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The U.S. frigate United States capturing H.B.M frigate Macedonian
Site Lines: The Mysterious Blue Lights
January 25, 2021
Ernest Borgnine: Breaking the Hollywood Mold
January 24, 2021
Artist’s rendering of the Connecticut Yankee Power Company Plant
Connecticut Yankee and Millstone: 48 Years of Nuclear Power
January 22, 2021
Mamie Eisenhower launches the USS Nautilus
The Launch of the USS Nautilus – Today in History: January 21
January 21, 2021
The New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, 1979
New Haven Coliseum Imploded – Today in History: January 20
January 20, 2021
Anna Louise James behind the soda fountain in the James' pharmacy
Anna Louise James Makes History with Medicine
January 19, 2021
Martin Luther King
Dr. King’s Dream Had Roots in Connecticut
January 18, 2021
Dr. Emma Irene Boardman
Dr. E. Irene Boardman Never Stopped Serving the Public
January 17, 2021
South view of the Hempstead House, New London
The Joshua Hempsted Diary: A Window into Colonial Connecticut
January 16, 2021
Placard commemorating the adoption of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The Fundamental Orders: Connecticut’s Role in Early Constitutional Government
January 15, 2021
Sam Colt
Sam Colt’s Funeral: The Day Hartford Stopped
January 14, 2021
“Appalling Calamity”: Loss of the Steamboat Lexington – Today in History: January 13, 1840
January 13, 2021
Portrait of James Williams from his biography
James Williams, More than Trinity College’s Janitor
January 12, 2021
Apostle of Peace: Elihu Burritt’s Quest for Universal Brotherhood
January 11, 2021
Airmen returning home, Bradley Field, Windsor Locks
Bradley Airport’s Military Origins
January 10, 2021
Thomas Jefferson and the Embargo of 1807
Connecticut and the Embargo Act of 1807
January 9, 2021
Governor Ella Grasso
The Education of Ella Grasso
January 8, 2021
Map of the West Indies, 1717
Connecticut and the West Indies: Sugar Spurs Trans-Atlantic Trade
January 7, 2021
Starr Mill
Buckling Up For Auto Safety
January 7, 2021
Drawing from Remarkable Apparitions, and Ghost-Stories, 1849
The Ghost Ship of New Haven Sets Sail Shrouded in Mystery
January 6, 2021
Ellis Ruley: Art that Celebrated Life
January 5, 2021
Lounsbury Elected Governor – Today in History: January 4
January 4, 2021
Maria Sanchez and Alejandro La Luz, Puerto Rican spokesmen, Hartford
Maria Sánchez, State Representative and Community Advocate
January 3, 2021
Hat-factory With Hose-house On The Hill, Danbury
Rivers of Outrage
January 3, 2021
Connecticut Turnpike Opens – Today in History: January 2
January 2, 2021
The Great Remedy. Hand-colored lithograph by E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
The Great Remedy: Picturing the Emancipation Proclamation
January 1, 2021
Illumination of Old State House, Hartford, December 31, 1900
A Turn-of-the-Century New Year’s Eve
December 31, 2020
Soldiers with cannons, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery
The Complicated Realities of Connecticut and the Civil War
December 30, 2020
Guy Hedlund playing Guy Frances in Fortune's Pet
Portland’s Guy Hedlund: Actor and Activist
December 29, 2020
The Living Actually Haunted Many Connecticut Taverns – Who Knew?
December 28, 2020
There’s No Place Like Home for the Designer of Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers – Who Knew?
December 27, 2020
A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors
December 26, 2020
Wagonload of Christmas trees, Hartford
O Christmas Tree!
December 25, 2020
A worker on the final assembly of a WASP engine
Pratt & Whitney Debuts Wasp Engine – Today in History: December 24
December 24, 2020
Detail of the South Part of New London Co.
The Rogerenes Leave Their Mark on Connecticut Society
December 23, 2020
Courtyard at New-Gate Prison
First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22
December 22, 2020
Spillway and bridge near Saville Dam, Barkhamsted
Barkhamsted Reservoir Construction Washes Away a Community
December 21, 2020
An example of two different Kewpie dolls
The Kewpies Buy A House in Westport
December 20, 2020
Girl’s Stays
Little Nutmeggers: Four Centuries of Children’s Clothes and Games
December 19, 2020
The Austin House
Hartford’s “Façade House”: The Unique Home of Chick Austin
December 18, 2020
Nurses getting water at Base Hospital No.21, Rouen. This unit supported the British Expeditionary Force
Ruth Hovey: Heroic Battlefield Nurse
December 17, 2020
Monumental Bronze Company
December 17, 2020
State Street and Old Ferry Landing, New London
New London’s Ferries: A Transportation Tradition
December 16, 2020
The Hartford Convention or Leap no leap
The Hartford Convention or Leap no Leap
December 15, 2020
Benjamin Silliman
First Recorded Fall of Meteorites in the United States – Today in History: December 14
December 14, 2020
German American Bund parade
Southbury Takes On the Nazis
December 13, 2020
Merritt Hat Factory, Danbury
Ending the Danbury Shakes: A Story of Workers’ Rights and Corporate Responsibility
December 12, 2020
Leroy Anderson at home in the 1950s
Leroy Anderson Composed Iconic Music in Woodbury
December 11, 2020
Poem relating the Beadle murders
The Beadle Family Murders – Today in History: December 11
December 11, 2020
Bevin Brothers Manufacturing Company
Bevin Brothers Helps Transform East Hampton into Belltown, USA
December 10, 2020

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