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The Old State House, Hartford
Jackson v. Bulloch and the End of Slavery in Connecticut
February 24, 2021
National Biscuit Company graham crackers, circa 1915
Sylvester Graham: Progressive Advocate for Healthy Living
February 23, 2021
Fredi Washington and her sister Isabel, 1930s
Remembering Fredi Washington: Actress, Activist, and Journalist
February 22, 2021
Malcolm X in Hartford: “Our Mission is Not Violence but Freedom”
February 21, 2021
Portrait of Dr. Charles Johnson
Hartford’s Great Migration through Charles S. Johnson’s Eyes
February 20, 2021
Little Bethel AME Church, 44 Lake Avenue, Greenwich
Site Lines: Fortresses of Faith, Agents of Change
February 19, 2021
The Fugitive and the Hero
February 17, 2021
Constance Baker Motley: A Warrior for Justice
February 16, 2021
Vonsiatsky and the German American Bund in the 1940s
The Vonsiatsky Conspiracy Case
February 16, 2021
The birthplace of John Brown, Torrington
The Fight Over Slavery Reaches Torrington
February 15, 2021
Effect of Confederate shot on the USS Galena, 1862
Mystic-built USS Galena Part of Plan to Strengthen Union Navy
February 14, 2021
The Language of the Unheard: Racial Unrest in 20th-Century Hartford
February 13, 2021
History in a Heart
February 12, 2021
Advertisement from The Hartford Daily Courant, October 8, 1852
Augustus Washington (1820 – 1875): African American Daguerreotypist
February 11, 2021
Rockwell hardness tester
Rockwell Hardness Tester – Today in History: February 11
February 11, 2021
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stratton
Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren Wed – Today in History: February 10
February 10, 2021
Laboring in the Shade
February 9, 2021
Plan of the City of New Haven
The Successes and Struggles of New Haven Entrepreneur William Lanson
February 8, 2021
The Blizzard of 1978
Blizzard Halts Mail Delivery – Today in History: February 7
February 7, 2021
DN-1: The US Navy’s First Airship
February 6, 2021
Richard Yates
Trouble in the Connecticut Suburbs: Revolutionary Road
February 5, 2021
Reverend James Pennington: A Voice for Freedom
February 4, 2021
Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses, Bridgeport, photograph ca. 1998
Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses
February 4, 2021
Portrait detail of Frederick Douglass
“An Admirable Portrait” of Frederick Douglass
February 3, 2021
Ruins of commercial buildings on Grand Street, Waterbury
Waterbury Burns – Today in History: February 2
February 2, 2021
Hazard Powder Company gunpowder barrel
One-Legged Stools – Who Knew?
February 1, 2021
Ruins of the Upper Dam of the Kohanza Reservoir in Danbury
Frozen Reservoir Destroys Danbury – Today in History: January 31
January 31, 2021
Valley Forge, 1777
A Connecticut Slave in George Washington’s Army
January 30, 2021
A Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean by John Ledyard
First General Copyright Law – Today in History: January 29
January 29, 2021
Fire at G. Fox & Co., Main Street, Hartford
G. Fox & Co. Destroyed by Fire – Today in History: January 29
January 29, 2021
Case Paper Mill, circa 1925
Andover Looks Good on Paper
January 28, 2021
Hoffman Wall Paper Company in Hartford
Tradition and Transformation Define Hartford’s Jewish Community
January 27, 2021
Bryant Electric Items from the 1930s
The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in Bridgeport: The Case of Bryant Electric
January 26, 2021
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

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February 24: Hartford’s First African American Policeman & the First of the Famed Tuskegee Airmen.

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