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Your Home For Stories About Connecticut

People, Traditions, Innovations & Events making up the rich history of the Nutmeg State

Welcome to ConnecticutHistory.org, a project of Connecticut Humanities! In keeping with the internet’s dynamic nature and our evolving understanding of the past, ConnecticutHistory.org brings you new content and connections each and every week. Read the latest entries in an ever-expanding collection of high-quality essays and short reflections. Browse those stories by town, topic, or person.

Connect to the real thing, the historic places and primary source images, documents, and objects that make up the historical record.

Polaroid Big Swinger 3000 Camera, ca. 1960s – National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center

It’s Only The Beginning

Stop back often. What you see here today is just the beginning. We are working daily with experts from universities, libraries, museums, and historical societies from around the state to bring you the very best historical writing—a timely mix of fun and fact, famous and obscure, surprising and serious. Enjoy!

In Memory of Bruce Fraser

ConnecticutHistory.org is dedicated to Bruce Fraser whose vision, motivation, and love of Connecticut history made this project possible.

Partners

ConnecticutHistory.org is a program of Connecticut Humanities developed in partnership with the University of Connecticut Digital Media Center, University of Connecticut Libraries and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

ConnecticutHistory.org has been made possible in part by support from the State of Connecticut and major grants from the US Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities: Because democracy demands wisdom.