The Articles of Confederation loosely served as the nation’s first formal governing document, until ultimately being replaced by the US Constitution.
ReadThe Palmer Raids, launched in Connecticut in 1919, were part of the “Red Scare” paranoia that resulted in numerous civil rights violations committed by law enforcement officials.
ReadBenjamin Hutchins Coe helped teach Americans how to draw through the publication of numerous art manuals, many focused on Connecticut-inspired landscapes.
ReadAmy Johnson was a Mohegan woman who resisted living the life European settlers wanted her to live.
ReadFrom the 17th through the 19th centuries, the economic prosperity of New Haven significantly depended upon Long Wharf.
ReadDenied the right to free assembly in public spaces, Connecticut workers joined in a larger national movement of civil disobedience.
ReadOn November 1, 1961, Estelle Griswold and Dr. C. Lee Buxton opened the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut in New Haven.
ReadJack o’ lanterns, witches, and ghosts—many of the holiday staples that we still associate with Halloween were familiar to Connecticut residents in the early 1900s.
ReadTreatments for tuberculosis included everything from exposure to extremes in temperature to regimens involving access to the outdoors.
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.
ReadIn all, 120 Chinese students came to live and study in New England. When they returned home, they served as diplomats, engineers, naval officers, physicians, educators, administrators, and magistrates.
ReadCaleb Brewster—Fairfield, Connecticut’s resident member of the Culper Spy Ring during the Revolutionary War—was also an active participant in the African Slave Trade.
ReadAlso known as the Picture Gallery, the Trumbull Gallery holds the distinction of being the first art museum at an educational institution in the United States.
ReadAlthough not a native of Connecticut, one would be hard pressed to find a man more committed to the people of Connecticut than Joseph Roswell Hawley. He became Brigadier General of the 1st Connecticut Infantry during the Civil War and served the state as both a senator and as Connecticut’s 42nd governor. Within months of his death, the Connecticut legislature authorized construction of a memorial in his honor.
ReadShallow waterways and shifting sandbars made water navigation hazardous and prevented Old Saybrook from ever becoming a major port city.
ReadA failed Simsbury copper mine is now a national historic landmark in East Granby.
ReadBartlett was the first gravestone carver in the upper Connecticut River Valley, and his headstones tell historians much about early life in the northeastern colonies.
ReadThe Danbury Museum & Historical Society’s Huntington Hall honors the memory of a famed US sculptor, Anna Hyatt Huntington.
ReadBruce Rogers was a book designer who settled in New Fairfield. Considered one of the great typographers of his time, his masterpiece was the 1936 Oxford Lectern Bible.
ReadThis map, “Camp à Contorbery, le 7 Novembre, 10 milles de Windham,” is a page from the manuscript atlas Amérique Campagne 1782.
ReadImmigration to Connecticut in the second half of the 19th century proceeded much as it had in earlier decades.
ReadCredited with discovering the moons orbiting the planet Mars, Asaph Hall became an international science celebrity in the 19th century.
ReadA few minutes before 11:00 pm on October 15, 1955, Greenwich officials pulled the alarm signal and declared a state of emergency.
ReadThough Connecticut’s official nickname is the “Constitution State,” it has been known by many names throughout the centuries.
ReadThis video, taken in October of 1936, shows the Hindenburg sailing over Hartford, a short seven months before its destruction.
ReadOn October 13, 1931, the name “Lolly Pop” was officially registered to the Bradley Smith Company of New Haven by the US Patent and Trademark Office.
ReadHartford place names, such as Dutch Point, Huyshope Avenue, and Adriaen’s Landing, are reminders of a time when Connecticut was part of New Netherlands.
ReadTimothy Dwight was an influential preacher, poet, and educator who served as a chaplain during the Revolutionary War and later as the president of Yale College.
ReadOn October 10, 1973, Alexander Calder’s sculpture, Stegosaurus, was dedicated in Hartford.
ReadIn 1909, the Danbury Agricultural Society called attention to its upcoming fair in a most creative manner.
ReadFor the deck hands, stevedores, and firemen who made the steamboats of the Hartford Line run, 18-hour days, dangerous conditions, and lousy food were the norm.
ReadHome to companies such as Royal and Underwood, Connecticut became an important manufacturing center for typewriters in the early 20th century.
ReadIn October of 1908, Hartford celebrated the opening of the Bulkeley Bridge, which connected Hartford and East Hartford, with a three-day extravaganza.
ReadOne of the most significant religious figures in US history, this theologian, philosopher, pastor, revivalist, educator, and missionary spent his formative years in Connecticut.
ReadOn October 4, 1916, the Ulysses Simpson Grant Memorial Tablet was officially unveiled in the north lobby of the Connecticut State Capitol building in Hartford.
ReadEli Whitney later established an armory in Hamden that not only produced weapons for the US government during the early 19th century but also contributed to the evolution of mass-produced firearms.
ReadOn October 3, 1784, prominent American architect and engineer Ithiel Town was born in Thompson.
ReadIn 1881, Connecticut resident Benjamin F. Clyde began producing and selling cider in Mystic.
ReadCounty government operated in Connecticut in one form or another for nearly 300 years before the state abolished it in 1960.
ReadIn April 1918, Governor Holcomb designated English as the only language to be used in teaching and prohibited schools from employing “alien enemies.”
ReadThe story of Mariann Wolcott and Ralph Earl captures much of the complexity the Revolutionary War brought to the lives and interactions of ordinary citizens.
ReadSites along the Connecticut Freedom Trail mark key events in the quest to achieve freedom and social equality for African Americans in the state.
Read“Industry,” also known as “The Craftsman,” by Evelyn Longman, resides in Hartford and is a celebration of the working class and their contribution to society.
ReadIn 1926, the Hartford Blues became the first and only NFL team to call Connecticut home. After a disappointing season, the NFL voted them out of the league.
ReadIn front of the state capitol is a mortar commemorating the service of the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery Regiment. The mortar may or may not be the original “Petersburg Express” used at the famous siege of Petersburg, Virginia, during the Civil War.
ReadThe hurricane of 1938, which devastated the Quinebaug Forest, ended up driving the development of the charcoal industry in Union.
ReadFew major league baseball players had rookie seasons as good as Walt Dropo’s while playing for the Boston Red Sox in 1950.
ReadOn September 22, 1776, the British hanged Revolutionary War soldier Nathan Hale, a school teacher from Coventry, Connecticut, for spying.
ReadThis 19th century Connecticut politician took a controversial stand against a war that would divide the Union and decrease states’ rights.
ReadA powerful and popular preacher, Thomas Hooker led a group of Puritans out of Massachusetts in 1636 to settle new lands that eventually became the city of Hartford.
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