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Thomas Hooker: Connecticut’s Founding Father

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William Eaton, a Peace Democrat and Civil War Opponent

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Hurricane of 1938: Connecticut’s Worst Disaster

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The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918

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Art Young, Radical Cartoonist

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The Rise of the Black Panther Party in Connecticut

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The Connecticut Ratification Convention

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Prudence Punderson, Ordinary Woman, Extraordinary Artist: Needlework in Connecticut

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Igor Sikorsky and his Flying Machines

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Financing a Free Puerto Rico: The Great Wells Fargo Heist of 1983

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Bucket Brigade to the Rescue – Today in History: September 12

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From Aprons to Lab Coats: The Art and Science of Home Economics

A Patriotic Legacy in Print

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Prudence Crandall Fights for Equal Access to Education

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Wethersfield Prison Blues

The Deplorable History of Hartford’s Seyms Street Jail

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Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London

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David Bushnell and his Revolutionary Submarine

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Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education

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Martha Graham, Connecticut College, and the American Dance Festival

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Video – Undersea University – US Navy’s Submarine School

Briggs Manufacturing Drives Voluntown’s 19th-Century Cotton Economy

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David Humphreys, Soldier, Statesman, and Agricultural Innovator

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The Child’s Picture Defining and Reading Book by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Fitch Soldiers’ Home Closes – Today in History: August 28

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Charles Grandison Finney Spreads Revivalism and Education throughout the Mississippi Valley

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Caleb Brewster and the Culper Spy Ring

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The Great River: Connecticut’s Main Stream

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Five Minutes that Changed Connecticut: Simon Bernstein and the 1965 Connecticut Education Amendment

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Discovered Dinosaur Tracks Re-Route Highway and Lead to State Park

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Windsor Tobacco: Made in the Shade

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The Legend of the Charter Oak

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Enfield’s Shaker Legacy

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A Metal Giant in Wilton

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Connecticut Servicemen in the “Bloody Bucket” Division

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Women Win the Right to Vote

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Putting History on the Map

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Fame and Infamy for the Hulls of Derby

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Florence Griswold’s Home: A Story of Perseverance and Community

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Horror on the Housatonic: The Railroad Disaster of August 1865

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Andover’s Award-Winning Creamery

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America’s Most Devastating Conflict: King Philip’s War

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William O’Neill: Climbing Up the Political Ladder

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Defending Connecticut: Fortifying New London Against the British in 1812

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Health Department Fights Unseen Enemies During World War I

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North Stonington Fairs Preserve Connecticut’s Agricultural Heritage

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Hidden Nearby: The Bantam Lake Ice House

Home Missionary Society’s First Missionary – Today in History: August 7

Ashford’s Glass from the Past

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Washington’s Sister Susie Society

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The Many Layers to Onion Farming in Westport

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USS Nautilus Passes Under North Pole – Today in History: August 3

Talcott Mountain: A View of Early New England

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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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Hardcore Connecticut: Documenting the State’s Punk Rock Scene

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East Haven’s Revolutionary Salt Works

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Kensington Soldiers Monument Dedicated – Today in History: July 28

Connecticut Valley Style: Eliphalet Chapin Inspires a Tradition of Craft

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Herbert Abrams Immortalizes the Nation’s Leaders

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Sanitary Fair – Today in History: July 25

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The Hartford Wits

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Weir Farm the Result of a Trade – Who Knew?

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Levi Pease, Stage Route and Transportation Innovator

The Adventure of a Lifetime: John Ledyard and Captain Cook’s Last Voyage

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A World in Motion: Artist and Sculptor Alexander Calder

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The First Battle of Bull Run: Connecticut Troops Stand Firm When the Battle Turns Against Them

A Unique Island Attraction in Bridgeport

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Samuel Colt…and Sewing Machines?

Reading, Writing, and the Great Outdoors: Frederick Gunn’s School Transforms Victorian-era Education

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The Charter of 1662

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Senator Oliver Ellsworth’s Judiciary Act

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Up from the Ashes: Fire at the Meriden Britannia Company – Today in History: July 16

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Preserving Connecticut’s Natural Beauty: Connecticut’s First State Parks

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Creating Candlewood Lake – Today in History: July 15

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Did You Know a Connecticut Governor Was a US Spy?

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Gallows Lane and the Execution of Barnett Davenport

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A Revolution On Two Wheels: Columbia Bicycles

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New England’s Grand Ambition: The Farmington Canal

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Connecticut Suffragists Appeal to the President – Today in History: July 12

Bridgeport’s Catastrophic 1911 Train Wreck

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Drawn to Superheroes

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Continuity and Change along the Eightmile River

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Erector Set Patented – Today in History: July 8

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British Burn Fairfield – Today in History: July 7

The Hartford Circus Fire

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P. T. Barnum: An Entertaining Life

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Silas Brooks, Balloonist

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Pepperidge Farm Opens Bakery – Today in History: July 4

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Born – Today in History: July 3

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Mohegan Sacred Sites: Moshup’s Rock

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Boat Shoes Have Ties to Connecticut – Who Knew?

