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Igor Sikorsky in the VS-300
Igor Sikorksy 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
Vietnam Protests in Connecticut
October 15, 2020
New Haven: What Was Everyday Life Like During the Civil War?
October 14, 2020
Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company
Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company Puts Best Foot Forward
October 13, 2020
Martha Graham Dance Company, 1937 - The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Library Digital Collections
Hartford’s Anna Sokolow, Modern Dance Pioneer
October 12, 2020
Improved Centrifugal Governor
Portland Improves the Steam Engine
October 11, 2020
Howard Chandler Christy, Signing of the Constitution
The US Constitutional Convention: America Forms a Bicameral Legislature
October 10, 2020
John F. Weir, Roger Sherman, ca. 1902
Roger Sherman, Revolutionary and Dedicated Public Servant
October 10, 2020
Henry Deming: Mayor of Hartford and New Orleans
October 9, 2020
New England burst its boilers off Essex, October 8, 1833
The Steamboat New England: “The shock was dreadful” – Today in History: October 8
October 8, 2020
Yale charter, October 9, 1701
When Old Saybrook Was a College Town
October 7, 2020
Vegetable cart in Charles Street Market, Hartford
Hartford’s “Little Italy”
October 6, 2020
Armsmear, Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford
Elizabeth Jarvis Colt Born – Today in History: October 5
October 5, 2020
Smoke billows from Hartford Hospital
The 1961 Hartford Hospital Fire
October 5, 2020
The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Tablet
October 4, 2020
Pamphlet, 1692
Accidental Shooting Leads to Witchcraft Conviction – Today in History: October 3
October 3, 2020
Capital Punishment in Connecticut: Changing Views
October 2, 2020
Pierre Eugene Du Simetière, Silas Deane. Member of Congress
The Rise and Fall of Silas Deane, American Patriot
October 2, 2020
Amusement Park Rides, Danbury Fair
The Danbury Fair, 1869-1981
October 1, 2020
Indian Hill Cemetery and the Vernacular of the Times
September 30, 2020
Pulling Down the Statue of King George II, New York City
Mariann Wolcott and Ralph Earl – Opposites Come Together and Make History
September 29, 2020
Morton Biskind Warned the World About DDT
September 28, 2020
University of Connecticut, Commencement
UConn and the Evolution of a Public University
September 28, 2020
Evelyn Beatrice Longman Commemorates the Working Class
September 27, 2020
When the NFL Played in Connecticut: The Hartford Blues
September 26, 2020
A Monument Memorializes the Fallen
September 25, 2020
President Richard Nixon visits Hartford
The 42-Day Income Tax
September 24, 2020
Gerald MacGuire and the Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt
September 23, 2020
Thomas Hooker: Connecticut’s Founding Father
September 22, 2020
Piling sandbags, Colt dike
The Hurricane of 1938 Rocks Connecticut
September 22, 2020
Rescue Scene, Hurricane, September 1938
The Great Hurricane of 1938 – Today in History: September 21
September 21, 2020
Red Cross Emergency Ambulance Station
The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918
September 20, 2020
Connecticut’s Chickamauga Tree: An Investigation
September 19, 2020
Climax Fuse Company, 1899
Avon Industry: From Underground to Outerspace
September 18, 2020
Battle Flag Parade, Hartford, Connecticut, September 17, 1879
A Day of Celebration – Today in History: September 17
September 17, 2020
Enoch Smith Woods, Colonel Thomas Knowlton
Thomas Knowlton: A Small Town’s National Hero
September 16, 2020
Red Cross Headquarters, Hurricane of 1944
The Great Atlantic Hurricane Hits Connecticut
September 14, 2020
FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive poster of Victor Manuel Gerena
Financing a Free Puerto Rico: The Great Wells Fargo Heist of 1983
September 13, 2020
Second Congregational Church, Greenwich
Bucket Brigade to the Rescue – Today in History: September 12
September 12, 2020

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