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American Cookery, or, The Art of Dressing Viands, Fish, Poultry, and Vegetables by Amelia Simmons
Amelia Simmons Adds a Uniquely American Flavor to Cooking
November 27, 2020
Broadside for Pine Apple cheese patented in 1810
The Story of Pineapple Cheese
November 26, 2020
Beatrice Fox Auerbach meets with the department heads of her store, G. Fox & Company
Beatrice Fox Auerbach: Retail Pioneer Led Iconic Family Department Store
November 25, 2020
Detail from A mapp of New England by John Seller
Lion Gardiner Helps to Fortify Early Old Saybrook
November 24, 2020
Connecticut River and Mt. Holyoke Range from Mountain Park, Connecticut
The Connecticut Valley Authority That Never Was
November 23, 2020
Replicas of the 1636 church and house built by Reverend Thomas Hooker
What’s a Puritan, and Why Didn’t They Stay in Massachusetts?
November 22, 2020
Wood-cut representing Alexis St. Martin's wound
The Father of Gastric Physiology Born – Today in History: November 21
November 21, 2020
Pierre Lallement and the Modern-Day Pedal Bicycle – Today in History: November 20
November 20, 2020
Hiram Bingham
Hiram Bingham III: Machu Picchu Explorer and Politician
November 19, 2020
A Connecticut Nazi Spy Has a Change of Heart
November 19, 2020
Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer
Nathaniel Palmer discovers Antarctica – Today in History: November 18
November 18, 2020
Williams Shaving Cream and Aqua Velva ad, ca. 1929
The Aqua Velva State – Today in History: November 17
November 17, 2020
Fayerweather Island Lighthouse, Bridgeport, Connecticut
Kate Moore: Lighthouse Keeper and Coast Guard Heroine
November 16, 2020
Oyster grounds, Western Division; Town of Westport
The Battle for Cockenoe Island
November 15, 2020
Copy of Map of Windsor, shewing the parishes, the roads, and houses by Seth Pease
Seth Pease Surveys New Lands
November 14, 2020
Kaman Aircraft, 1949
Helicopters, Guitars, and Guide Dogs: The Revolutionary Mind of Charles Kaman
November 13, 2020
An Oyster Supper
Any Month with an “R” in It: Eating Oysters in Connecticut
November 12, 2020
Alexander Calder in studio, Roxbury, 1973
Calder in Connecticut: World-Famous Artist Called Roxbury Home
November 11, 2020
A front view of Dartmouth College, with the Chapel, & Hall
Eleazar Wheelock: Preacher, Dartmouth College Founder
November 10, 2020
Foreign Mission School, Cornwall
An Experiment in Evangelization: Cornwall’s Foreign Mission School
November 10, 2020
Thomas Dodd (at podium), Nuremberg trial, ca., 1945-46
Connecticut Lawyer Prosecutes Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg
November 9, 2020
Separable Attachment Plug
First US Detachable Electric Plug – Today in History: November 8
November 8, 2020
The “Red Scare” in Connecticut
November 7, 2020
John F. Kennedy campaigning in New Haven, 1960
The Kennedys in Connecticut – Today in History: November 6
November 6, 2020
Two A-10 Thunderbolt IIs from the Connecticut Air National Guard's 103rd Fighter Wing fly in formation behind a KC-135
Connecticut’s “Yankee Watch” Squadron Protects the Skies Here and Abroad
November 5, 2020
Drawing (on) the Connecticut Landscape: Benjamin Hutchins Coe Teaches Americans the Democratic Art
November 5, 2020
John Warner Barber, Public square or green, in New Haven
A Separate Place: The New Haven Colony, 1638-1665
November 4, 2020
A 1761 letter by Wheelock describing the progress of his first female students, Amie and Miriam. Source: “The Occom Circle,” n.d. Dartmouth College.
Amy Johnson: A Mohegan Woman Who Survived Colonialism
November 4, 2020
Election day, Main Street, Hartford
When Elections in Hartford Were a Piece of Cake
November 3, 2020
Picking Tobacco in the Connecticut River Valley
Literacy Tests and the Right To Vote
November 2, 2020
Man wearing a hat with card stating "Bread or Revolution"
How the Wobblies Won Free Speech
November 1, 2020
Results of Halloween pranks, Windsor
Past Hallowe’en Pranks Bemused Some and Frustrated Others
October 31, 2020
Charles De Wolf Brownell, Charter Oak
Hiding the Charter: Images of Joseph Wadsworth’s Legendary Action
October 31, 2020
State Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Norwich, Conn.
The White Plague: Progressive-Era Tuberculosis Treatments in Connecticut
October 30, 2020
Witchcraft in Connecticut
October 29, 2020
Birthplace of Seth Thomas
Seth Thomas Works Around the Clock in Wolcott
October 28, 2020
Currier & Ives, The drunkards progress. From the first glass to the grave
The Temperance Movement in Connecticut – Today in History: October 27
October 27, 2020
American Actor Changes 19th-Century Theater – Who Knew?
October 27, 2020
Igor Sikorsky in the VS-300
Igor Sikorsky Dies – Today in History: October 26
October 26, 2020
Congressional pugilists
Roger Griswold: A Governor Not Afraid To Challenge Authority
October 25, 2020
Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam
Goodspeed Opera House Opens – Today in History: October 24
October 24, 2020
Hartford and New Haven: A Tale of Two Capitals
October 23, 2020
Map detail from Turnpikes of Connecticut,
Oxford: From Paths to Pikes
October 22, 2020
Yung Wing
Avon’s Educational and Cultural Pioneer
October 21, 2020
Westport Country Playhouse
Broadway Comes to Westport
October 20, 2020
Sloop-of-War Ship’s Figurehead Lands at State Capitol
October 19, 2020
Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library. "Take a giant step." New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Hartford’s Louis Peterson, Groundbreaking African American Playwright
October 19, 2020
View on the Erie Canal
Benjamin Wright: The Father of American Civil Engineering
October 18, 2020
Gravestones, Old Burying Ground, Hartford
The Art of Burying the Dead: Exploring Connecticut’s Historic Cemeteries
October 17, 2020
Sandbagging at the Stanley P. Rockwell Co
The Flood That We Forget: October 15 and 16, 1955
October 16, 2020

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