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Deadly Fire at Gulliver’s – Today in History: June 30

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Merritt Parkway Creates Scenic Gateway to New England

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The Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut

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Noble Jerome’s Clock Patent Model

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The Rose King of America Transformed Cromwell’s Landscape

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Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy

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Grounds for Divorce – Who Knew?

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Henry Ward Beecher, a Preacher with Political Clout

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A Public Responsibility: Conservation and Development in the 20th Century

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One of the Honored Dead: General J. K. F. Mansfield

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J. P. Morgan’s Connecticut Roots

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North Haven: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s

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The War Connecticut Hated

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Ivory Cutting: The Rise and Decline of a Connecticut Industry

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The Colt Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company

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The Blake Rock Crusher – Today in History: June 15

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Where Mr. Twain and Mrs. Stowe Built Their Dream Houses

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Ferry Boats a Way of Life in Early Connecticut

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The Platt Amendment – Today in History: June 12

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Daring World War II Escape of a Bethany Soldier

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The Hardware City Could’ve Been the Motor City – Who Knew?

Hooker’s Journey to Hartford

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USS George Washington Launched – Today in History: June 9

Sarah Bernhardt Performs in Hartford – Today in History: June 8

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Thomas Hall’s Electric Block Railroad Signal – Today in History: June 7

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Nathan Hale: The Man and the Legend

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American Painter John Trumbull Born – Today in History: June 6

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Samuel Colt and Elizabeth Jarvis Marry – Today in History: June 5

Wiffle Throws a Curve in American Leisure Time

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Tavern Signs Mark Changes in Travel, Innkeeping, and Artistic Practice

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Helen Keller Dies – Today in History: June 1

Oldest Rose Garden – Who Knew?

Helen Keller in Connecticut: The Last Years of a Legendary Crusader

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Colonial Revival Movement Sought Stability during Time of Change

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Papier-Mache Clocks – Who Knew?

Noah Webster and the Dream of a Common Language

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Providing Rest for the Weary in Barkhamsted

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Timeline: Settlement of the Colony of Connecticut

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Gothic Connecticut

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Lobsters and Oysters and Clams: A Short History of Seafood in Connecticut

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Built on Innovation, Saved by Nostalgia: Hitchcock Chair Company

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The Inventive Minds of Connecticut Women: Patents in the 19th Century

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W. J. Squire’s Gill Net Manufactory in East Haddam

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Restoring a Unique Piece of Bloomfield History

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Modernism in Connecticut through Photographs

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Homer D. Babbidge, Leader in Education

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Aunt Polly and Its Preservation

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The Old Leatherman Alive in Our Memories

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Connecticut’s Loyal Subjects: Toryism and the American Revolution

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Albert Pope Pioneered Bicycles for Women

Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking

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Paradise on the Sound: The Summer Colony at Fenwick

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Steaming Across the Atlantic

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First Woman Elected as US State Governor Born – Today in History: May 10

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John Brown Born – Today in History: May 9

The Beckley Blast Furnace, East Canaan

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Learning about the Lusitania: How Hartford Heard the News

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Amos Bronson Alcott Changes the Way Connecticut Children Learn

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Re-creating Our National Pastime

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The House That Hoadley Built

Stagecoach Sustained Commerce and Communication in 1800s

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Crisis Management during the American Civil War: The Hartford Soldiers’ Aid Society

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A Connecticut Painter Finds His Voice through Colonial Folk Art

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First American Medicine Patent – Today in History: April 30

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Jeremiah Wadsworth, “foremost in every enterprise”

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The Connecticut River

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Telephone Demonstration Leads to a First – Today in History: April 27

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The Burning of Danbury

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Gallaudet’s Vision Advances Deaf Education

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Landscape Architecture Helps in Healing – Who Knew?

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The Collapse of the L’Ambiance Plaza

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Benedict Arnold Demands the Key – Today in History: April 22

Ironclad Commissioned – Today in History: April 21

News From Lexington: Contemporary Views of the Opening Battles of the American Revolution

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Connecticut: Home to the Boxcar Children Mysteries – Who Knew?

