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Industrial scene where several men are working at a manufactured gas plant
Early Connecticut Gas Light Companies
September 26, 2023
Large building in the background across from a green lawn and walking path
Connecticut College for Women: The State’s First All-Female Institution of Higher Learning
September 12, 2023
Print of a factory
Illuminating Connecticut’s Past: The Bradley & Hubbard Legacy
September 11, 2023
Print of a parade of a two-faced Benedict Arnold through the streets of Philadelphia
New London’s Tradition of Burning Benedict Arnold…in Effigy – Who Knew?
September 6, 2023
Black and white photograph of a submarine draped in American flags on the water.
Electric Boat: From Innovation Trials to WWII Submarine Leadership
September 4, 2023
Section of a handwritten document
Black Loyalist Refugees: Toney Escapes During the Burning of Fairfield
September 1, 2023
Poster with a blue and red flag and several people underneath cheering
Army-Navy “E” Award Honors Connecticut for Support Against the Axis Powers
August 29, 2023
Fairground
A Fair to Remember in Brooklyn
August 25, 2023
A white sign in the foreground with a yellow house in the background
Miss Porter’s School in Farmington
August 24, 2023
Graphic of multi colored lines spinning around a gold circle that reads "National History Day 2024 Turning Points in History"
Connecticut History Day 2024: Turning Points in History
August 22, 2023
Photograph of a horse hitched to a wagon driven by a man with milk cans in the wagon.
Derby’s Osbornedale Farms, Frances Kellogg, and the Dairy Industry
July 28, 2023
Newspaper headline that reads "Girl Flyer Gets License, Aviation Writer's Paper Gets Story By Hard Work"
“Girl Pilot”: Mary Goodrich Jenson Breaks Barriers in Aviation and Journalism
July 21, 2023
A car with one person driving and a man with a camera standing on the back bumper and a woman kneeling on the roof with a camera.
Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White: “No Picture Was Unimportant to Her”
July 17, 2023
Dark colored cornish hen standing in grass with leaves
Jacques and Therese Makowsky and the Development of the Cornish Game Hen
July 11, 2023
Red onion surrounded by text
Oniontown: How Hard Work, Tall Tales, and Red Onions Built Wethersfield
June 22, 2023
Detail of a land point on a map labeled "Cornfield Point"
Cornfield Point: Old Saybrook’s Forgotten Scenic Alcove
June 20, 2023
Man sitting on a bench in front of a storefront
Jewish Farming Communities in Connecticut in the 19th and 20th Centuries
June 13, 2023
Lithograph depicting two steamboats crashing into each other with people jumping over the sides into the water. There is text at the bottom.
Disaster on the Sound: The Collision of the Steamboats Stonington and Narragansett
June 12, 2023
Tan colored bonnet with a green ribbon attached
Sophia Woodhouse Welles: Wethersfield’s World-Famous Bonnet Maker
June 7, 2023
Person facing towards the camera with classes, holding a pipe in one hand in their mouth. They are wearing a jacket
Alan L. Hart: Pioneer in Medicine and Transgender History
June 1, 2023
Two photos stitched together. Left photo is a three story house with an extension. Right photo is an Italianate Victorian building.
The Amos Bull House and Sterling Opera House: The First Connecticut Listings on the National Register of Historic Places – Who Knew?
May 22, 2023
A photograph of a rowing shell with 8 rowers sitting at attention and one coxswain on the water
Derby Day on the Housatonic
May 17, 2023
Newspaper clipping featuring text and an image of two men
Connecticut Discovered Lyme Disease – Who Knew?
May 15, 2023
Detail of a fire insurance map with outlined and labeled structures
Connecticut’s First Roman Catholic Church
May 4, 2023
Large room with many people sitting in rows facing a man speaking at a podium
Connecticut and the Armenian Genocide
April 24, 2023
Two picture books propped up against a shelf that has more books
Lillian Hoban: Beloved Illustrator of “I Can Read” Books
April 17, 2023
Man sitting at a piano, turned away from the piano, facing the photographer. He is wearing a white shirt. There is a potted plant to his left and lots of music books on the piano
James Merrill: Connecticut’s First Poet Laureate
April 11, 2023
Wooden sign in front of a tree reading "welcome to Banner Lodge"
Banner Lodge: A Vacation Playground for an Excluded Population
April 4, 2023
The 29th First to Enter Confederate Capital When It Surrenders – Today in History: April 3
April 3, 2023
Fuller Brush building following collapse of tower
Fuller Brush Tower Collapses – Today in History: March 31
March 31, 2023
Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children
March 30, 2023
Several people in a tobacco barn
Polish Tobacco Farmers in the Connecticut River Valley
March 29, 2023
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
March 28, 2023
Bursting of the Staffordville Reservoir
Bursting of the Staffordville Reservoir – Today in History: March 27
March 27, 2023
Southern New England Telephone Company Operator School
Connecticut’s First Female Telephone Operator – Today in History: March 24
March 24, 2023
Portrait painting of a man from the chest up wearing a red shirt, light colored coat, a hat, and glasses
George Laurence Nelson: Artist of Kent’s Seven Hearths
March 23, 2023
Lydia Sherman: The Derby Poisoner
March 22, 2023
Connecticut Agricultural College coeds gathering maple sap for war effort
A New Source of Farm Labor Crops Up in Wartime
March 21, 2023
Black and white profile portrait of a woman looking to the side.
Alice Hamilton: The Nation’s Leading Expert on Industrial Diseases
March 20, 2023
1956 St. Patrick’s Day parade
St. Patrick’s Day – Today in History: March 17
March 17, 2023
Hartford Street Railway Company Electricians, ca. 1907. Electrifying the railroad created new jobs
A Revolution in Horse Power: The Hartford & Wethersfield Horse Railroad Goes Electric
March 16, 2023
Photograph of a brown two story house with an attic and two chimneys. There is a white fence in front of the house
The Welcoming Warmth of Kent’s Seven Hearths
March 15, 2023
Clare Boothe Luce Changed Perceptions about Women in Business and Politics
March 14, 2023
Artwork of a ship close to shore with people in rowboats. There is a large flag protruding from the mast of the ship. There is text at the bottom of the image.
Connecticut’s French Connections
March 13, 2023
Page from a book with colorful illustrations of animals in a human town situation
The Road to Busytown: Richard Scarry’s Life in Fairfield County
March 10, 2023
The Trailblazing Bessye Bennett
March 9, 2023
Ella Grasso at the Danbury Fair, ca. 1975-80
America’s First Woman Governor: Ella Grasso, 1919-1981
March 8, 2023
Fields and pastures, Sharon
Turnpikes and Transportation in Sharon
March 7, 2023
Food Needed to Win the War Comes from Washington
March 6, 2023
Large ornate building
Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Captures the Gilded Age in Norwalk
March 3, 2023

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