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A Muster Ceremony, New Haven Green
The First Battle of Bull Run: Connecticut Troops Stand Firm When the Battle Turns Against Them
July 21, 2019
Entrance to Steeplechase Island, Bridgeport
A Unique Island Attraction in Bridgeport
July 20, 2019
Samuel Colt…and Sewing Machines?
July 19, 2019
Testing the camping equipment on The Gunnery’s campus in Washington
Reading, Writing, and the Great Outdoors: Frederick Gunn’s School Transforms Victorian-era Education
July 18, 2019
Detail of Warwick patent copy by John Winthrop, Jr., 1662
The Charter of 1662
July 18, 2019
Oliver Ellsworth
Senator Oliver Ellsworth’s Judiciary Act
July 17, 2019
Up from the Ashes: Fire at the Meriden Britannia Company – Today in History: July 16
July 16, 2019
Connecticut State Park Picture Plan
Preserving Connecticut’s Natural Beauty: Connecticut’s First State Parks
July 16, 2019
Candlewood Lake construction
Creating Candlewood Lake – Today in History: July 15
July 15, 2019
James Lukens McConaughy sworn in as Governor by Chief Justice William M. Maltbie
Did You Know a Connecticut Governor Was a US Spy?
July 14, 2019
Street sign for Gallows Lane
Gallows Lane and the Execution of Barnett Davenport
July 14, 2019
A Revolution On Two Wheels: Columbia Bicycles
July 13, 2019
The Farmington Canal near Mount Carmel in Hamden
New England’s Grand Ambition: The Farmington Canal
July 13, 2019
Connecticut Votes for Women
Connecticut Suffragists Appeal to the President – Today in History: July 12
July 12, 2019
Bridgeport’s Catastrophic 1911 Train Wreck
July 11, 2019
Batman and the Outsiders #1, cover art by Jim Aparo
Drawn to Superheroes
July 10, 2019
Eight Mile River
Continuity and Change along the Eightmile River
July 9, 2019
Erector set
Erector Set Patented – Today in History: July 8
July 8, 2019
Burning of Fairfield
British Burn Fairfield – Today in History: July 7
July 7, 2019
The Hartford Circus Fire
July 6, 2019
The Barnum & Bailey Greatest Show on Earth. Miss Rose Meers, the Greatest living lady rider
P. T. Barnum: An Entertaining Life
July 5, 2019
Advertisement for July 4th balloon flight
Silas Brooks, Balloonist
July 4, 2019
Margaret Rudkin
Pepperidge Farm Opens Bakery – Today in History: July 4
July 4, 2019
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born – Today in History: July 3
July 3, 2019
Mohegan Sacred Sites: Moshup’s Rock
July 2, 2019
1938 ad for Sperry Topsider
Boat Shoes Have Ties to Connecticut – Who Knew?
July 1, 2019
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, 2019
Merritt Parkway, New York to Connecticut, 1941
Merritt Parkway Creates Scenic Gateway to New England
June 29, 2019
The Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut
June 28, 2019
Noble Jerome’s Clock Patent Model
June 27, 2019
Postcard of Plant B, Pierson's Greenhouses, Cromwell
The Rose King of America Transformed Cromwell’s Landscape
June 27, 2019
Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy
June 26, 2019
Two Days After Marriage
Grounds for Divorce – Who Knew?
June 25, 2019
Detail from an 1863 broadside
Henry Ward Beecher, a Preacher with Political Clout
June 24, 2019
Bridge on the grounds of Gillette's Castle
A Public Responsibility: Conservation and Development in the 20th Century
June 23, 2019
General Mansfield's uniform epaulets
One of the Honored Dead: General J. K. F. Mansfield
June 22, 2019
J. P. Morgan’s Connecticut Roots
June 21, 2019
North Haven: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s
June 19, 2019
Amos Doolittle, The looking glass for 1787. A house divided against itself cannot stand
The War Connecticut Hated
June 18, 2019
A worker cutting ivory
Ivory Cutting: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Industry
June 17, 2019
View of the Colt Factory from Dutch Point
The Colt Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company
June 16, 2019
Machine for crushing stone, E.W. Blake
The Blake Rock Crusher – Today in History: June 15
June 15, 2019
Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford
Where Mr. Twain and Mrs. Stowe Built Their Dream Houses
June 14, 2019
Essex-Lyme ferry
Ferry Boats a Way of Life in Early Connecticut
June 13, 2019
The Platt Amendment – Today in History: June 12
June 12, 2019
A US Army Air Force Waco CG-4A-WO glider
Daring World War II Escape of a Bethany Soldier
June 11, 2019
The 1909 seven passenger limousine
The Hardware City Could’ve Been the Motor City – Who Knew?
June 11, 2019
Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford
Hooker’s Journey to Hartford
June 10, 2019
USS George Washington (SSBN 589)
USS George Washington Launched – Today in History: June 9
June 9, 2019
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt Performs in Hartford – Today in History: June 8
June 8, 2019

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