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The American School for the Deaf – Today in History: April 15

Blacksmith Isaac Glasko Challenges the State Constitution

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Witamy to Little Poland! – A Thriving Neighborhood in New Britain

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Phineas Pratt’s Machine for Making Combs – Today in History: April 12

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Hard Times: Governor Wilbur Cross and the Great Depression in Connecticut

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Abraham Ribicoff: Kennedy Confidant and Connecticut’s First Jewish Governor

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The British Raid on Essex

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New Canaan’s Pioneering Female Physician

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P. T. Barnum Dies – Today in History: April 7

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Swinging for the Fences: Connecticut’s Black Baseball Greats

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The Thimble Islands – Little Islands with a Big History

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A Tale of Shad, the State Fish

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Bradley International Airport Transforms Windsor Locks into Regional Gateway

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Amateur Radio Comes of Age in Connecticut

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Hartford’s Fuller Brush Company Goes Door-to-Door Across US

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Helen F. Boyd Leads the Charge for Better Public Health

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Knights of Columbus Chartered – Today in History: March 29

Much Good Might be Accomplished: Catharine Esther Beecher and the Pursuit of Domestic Economy

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I-95 Reaches New London

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Connecticut Lessons from a Tragedy

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Connecticut’s First Female Telephone Operator – Today in History: March 24

Connecticut’s First Municipal Electric Utility

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Joseph Taborsky and the “Mad Dog Killings”

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Spring Training Baseball Comes to Wallingford

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J. Frederick Kelly: Constructing Connecticut’s Architectural History

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Video – Rosalind Russell Tribute Film

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Leatherman Dies – Today in History: March 20

The 29th Leaves for War – Today in History: March 19

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Paleontologist Othniel Marsh dies – Today in History: March 18

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Fighting Sons of Erin: Connecticut’s Irish Regiment in the Civil War

A Woman Ahead of Her Time: Mabel Osgood Wright

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Celia Burleigh, Connecticut’s First Female Minister

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Video – Martha Minerva Franklin Tribute Film

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Dr. Mary B. Moody Challenges Victorian Mores About Women in Medicine

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Miss James, First Woman Pharmacist in CT Right in Old Saybrook

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The Blizzard of 1888 – Today in History: March 11

“U.S. Troops in Viet Nam, but none in Selma” – Today in History: March 9

A Day for Women – Today in History: March 8

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A Civil War Soldier Engineers an Iconic Career

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Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Rally – Today in History: March 5

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John H. Trumbull: Connecticut’s “Flying Governor”

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The Lyman Allyn Opens – Today in History: March 2

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Fire at Wesleyan’s North College – Today in History: March 1

Holmes at Home: The Life of William Gillette

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Connecticut’s Black Governors

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Israel Putnam: A Youthful Trailblazer Turned Colonial Militiaman

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The Revolving Gun – Today in History: February 25

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The Gildersleeve Shipbuilding Legacy in Portland

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Women of the Prison Brigade

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Monumental Bronze Company

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Southbury Takes On the Nazis

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The Beadle Family Murders – Today in History: December 11

Hamden’s Literary Legend

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Transit of Venus: German Scientists Visit Hartford

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The Day Four Trains Collided in East Thompson

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Father of Architects Born – Today in History: December 4

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Goshen’s Animal Pound

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Hidden Nearby: The Morris Academy

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Danbury Hangings: The Executions of Anthony and Amos

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Thanksgiving and Christmas at Long Lane, 1874

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America’s First Ordained Woman Minister: Olympia Brown and Bridgeport’s Universalist Church

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Pierre Lallement and the Modern-Day Pedal Bicycle – Today in History: November 20

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Iron and Water: The Norwich & Worcester Railroad Story

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“Negroes Who Stand Up and Fight Back” – Paul Robeson in Hartford

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Meriden’s Silver Lining

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Foot Ball Match: Harvard vs. Yale – Today in History: November 13

Jack Brutus, Connecticut War Dog – Who Knew?

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Connecticut Lawyer Prosecutes Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg

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The Connecticut Poll Tax

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Samuel Foot: A Trader Turned Governor

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The “Red Scare” in Connecticut

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The Kennedys in Connecticut – Today in History: November 6

Literacy Tests and the Right To Vote

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Scandal in the Beecher Family

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Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut – Today in History: November 1

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Hiding the Charter: Images of Joseph Wadsworth’s Legendary Action

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Igor Sikorksy Dies – Today in History: October 26

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Yale University Art Gallery – Today in History: October 25

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Goodspeed Opera House Opens – Today in History: October 24

Hartford and New Haven: A Tale of Two Capitals

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Get Out Your Paper Dress, Gal! – Who Knew?

