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Early 20th-Century Immigration in Connecticut
Immigration to Connecticut in the early 20th century continued much…
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Late 19th-Century Immigration in Connecticut
Immigration to Connecticut in the second half of the 19th…
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Sylvester Poli, Negotiating Cultural Politics in an Age of Immigration
This Italian-born businessman and New England theater magnate also helped the working poor in New Haven’s immigrant communities at the turn of the 20th century.
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Early 19th-Century Immigration in Connecticut
Numerous factors contributed to the growth of Connecticut in the…
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Tradition and Transformation Define Hartford’s Jewish Community
From the mid-1800s to the present, Jews have called Connecticut’s capital city home and enriched it with their cultural traditions and civic spirit.
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Yung Wing, the Chinese Educational Mission, and Transnational Connecticut
In their respective tragic but inspiring final American acts, Yung and the Mission reflect the worst and best of the Chinese Exclusion Act era.
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Connecticut and American Impressionism
French Impressionists celebrated their new modern lives, but American Impressionists looked instead to a New England countryside like that in Connecticut for evidence of a stable, timeless order beneath the dazzle of the ephemeral.
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Where the Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak
Authoring and illustrating dozens of books, such as ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ and ‘In the Night Kitchen,’ Maurice Sendak redefined children’s literature throughout the 20th century.
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Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Originated in Stamford
In 1873, Charles H. Phillips patented Milk of Magnesia and his company produced the popular antacid and laxative in Stamford, Connecticut, until 1976.
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The “Red Scare” in Connecticut
The Palmer Raids, launched in Connecticut in 1919, were part of the paranoia known as the “Red Scare” that resulted in numerous civil rights violations committed by law enforcement officials.
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West Indians in Hartford
A significant wave of immigration to the United States from the West Indies began in the 1940s, spurred by labor shortages during World War II.
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Connecticut History Day 2022: Debate & Diplomacy in History: Successes, Failures, Consequences
Both successes and failures in the execution of debate and diplomacy lay behind some of the most monumental events in Connecticut’s history.
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Orville Platt Helps Define International Relations after the Spanish-American War
Orville Platt was a powerful Republican senator from Washington, Connecticut. He presented the Platt Amendment to Congress.
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Witamy to Little Poland! – A Thriving Neighborhood in New Britain
A bustling ethnic neighborhood along Broad Street in New Britain is home to such a vibrant Polish population that it earned the nickname “Little Poland.”
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Fighting Sons of Erin: Connecticut’s Irish Regiment in the Civil War
Men with names like O’Brien, Kennedy, Mahoney, Murphy, Donnelly, Fitzpatrick, and Sullivan flocked to enlist in what a recruiting poster confidently described as a “destined to be gallant Regiment.”
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Hartford’s Great Migration through Charles S. Johnson’s Eyes
During the Great Migration of the early 1900s, African Americans from the rural South relocated to Hartford and other Northern cities in search of better prospects.
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Laboring in the Shade
Thousands of black Southern students, including a young Martin Luther King Jr., came north to work in Connecticut’s tobacco fields.
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The Successes and Struggles of New Haven Entrepreneur William Lanson
The life of this savvy businessman illustrates the possibilities—and limits—urban Connecticut presented to African Americans in the early 1800s.
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Avon’s Educational and Cultural Pioneer
Yung Wing was the first Chinese student to graduate from…
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Hartford’s “Little Italy”
In the early 1900s, Italians made new lives for themselves in Hartford.
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Trolley Campaigners Storm Small Towns and Votes for Women is the Battle Cry
In the wake of a 1912 trolley campaign, the woman’s suffrage movement rapidly gained ground across Connecticut.
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Joseph Hopkins Twichell: Asylum Hill’s Religious Leader and Mark Twain’s Closest Friend
Inspired by his friendship with Mark Twain, Joseph Twichell took up such causes as labor rights, immigration, education, and interfaith advocacy.
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Colonial Revival Movement Sought Stability during Time of Change
Connecticut’s past provided refuge from pressures of modern life.
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A Russian Village Retreat in Southbury
Located in the southwest corner of Southbury, nestled between Interstate…
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Windsor Tobacco: Made in the Shade
Early New England settlers found the Windsor area’s sandy loam…
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Knights of Columbus Chartered – Today in History: March 29
On March 29, 1882, the Connecticut legislature officially chartered the…
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An Orderly & Decent Government: A Society in Ferment, 1819-1865
Industry, immigration, and urbanization characterized Connecticut in the 19th century.
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Stimulated by immigration and industrialization, Connecticut cities expanded rapidly
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Connecticut saw its population of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe swell in the last decades of the 19th century.
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Bird’s-eye Views Offer Idealized Portraits of Progress
Panoramic prints of growing cities and towns became popular in the late 1800s as Connecticut transformed from an agricultural to an industrial state.
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The Long, Ambiguous History of Connecticut’s Blue Laws
Connecticut’s blue laws are a series of laws based on puritan values that restrict or ban certain “morally questionable” activities on days of worship or rest.
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Welcoming Armenian Immigrants, Hartford, 1920
This naturalization ceremony in Hartford demonstrates the importance of the…
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Capital Community College Students Explore Hartford’s Immigrant History…In Their Own Words
In spring 2013 students from Capital Community College’s Liberal Arts…
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