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Alan L. Hart: Pioneer in Medicine and Transgender History
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The Amos Bull House and Sterling Opera House: The First Connecticut Listings on the National Register of Historic Places – Who Knew?
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Connecticut Discovered Lyme Disease – Who Knew?
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Connecticut’s First Roman Catholic Church
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Connecticut and the Armenian Genocide
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Lillian Hoban: Beloved Illustrator of “I Can Read” Books
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James Merrill: Connecticut’s First Poet Laureate
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Banner Lodge: A Vacation Playground for an Excluded Population
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The 29th First to Enter Confederate Capital When It Surrenders – Today in History: April 3
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Fuller Brush Tower Collapses – Today in History: March 31
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Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children
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Polish Tobacco Farmers in the Connecticut River Valley
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Bursting of the Staffordville Reservoir – Today in History: March 27
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Connecticut’s First Female Telephone Operator – Today in History: March 24
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George Laurence Nelson: Artist of Kent’s Seven Hearths
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Lydia Sherman: The Derby Poisoner
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A New Source of Farm Labor Crops Up in Wartime
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Alice Hamilton: The Nation’s Leading Expert on Industrial Diseases
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St. Patrick’s Day – Today in History: March 17
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A Revolution in Horse Power: The Hartford & Wethersfield Horse Railroad Goes Electric
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The Welcoming Warmth of Kent’s Seven Hearths
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Clare Boothe Luce Changed Perceptions about Women in Business and Politics
March 14, 2023
Connecticut’s French Connections
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The Road to Busytown: Richard Scarry’s Life in Fairfield County
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The Trailblazing Bessye Bennett
March 9, 2023
America’s First Woman Governor: Ella Grasso, 1919-1981
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Turnpikes and Transportation in Sharon
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Food Needed to Win the War Comes from Washington
March 6, 2023
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Captures the Gilded Age in Norwalk
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The Lyman Allyn Opens – Today in History: March 2
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Actress Gwen Reed Best Remembered for Dedication to Childhood Literacy
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William Gillette’s Last Performance – Today in History: February 27
February 27, 2023
Race Restrictive Covenants in Property Deeds
February 24, 2023
The Socially Dynamic Drumlin of Foss Hill
February 23, 2023
Southington Cutlery Company: From Silverware to Hardware
February 22, 2023
The Sea in their Blood: The Portuguese in New London County
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Connecticut’s Only US President – Who Knew?
February 20, 2023
Bethany: Small-town Perseverance in the Face of Growing Industrialization
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Discovering the Mysterious Identity of the “Kent Limner”
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James Lindsey Smith Takes the Underground Railroad to Connecticut
February 15, 2023
The Open and Fortified Country of the Human Heart: A Victorian Lady’s View of Love
February 14, 2023
Two Cornwall Firms Part of Famed Salisbury Iron District
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Sarah Boone: First Connecticut Black Woman to Receive Patent
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Alexander Calder and Making Art Political
February 9, 2023
Joel T. Case and the Victorianization of Bristol’s Federal Hill
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Charles Ethan Porter, Portrait of a 19th-Century African American Painter
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