Sloop-of-War Ship’s Figurehead Lands at State Capitol

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Benjamin Wright: The Father of American Civil Engineering

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The Flood That We Forget: October 15 and 16, 1955

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Byram River Flood – Today in History: October 15

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A Revolutionary Book Designer: Bruce Rogers of New Fairfield

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New Haven Gives the Lollipop its Name – Today in History: October 13

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Reckoning with the Dutch: the Treaty of Hartford, 1650

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The US Constitutional Convention: America Forms a Bicameral Legislature

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Roger Sherman, Revolutionary and Dedicated Public Servant

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Calder’s Stegosaurus Dedicated – Today in History: October 10

Henry Deming: Mayor of Hartford and New Orleans

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The Steamboat New England: “The shock was dreadful” – Today in History: October 8

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Elizabeth Jarvis Colt Born – Today in History: October 5

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Unveiling of the Grant Memorial Tablet – Today in History: October 4

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Accidental Shooting Leads to Witchcraft Conviction – Today in History: October 3

The Rise and Fall of Silas Deane, American Patriot

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The Danbury Fair, 1869-1981

UConn and the Evolution of a Public University

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Indian Hill Cemetery and the Vernacular of the Times

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Evelyn Beatrice Longman Commemorates the Working Class

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A Monument Memorializes the Fallen

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The 42-Day Income Tax

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The Great Hurricane of 1938 – Today in History: September 21

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Avon Industry: From Underground to Outerspace

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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch – Today in History: September 17

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World’s First Helicopter – Today in History: September 14

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Parachutist Snagged in Midair – Today in History: September 13

The Colvocoresses Oak

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Painter, Muralist, Sculptor Sol LeWitt born – Today in History: September 9

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Wheeler & Wilson: A Stitchy Situation in Watertown

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The Turtle Submarine – Today in History: September 6

Raise a Glass to Winemaking in Connecticut

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A Diversified Mind: Hiram Percy Maxim

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Sylvester Poli, Negotiating Cultural Politics in an Age of Immigration

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Theodate Pope Riddle Dies – Today in History: August 30

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Halladay’s Revolutionary Windmill – Today in History: August 29

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Lisbon Tunnel Completed – Today in History: August 28

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The Amistad

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Dinosaur Tracks Found – Today in History: August 23

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Roosevelt Rides in an Electric Car – Today in History: August 22

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The Charter Oak Fell – Today in History: August 21

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Governor Jonathan Trumbull Dies – Today in History: August 17

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Senator Brandegee Stonewalls Women’s Suffrage

“’No Taxation without Representation’: Black Voting in Connecticut

The Sand Hogs Set the Foundation for the Bulkeley Bridge

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Mastodon Bones Unearthed – Today in History: August 13

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The Stonington Battle Flag

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The Great Wallingford Tornado – Today in History: August 9

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Poet Wallace Stevens Dies – Today in History: August 2

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Miss Huntley’s School Opens – Today in History: August 1

Connecticut’s “Woodstock” Canceled – Today in History: July 30

Cleopatra’s Needle and Groton’s Captain Davis – Who Knew?

A Baltic Mill Helps Found a New Town

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Mystic River Bridge Opens – Today in History: July 19

Hammonasset State Park Serves the State and its Residents

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The Greenwich Avenue Fires of 1908 and 1936 Sparked Upgrades to Town’s Emergency Services

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The Connecticut Compromise – Today in History: July 16

Colt Park and the Magical Summer of 1976

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Sheff v. O’Neill – Today in History: July 9

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The Hartford Circus Fire – Today in History: July 6

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Pepperidge Farm: Healthful Bread Builds a Business

Bigelow Tea–A Connecticut Tea Party

Buffalo Bill Cody Visits the Monument of Uncas – Today in History: July 2

Mianus River Bridge Collapses – Today in History: June 28

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Educator Sarah Pierce Born – Today in History: June 26

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Private vs. Public Property – Today in History: June 23

John Howe Makes a Better Pin – Today in History: June 22

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The Automatic Gallows – Today in History: June 18

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Benedict Arnold died in London, England – Today in History: June 14

The Bazooka Changes War – Today in History: June 14

Hamilton Breaks Air Records – Today in History: June 13

Oliver Cromwell Launched – Today in History: June 13

Christopher Leffingwell Born – Today in History: June 11

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Bridge Ornaments Help Tell the Legend of the Windham Frog Fight

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Academy Graduates First African American Student – Today in History: June 8

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Griswold v. Connecticut – Today in History: June 7

First Human Test of a Nylon Parachute – Today in History: June 6

Frog Hollow: Hartford’s Living Landmark

Uncle Tom’s Cabin Begins Serialization – Today in History: June 5

The Free Consent of the People: Thomas Hooker and the Fundamental Orders

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Memorial Day 1920 Brings a Changing of the Guard

Rediscovering Albert Afraid-of-Hawk

Governor Chester Bowles Dies – Today in History: May 25

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Waterbury Tornado – Today in History: May 24

Benjamin Dutton Beecher had a Penchant for Invention

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Setting Speed Limits – Today in History: May 21

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Dark Day – Today in History: May 19

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New-Gate Prison Breakout – Today in History: May 18

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Metal Homes for the Atomic Age

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Largest Earthquake in Connecticut – Today in History: May 16

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Gun Wheel of the First Light Battery, Connecticut Volunteers

