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Featured Stories from CT History

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
Cornerstone Set – Today in History: May 25
May 25, 2020
Connecticut’s Capitol Building – Inside and Out
May 24, 2020
Detail of Guilford and Long Island
Stealth Attack from Guilford Launched – Today in History: May 23
May 23, 2020
The Black Panther Party in Connecticut: Community Survival Programs
May 22, 2020
Setting Speed Limits – Today in History: May 21
May 21, 2020
Delivery truck for The Lustron Home
Metal Homes for the Atomic Age
May 20, 2020
Abraham Davenport
Dark Day – Today in History: May 19
May 19, 2020
Courtyard at New-Gate Prison
New-Gate Prison Breakout – Today in History: May 18
May 18, 2020
Comstock covered bridge
The Comstock Bridge Brings East Hampton Residents Together
May 17, 2020
Moodus, Town of East Haddam
Largest Earthquake in Connecticut – Today in History: May 16
May 16, 2020
Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Hartford
The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, Hartford
May 15, 2020
Columbia Bicycle Model 105, 1903
Albert Pope Pioneered Bicycles for Women
May 14, 2020
Jacob Schick Invents the Electric Razor – Today in History: May 13
May 13, 2020
A plan of the first Society in Lebanon
Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking
May 13, 2020
Katharine Hepburn’s Love Affair (with Connecticut)
May 12, 2020
Somoff Cottage
A Russian Village Retreat in Southbury
May 11, 2020
First Woman Elected as US State Governor Born – Today in History: May 10
May 10, 2020
Front view of John Browns birthplace, Torrington
Hidden Nearby: John Brown’s Torrington Birthplace
May 9, 2020
The First Yale Unit: How U.S. Navy Aviation Began
May 8, 2020
Sloan Wilson, the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, is Born – Today in History: May 8
May 8, 2020
Elizabeth W. Coe Demands the Right of Jury Service
May 7, 2020
Edwin Land Inventor of the Polaroid Born – Today in History: May 7
May 7, 2020
Interior West Cornwall Covered Bridge
West Cornwall Covered Bridge: An Icon of New England Craftsmanship
May 6, 2020
New York and New Haven Railroad train bound from Manhattan
Misread Signal Leads to Deadly South Norwalk Train Wreck – Who Knew?
May 6, 2020
David Hotchkiss House, ca. 1980
The Prospect Green as a Historical Narrative
May 5, 2020
The Newsies Strike Back
May 4, 2020
A First Amendment Lesson: Weaver High Students Teach Their Elders
May 3, 2020
Exterior of the Connecticut State Building
Take Me to the Fair: Connecticut Exhibits at the International Expositions
May 3, 2020
Borough of Stonington
May 2, 2020
Crisis Management during the American Civil War: The Hartford Soldiers’ Aid Society
May 2, 2020
The figure of the Indians' fort or palizado in New England and the manner of the destroying it by Captayne Underhill and Captayne Mason
Connecticut Declares War Against the Pequot – Today in History: May 1
May 1, 2020
Lucy Gallup Eldredge
A Connecticut Painter Finds His Voice through Colonial Folk Art
May 1, 2020
First American Medicine Patent – Today in History: April 30
April 30, 2020
A receipt for two prints of John Trumbull paintings
Jeremiah Wadsworth, “foremost in every enterprise”
April 29, 2020
Charter Oak Bridge construction, ca. 1941
Last State Highway Toll Paid – Today in History: April 28
April 28, 2020
Connecticut River, 2011
The Connecticut River
April 28, 2020
USS Tullibee
USS Tullibee – Today in History: April 27
April 27, 2020
Fight at Ridgefield
Battle at Ridgefield – Today in History: April 27
April 27, 2020
Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted Born – Today in History: April 26
April 26, 2020
Governor Tryon's Expedition to Danbury
The British Attack Danbury – Today in History: April 26
April 26, 2020
An Orderly and Decent Government
April 25, 2020

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