Immigration to Connecticut in the early 20th century continued much…
ReadImmigration to Connecticut in the second half of the 19th…
ReadThis 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.
ReadNumerous factors contributed to the growth of Connecticut in the…
ReadFrom the mid-1800s to the present, Jews have called Connecticut’s capital city home and enriched it with their cultural traditions and civic spirit.
ReadIn their respective tragic but inspiring final American acts, Yung and the Mission reflect the worst and best of the Chinese Exclusion Act era.
ReadFrench 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.
ReadAuthoring 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.
ReadIn 1873, Charles H. Phillips patented Milk of Magnesia and his company produced the popular antacid and laxative in Stamford, Connecticut, until 1976.
ReadThe 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.
ReadA significant wave of immigration to the United States from the West Indies began in the 1940s, spurred by labor shortages during World War II.
ReadBoth successes and failures in the execution of debate and diplomacy lay behind some of the most monumental events in Connecticut’s history.
ReadOrville Platt was a powerful Republican senator from Washington, Connecticut. He presented the Platt Amendment to Congress.
ReadA bustling ethnic neighborhood along Broad Street in New Britain is home to such a vibrant Polish population that it earned the nickname “Little Poland.”
ReadMen 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.”
ReadDuring 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.
ReadThousands of black Southern students, including a young Martin Luther King Jr., came north to work in Connecticut’s tobacco fields.
ReadThe life of this savvy businessman illustrates the possibilities—and limits—urban Connecticut presented to African Americans in the early 1800s.
ReadYung Wing was the first Chinese student to graduate from…
ReadIn the early 1900s, Italians made new lives for themselves in Hartford.
ReadIn the wake of a 1912 trolley campaign, the woman’s suffrage movement rapidly gained ground across Connecticut.
ReadInspired by his friendship with Mark Twain, Joseph Twichell took up such causes as labor rights, immigration, education, and interfaith advocacy.
ReadConnecticut’s past provided refuge from pressures of modern life.
ReadLocated in the southwest corner of Southbury, nestled between Interstate…
ReadEarly New England settlers found the Windsor area’s sandy loam…
ReadOn March 29, 1882, the Connecticut legislature officially chartered the…
ReadIndustry, immigration, and urbanization characterized Connecticut in the 19th century.
ReadStimulated by immigration and industrialization, Connecticut cities expanded rapidly
ReadConnecticut saw its population of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe swell in the last decades of the 19th century.
ReadPanoramic prints of growing cities and towns became popular in the late 1800s as Connecticut transformed from an agricultural to an industrial state.
ReadConnecticut’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.
ReadThis naturalization ceremony in Hartford demonstrates the importance of the…
ReadIn spring 2013 students from Capital Community College’s Liberal Arts…
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