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Katharine Hepburn Born – Today in History: May 12

Sloan Wilson, the Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, is Born – Today in History: May 8

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Edwin Land Inventor of the Polaroid Born – Today in History: May 7

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Borough of Stonington

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Artist Frederic Church Born – Today in History: May 4

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A First Amendment Lesson: Weaver High Students Teach Their Elders

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Connecticut Declares War Against the Pequot – Today in History: May 1

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Last State Highway Toll Paid – Today in History: April 28

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Battle at Ridgefield – Today in History: April 27

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The British Attack Danbury – Today in History: April 26

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Frederick Law Olmsted Born – Today in History: April 26

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Hamilton Wrecks Aeroplane – Today in History: April 22

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Vietnam Veterans Against the War – Today in History: April 19

Bridgeport Women Answer the Call – Today in History: April 15

Colt’s Submarine Battery – Today in History: April 13

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An Orderly & Decent Government: A New State, A New Constitution, 1776-1818

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An Orderly & Decent Government: A Society in Ferment, 1819-1865

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An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1634-1776

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An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1905-1929

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An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1819-1865

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An Orderly & Decent Government: The Rise of the Factory, 1866-1887

The Portable Typewriting Machine – Today in History: April 12

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Battling Bat Battalino: One of Hartford’s Heroes

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Litchfield’s Revolutionary War Soldiers’ Tree

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The “Father of American Football” is Born – Today in History: April 7

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World War I Flying Ace Raoul Lufbery

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Freighter Worcester Launched – Today in History: April 5

The 29th First to Enter Confederate Capital When It Surrenders – Today in History: April 3

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Forgotten Founder: John Davenport of New Haven

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Benedict Arnold: America’s Most Famous Traitor

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Steamboat Accident – Today in History: March 29

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Connecticut and the Comstock Law

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Bursting of the Staffordville Reservoir – Today in History: March 27

William Redfield Born – Today in History: March 26

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Civil Rights Demonstrations – Today in History: March 18

Connecticut Pocketknife Firms

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Gideon Welles Appointed Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy – Today in History: March 7

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William Gillette’s Last Performance – Today in History: February 27

Park Central Hotel Boiler Explosion – Today in History: February 18

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Baptist Missionaries at Work in 19th-Century Burma

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A Successful Lawyer and Politician Who Never Went to College

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Roger Griswold Starts a Brawl in Congress – Today in History: February 15

Alfred Carlton Gilbert, Inventor of the Erector Set – Today in History: February 15

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Artist Louis Paul Dessar Dies – Today in History: February 14

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Arthur Miller dies – Today in History: February 10

Blizzard Halts Mail Delivery – Today in History: February 7

“An Admirable Portrait” of Frederick Douglass

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Uriah Tracy Authors the Rules for Impeachment

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Waterbury Burns – Today in History: February 2

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Black History Month Resources

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Frozen Reservoir Destroys Danbury – Today in History: January 31

First General Copyright Law – Today in History: January 29

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G. Fox & Co. Destroyed by Fire – Today in History: January 29

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Reel Lawn Mower Patent – Today in History: January 28

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Oldest College Daily – Today in History: January 28

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William Douglas: A Colonial Hero’s Sacrifice

Henry Barnard Advances State and National Education Initiatives

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Site Lines: The Mysterious Blue Lights

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The Astronomical Event of the Century

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Connecticut Yankee and Millstone: 48 Years of Nuclear Power

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New Haven Coliseum Imploded – Today in History: January 20

Anna Louise James Makes History with Medicine

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Civic Center Roof Collapses – Today in History: January 18

“Appalling Calamity”: Loss of the Steamboat Lexington – Today in History: January 13, 1840

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Timothy Dwight Dies – Today in History: January 11

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Ethan Allen Born – Today in History: January 10

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Connecticut and the Embargo Act of 1807

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The Ghost Ship of New Haven Sets Sail Shrouded in Mystery

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Ellis Ruley: Art that Celebrated Life

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“Tom Thumb” Born – Today in History: January 4

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Lounsbury Elected Governor – Today in History: January 4

From the State Historian: Connecticut’s Slow Steps Toward Emancipation

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Connecticut Turnpike Opens – Today in History: January 2

Portland’s Guy Hedlund: Actor and Activist

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A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors

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O Christmas Tree!

