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Featured Stories from CT History

Colt Park and the Magical Summer of 1976
July 10, 2020
Joseph Hopkins Twichell: Asylum Hill’s Religious Leader and Mark Twain’s Closest Friend
July 10, 2020
Sheff v. O’Neill – Today in History: July 9
July 9, 2020
Hartford Jai Alai players, 1976
“The Basque Game in Town”: The Heyday of Jai Alai in Connecticut
July 9, 2020
Jonathan Edwards’ Famous Sermon – Today in History: July 8
July 8, 2020
Detail from A Map of the Connecticut Western Reserve, from actual Survey, surveyed by Seth Pease
New Connecticut on Lake Erie: Connecticut’s Western Reserve
July 7, 2020
The Origins and Enduring Legacy of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre
July 6, 2020
Map of Farmington and Avon, indicating the Farmington Canal and its feeders
Farmington Canal’s Ground-Breaking – Today in History: July 4
July 4, 2020
Monument to Capewell, the inventor of the famous horseshoe nail
Horseshoe Nail Capital of the World – Who Knew?
July 3, 2020
Liberty Pole marker on East Street North, Goshen
Hidden Nearby: Goshen’s Liberty Pole
July 2, 2020
An Eccentric Middletown Polymath and Fossil Collector: Dr. Joseph Barratt
July 2, 2020
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Most Famous American in the World
July 1, 2020
Furniture Caster Patented – Today in History: June 30
June 30, 2020
Firemen work to douse the last flames of a fire that swept through Gulliver's Restaurant
Deadly Fire at Gulliver’s – Today in History: June 30
June 30, 2020
Connecticut Attorney General John H. Light and His Fight for Woman’s Suffrage
June 29, 2020
Map shows the neighborhood where the murder took place
Murder on the Map: The Mysterious Death of Captain George M. Colvocoresses
June 27, 2020
The Cottage Girl by Nancy Hale a pupil of Sarah Pierce's school
Educator Sarah Pierce Born – Today in History: June 26
June 26, 2020
Two Days After Marriage
Grounds for Divorce – Who Knew?
June 25, 2020
Henry Ward Beecher, ca. 1866
Henry Ward Beecher Born – Today in History: June 24
June 24, 2020
Group photo of Famous Artists School Faculty
Instruction by Mail: The Famous Artists School
June 22, 2020
Early Civil Rights and Cultural Pioneers:The Easton Family
June 21, 2020
Jimmy Piersall’s Public Struggle with Mental Illness
June 18, 2020
Connecticut’s War Governor, William A. Buckingham
June 18, 2020
Oakdale Musical Theatre, Wallingford
The Story of the Oakdale Makes Great Theater
June 17, 2020
Mark Twain's Interactive Scrap Book
Samuel L. Clemens Receives Scrap-book Patent – Who Knew?
June 16, 2020
Eolia, Harkness Memorial State Park, Waterford
Harkness Memorial Park Offers a Glimpse into Early 20th Century Wealth
June 16, 2020
Votes for A Woman: Sara Buek Crawford
June 15, 2020
Richard Brooks, Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell Launched – Today in History: June 13
June 13, 2020
Flying Machine patent
Flying High with Early Dirigible
June 12, 2020
Leffingwell Inn, Norwichtown
Christopher Leffingwell Born – Today in History: June 11
June 11, 2020
Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford
Hooker’s Journey to Hartford
June 10, 2020
Thomas Lee House and Little Boston School, 1935, East Lyme
A Connecticut Home That Dates Back to the 1600s!
June 9, 2020
Ensign Merle J. Smith, Jr.
Academy Graduates First African American Student – Today in History: June 8
June 8, 2020
Dr. C. Lee Buxton and Mrs. Estelle Griswold
Griswold v. Connecticut – Today in History: June 7
June 7, 2020
Adeline Gray at the Pioneer Parachute Company, Manchester
First Human Test of a Nylon Parachute – Today in History: June 6
June 6, 2020
Title page of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom’s Cabin Begins Serialization – Today in History: June 5
June 5, 2020
The Hartford Insurance Investigator With the Action-Packed Expense Account
June 4, 2020
The Lemon Law – Today in History: June 4
June 4, 2020
Mayor Insists Air Terminal to Aid Idle
“Something to Show for Our Work”: Building Brainard Airport
June 3, 2020
Connecticut Supreme Court
Parking Authority Created in New Haven – Today in History: June 2
June 2, 2020
Helen Keller
Helen Keller Dies – Today in History: June 1
June 1, 2020
First Meetinghouse in Hartford
The Free Consent of the People: Thomas Hooker and the Fundamental Orders
May 31, 2020
A 1908 reenactment of Thomas Hooker’s 1636 landing in Hartford
Colonial Revival Movement Sought Stability during Time of Change
May 30, 2020
Mary Hall: Connecticut’s First Female Attorney
May 29, 2020
Noah Webster the schoolmaster of the republic, ca. 1891
Noah Webster and the Dream of a Common Language
May 28, 2020
Hometown Hero: Wallingford Remembers Stanley Budleski
May 28, 2020
Josephine Bennett: Hartford’s City Mother
May 27, 2020
The Minute Man, Westport CT
May 26, 2020
An English woodcut of a Witch
Alse Young Executed for Witchcraft – Today in History: May 26
May 26, 2020
The Trailblazing Bessye Bennett
May 25, 2020

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