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Child Labor in Connecticut
April 18, 2021
Carl Sandburg, Poet from the Grassroots, Reaches Connecticut Audiences
April 17, 2021
Blacksmith Isaac Glasko Challenges the State Constitution
April 16, 2021
The Influence of Woman, Harper's Weekly, 1862
Bridgeport Women Answer the Call – Today in History: April 15
April 15, 2021
Witamy to Little Poland! – A Thriving Neighborhood in New Britain
April 14, 2021
Navy-Yard, Washington
Colt’s Submarine Battery – Today in History: April 13
April 13, 2021
Hartford Whalers Logo
The Hartford Whalers: Connecticut’s Last Major League Sports Franchise
April 12, 2021
Battling Bat Battalino: One of Hartford’s Heroes
April 11, 2021
Litchfield’s Revolutionary War Soldiers’ Tree
April 10, 2021
Celebrating Civil War Men and Women – Today in History: April 9
April 9, 2021
The Girl in White, movie advertisement starring June Allyson as Emily Dunning Barringer
New Canaan’s Pioneering Female Physician
April 8, 2021
The “Father of American Football” is Born – Today in History: April 7
April 7, 2021
African American baseball team, Danbury
Swinging for the Fences: Connecticut’s Black Baseball Greats
April 6, 2021
The Thimble Islands – Little Islands with a Big History
April 5, 2021
20th-century photograph of shad nets
A Tale of Shad, the State Fish
April 4, 2021
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks
Bradley International Airport Transforms Windsor Locks into Regional Gateway
April 3, 2021
Vera Buch Weisbord’s “Radical” Life
April 2, 2021
Quinnipiac: The People of the Long Water Land
April 1, 2021
Advertising card of the Dr. Warner’s Caroline Corset
From Bombs to Bras: World War I Conservation Measures Transform the Lives of Women
March 31, 2021
Litchfield Law School
The Litchfield Law School: Connecticut’s First Law School
March 30, 2021
The City of Hartford steamboat after collision with railroad bridge
Steamboat Accident – Today in History: March 29
March 29, 2021
St. Anthony Comstock, the Village nuisance
Connecticut and the Comstock Law
March 28, 2021
Home Economics Club, Hartford Public High School
Much Good Might be Accomplished: Catharine Esther Beecher and the Pursuit of Domestic Economy
March 27, 2021
Postcard of New London Bridge on Thames River, New London, Conn.
I-95 Reaches New London
March 26, 2021
Joseph Alsop - Hennepin County Library
Joseph Alsop: Cunning Political Columnist of Mid-Century America
March 25, 2021
Anna E. Dickinson
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson at Touro Hall – Today in History: March 24
March 24, 2021
Joseph Taborsky and the “Mad Dog Killings”
March 23, 2021
An Artist and Her Books: Amelia Watson, 1856–1934
March 22, 2021
J. Frederick Kelly: Constructing Connecticut’s Architectural History
March 21, 2021
Chamberlin Mill: A Woodstock Survivor
March 20, 2021
The 29th Leaves for War – Today in History: March 19
March 19, 2021
Triceratops prorsus skull
Paleontologist Othniel Marsh dies – Today in History: March 18
March 18, 2021
More than two dozen veterans of the Ninth Regiment gathered for a reunion at Savin Rock in West Haven
Fighting Sons of Erin: Connecticut’s Irish Regiment in the Civil War
March 17, 2021
St. Patrick, the Apostle of Ireland
The Wearing of the Green: 19th-century Prints of Irish Subjects by Hartford’s Kellogg Brothers
March 17, 2021
View of Old Whitney Hall (foreground) and the Storrs Congregational Church
Connecticut Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home
March 16, 2021
Unitarian Church, Brooklyn
Celia Burleigh, Connecticut’s First Female Minister
March 15, 2021
Dr. Mary Moody sitting on her front porch
Dr. Mary B. Moody Challenges Victorian Mores About Women in Medicine
March 13, 2021
Kimberly Mansion, Glastonbury
The Smith Sisters, Their Cows, and Women’s Rights in Glastonbury
March 12, 2021
Waterbury, Bank Street. After the Great Blizzard
The Blizzard of 1888 – Today in History: March 11
March 11, 2021
Photograph of Hilda Crosby Standish
Hilda Crosby Standish, Early Proponent of Women’s Reproductive Health
March 10, 2021
Patent Model for the Manufacture of Rubber Fabrics, Charles Goodyear, 1844
Charles Goodyear’s Machine for Making Rubber Fabrics
March 9, 2021
Advertisement for the Horton Mfg. Co.
The Telescoping Fishing Rod – Today in History: March 8
March 8, 2021
Cover of a patriotic song dedicated to Lincoln's secretary of the navy Gideon Welles
Gideon Welles, US Secretary of the Navy and Lincoln’s “Neptune”
March 7, 2021
Elihu Burritt
Elihu Burritt Dies – Today in History: March 6
March 6, 2021
Looking Back: Tempest Tossed, the Story of Isabella Beecher Hooker
March 5, 2021
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Rally – Today in History: March 5
March 5, 2021
Josephine Bennett and daughters Frances and Katherine
Hartford’s City Mother, Josephine Bennett
March 4, 2021
Illustration of a woman on horse, woodcut
Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journey through Colonial Connecticut
March 3, 2021
View of Wadsworth Street in 1877
The Lives of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus Told Through their Loving Letters
March 2, 2021
Martha A. Parsons House
A Pioneering Woman in Business: Martha Parsons of Enfield
March 1, 2021

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