Connecticut’s Christmas Town

A Most Unusual Criminal Execution in New London

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Sending Season’s Greetings: Christmas Cards in Connecticut

The Hartford Convention or Leap no Leap

First Recorded Fall of Meteorites in the United States – Today in History: December 14

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Ending the Danbury Shakes: A Story of Workers’ Rights and Corporate Responsibility

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This Won’t Hurt a Bit! A Brief History of Anesthesia

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Elihu Burritt Born – Today in History: December 8

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Reporting News of Pearl Harbor – Today in History: December 7

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NFL Great, Andy Robustelli of Stamford

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The Revolution of 1817

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Scrabble Copyrighted – Today in History: December 1

Setting the Table in Historic Style: Connecticut Views on Staffordshire China

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Governor Griswold’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

A Connecticut Nazi Spy Has a Change of Heart

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Nathaniel Palmer discovers Antarctica – Today in History: November 18

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The Aqua Velva State – Today in History: November 17

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Connecticut Residents Did Not Let Veterans Day “Go Commercial.”

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Alfred Howe Terry Born in Hartford – Today in History: November 10

First US Detachable Electric Plug – Today in History: November 8

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Past Hallowe’en Pranks Bemused Some and Frustrated Others

The White Plague: Progressive-Era Tuberculosis Treatments in Connecticut

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Witchcraft in Connecticut

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The Temperance Movement in Connecticut – Today in History: October 27

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Roger Griswold: A Governor Not Afraid To Challenge Authority

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A Memorial to General Hawley at the State Capitol

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Gerald Chapman: America’s First “Public Enemy Number One”

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Hartford’s Industrial Day – Today in History: October 7

Mighty, Mighty Hartford

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Nathan Hale Hanged in New York – Today in History: September 22

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Connecticut’s Chickamauga Tree: An Investigation

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A Day of Celebration – Today in History: September 17

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Connecticut Pin Makers

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Thomas Knowlton: A Small Town’s National Hero

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The Great Atlantic Hurricane Hits Connecticut

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Fort Griswold Attacked – Today in History: September 6

Joshua Hempsted Born – Today in History: September 1

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Serving Up Justice: Hartford’s Black Workers Organize

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And They’re Off!: Harness Racing at Charter Oak Park

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A Fair to Remember in Brooklyn

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Seth Thomas Works Around the Clock in Wolcott

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19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut

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Living Rituals: Mohegan Wigwam Festival

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Connecticut Draws the Curtain on Public Executions

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Hurricanes Connie & Diane Deliver Double Hit – Who Knew?

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Danbury Prison Protest – Today in History: August 11

Hartford’s Challenge to “The Birth of a Nation”

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Connecticut Valley Railroad’s First Train – Today in History: July 29

Roger Tory Peterson Dies – Today in History: July 28

An American Heritage River – Today in History: July 27

Hartford Wide-Awakes – Today in History: July 26

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Medical Pioneer Eli Todd born – Today in History: July 22

Cornelius Bushnell and His Ironclad Ship

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Civil War Soldier Dies of Gangrene – Today in History: July 10

Jonathan Edwards’ Famous Sermon – Today in History: July 8

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President Grant Celebrates Independence Day in Woodstock – Today in History: July 4

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An Artist’s Life in Hartford: The Early Career of Dwight Tryon

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Furniture Caster Patented – Today in History: June 30

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Murder on the Map: The Mysterious Death of Captain George M. Colvocoresses

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Henry Ward Beecher Born – Today in History: June 24

Ivoryton Playhouse Opens – Today in History: June 17

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Summer Crowds Flocked to New Canaan and Stayed

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The Lemon Law – Today in History: June 4

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The State Cantata – Today in History: June 3

Elizabeth Park’s Rose Garden: June is Busting Out All Over

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Alse Young Executed for Witchcraft – Today in History: May 26

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The Trailblazing Bessye Bennett

Stealth Attack from Guilford Launched – Today in History: May 23

The Who, What, Where, When and Why of Archives: How to Use Them

Jacob Schick Invents the Electric Razor – Today in History: May 13

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First Woman to Receive US Patent – Today in History: May 5

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Carl Sandburg, Poet from the Grassroots, Reaches Connecticut Audiences

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Waterford’s Need for Speed

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Vivien Kellems Takes On the IRS

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Video – Hidden History: Bushnell Park

Horace Bushnell Born – Today in History: April 14

The Civil War Commences: Connecticut’s Involvement in the Civil War

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Wallingford Native Son Signed the Declaration of Independence

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Patents – Stafford’s Inventive Minds

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The Gettysburg Address and Heroic Fathers Bronze Tablets at the State Capitol

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The Coaster Brake – Today in History: April 9

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The Innumerable Accolades Afforded Dr. William H. Welch

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War and the Fear of Enemy Aliens – Who Knew?

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Let There Be Light: An Early History of the Hartford Electric Light Company

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Video – Unsung Heroes: The Music of Jazz in New Haven

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Patents – Bloomfield’s Inventive Minds

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Fuller Brush Tower Collapses – Today in History: March 31

Video – Augusta Lewis Troup Tribute Film

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Government Orders Horse Pistols – Today in History: March 9

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Malcolm X in Hartford: “Our Mission is Not Violence but Freedom”

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Charles Stratton and Lavinia Warren Wed – Today in History: February 10

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Colt Armory Burns – Today in History: February 4

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Connecticut Transforms Aaron Draper Shattuck

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Nancy Toney’s Lifetime in Slavery

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Almost a Tragedy: The Collapse of the Hartford Civic Center

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Connecticut Ratifies US Constitution – Today in History: January 9

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Pratt & Whitney Debuts Wasp Engine – Today in History: December 24

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Women and Defense: World War II on the Connecticut Home Front

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A Woman Who Developed Tolerance: Leila T. Alexander

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New London Harbors a German Submarine During World War I – Who Knew?

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The Articles of Confederation: America’s First Constitution

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Notorious New-Gate Prison

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The Art of Life and Death in Colonial Bolton

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Christopher Miner Spencer, 19th-century Arms Manufacturer

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West Cornwall Covered Bridge: An Icon of New England Craftsmanship

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Take Me to the Fair: Connecticut Exhibits at the International Expositions

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A Bird’s-eye View of Bridgeport

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Sheff v. O’Neill Settlements Target Educational Segregation In Hartford

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USS Tullibee – Today in History: April 27

The Hartford Wheel Club: Disparity in the Gilded Age

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John Rogers was a 19th-Century Sculptor for the Common Man

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Gifford Pinchot: Bridging Two Eras of National Conservation

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Child Labor in Connecticut

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A Real Connecticut Yankee’s Baseball Career Cut Short

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The Northern Student Movement

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Speaking under the Open Sky: Frederick Douglass in Connecticut

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Bridgeport’s Walt Kelly, Creator of Pogo

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Danbury Baseball History Covers All the Bases

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From Bombs to Bras: World War I Conservation Measures Transform the Lives of Women

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Theodate Pope Riddle: Connecticut’s Pioneering Woman Architect

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A Candy Bar Empire in Naugatuck

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Connecticut Suffragists 1919

Waterbury’s Radium Girls

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Understanding the Environmental Effects of Industry by Examining the Starr Mill

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St. Patrick’s Day – Today in History: March 17

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Video – Martha Parsons Tribute Film

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The Public Library Movement: Caroline Hewins Makes Room for Young Readers

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Food Needed to Win the War Comes from Washington

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Lydia Sherman: The Derby Poisoner

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The First Hospice – Who Knew?

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A Different Look at the Amistad Trial: The Teenager Who Helped Save the Mende Captives

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Munitions Assembly Line 1943

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Hartford’s City Mother, Josephine Bennett

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Today in History – Fales & Gray Explosion Underscores Need for a Hartford Hospital

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Olin Library and The Debate About Open Space at Wesleyan University

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Rex Brasher Dies – Today in History: February 29

Andover Lake: A Lesson in Social Change

Early New Haven, from Quinnipiack to the American Revolution

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Race Restrictive Covenants in Property Deeds

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Hartford’s Great Migration through Charles S. Johnson’s Eyes

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Actress Gwen Reed Best Remembered for Dedication to Childhood Literacy

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Heart Pump out of an Erector Set – Who Knew?

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The Socially Dynamic Drumlin of Foss Hill

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The Fight Over Slavery Reaches Torrington

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Meriden Town Hall Burns Down – Today in History: February 14

Constitution Plaza Then and Now

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Laboring in the Shade

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North and South: The Legacy of Eli Whitney

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The Successes and Struggles of New Haven Entrepreneur William Lanson

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Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses

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Branding Law Enacted – Today in History: February 5

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Reverend James Pennington: A Voice for Freedom

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Hartford Times – Voices of Change

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First Commercial Telephone Exchange – Today in History: January 28

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John Ledyard, Connecticut’s Most Famous Traveler

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Hannah Bunce Watson: One of America’s First Female Publishers

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Birth of the Brass Valley

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Middletown’s Reservoirs Drive Growth Throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries

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Dr. King’s Dream Had Roots in Connecticut

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Boot Blacks and the Struggle to Survive in Hartford

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Bird’s-eye Views Offer Idealized Portraits of Progress

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Video: Documentary – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Simsbury

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The Fundamental Orders: Connecticut’s Role in Early Constitutional Government

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The Industrial Revolution Comes to Jewett City

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Andrus Field 1831–1911: Athletics and the Environment

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An Uncommonly Ingenious Mechanic: Abel Buell of Connecticut

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Connecticut Arms the Union

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Music Vale Seminary in Salem Credited as Being First in US

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The Van Vleck Observatory: A Reflection of Environmental Conditions

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Connecticut and the West Indies: Sugar Spurs Trans-Atlantic Trade

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Gradual Emancipation Reflected the Struggle of Some to Envision Black Freedom

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The Complicated Realities of Connecticut and the Civil War

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Skating Through Winter

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The Reverend Joseph Bellamy Makes Bethlehem a Holy Place

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Waterbury’s Holy Land

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An Inconvenient Season: Charlotte Cowles’s Letters from December 1839

The Hartford Convention – Today in History: December 15

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Eighty-Five Hundred Souls: the 1918-1919 Flu Epidemic in Connecticut

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Horace Wells Discovers Pain-free Dentistry

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Thomas W. Nason, the Poet Engraver of New England

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The Slow Demise of Prohibition in Wilton

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Just Pour Over Ice – Who Knew?

The American Brass Company: Leading the Way in the “Brass Valley”

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Before There Were Malls, There Were Main Streets

Emile Gauvreau and the Era of Tabloid Journalism

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Connecticut’s Black Civil War Regiment

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Give Thanks for American Cooking

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Seth Pease Surveys New Lands

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Helicopters, Guitars, and Guide Dogs: The Revolutionary Mind of Charles Kaman

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Any Month with an “R” in It: Eating Oysters in Connecticut

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An Experiment in Evangelization: Cornwall’s Foreign Mission School

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Help Build “Teach It”

A Separate Place: The New Haven Colony, 1638-1665

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Video – Haunted History: Harriet Beecher Stowe House

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The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper – Today in History: October 29

The Oldest US Newspaper in Continuous Publication

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Avon’s Educational and Cultural Pioneer

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Late 19th-Century Immigration in Connecticut

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Video – Home Front: Connecticut During World War II – Migration and Housing

Timothy Dwight Provides Religious, Military, and Educational Services for a Young Country

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The Great Danbury State Fair & Early 20th-Century Outdoor Advertising

Rising Tide: Steamboat Workers on the Connecticut River

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A Month-Long Look at Immigration

A Different “Type” of Connecticut Industry

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Capital Punishment in Connecticut: Changing Views

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The Importance of Being Puritan: Church and State in Colonial Connecticut

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Connecticut’s Mulberry Craze

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Oystering in Connecticut, from Colonial Times to the 21st Century

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Cash Crop: L.B. Haas & Co. and the History of Tobacco in Connecticut

Orange Seeds Yield Corn, Alfafa, Soy, and More

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Artist Roger Tory Peterson, a Champion for the Natural World

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Hope for the West: The Life and Mission of Lyman Beecher

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The “Perfect Handle” Hatchet – Who Knew?

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Indian Hill Cemetery and the Landscaping of Burial Grounds in the Mid-19th Century

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The Rise and Fall of Sealing in Early New London Industry

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Connecticut’s Youngest City – Who Knew?

New London’s Sound Defense

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Windsor Engineers Success

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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin Published 1852

Looking Back: the First “Aero Planes”

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Wesleyan Hills Helps Redefine Suburbia

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Over Time: Redding’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Ridgefield’s Historical Population

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Designed to Heal: The Connecticut General Hospital for the Insane

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Past Perfect: Wallace Nutting Invents an Ideal Olde New England

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Emily Holcombe Pioneered to Preserve Connecticut’s Colonial Past

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The Frost House Once Offered Travelers a Warm Welcome

Preserving an All-American Downtown in Torrington

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The Bryan-Andrew House: Still Standing After All These Years

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A Better Home and Garden in Bethlehem

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Louis’ Lunch and the Birth of the Hamburger

Killingworth’s Automated Attraction – Who Knew?

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The Darlings Make Preservation a Family Affair

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Diamonds of the Past: Hartford’s Lost Ball Parks

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The Prospect Green as a Historical Narrative

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The Newsies Strike Back

John Howard Hale: Glastonbury’s Peach King

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The Susquehanna Settlers

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Soldier, Patriot, and Politician: The Life of Oliver Wolcott

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George Washington Slept Here (Just Perhaps Not Well)

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Echoes of the Old World: The Architectural Legacy of Ithiel Town

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Breaking the Mold: Tradition and Innovation in the Work of Elbert Weinberg

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Video – Mark Twain at Stormfield

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100 Years of Workers’ Compensation

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A Bird’s-eye View of New Britain

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Shakers Revolutionize Garden Seed Business – Who Knew?

Jared Eliot Calls on Colonists to Change their Agricultural Practices

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“A Noble and Precious Life”: Edgar M. Woodford, Civil Engineer, Abolitionist, and Soldier

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Over Time: Orange’s Historical Population

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The Decorative Arts of Connecticut

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Mad about Shad: Connecticut’s Love Affair with an Oily Fish

A Night to Remember: When the Steamboat Took on the Railroad—and Lost

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Aetna Helps Make Hartford “The Insurance Capital of the World”

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Hartford’s Sex Trade: Prostitutes and Politics

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Katharine Houghton Hepburn, A Woman Before Her Time

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Over Time: Newtown’s Historical Population

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Nellie McKnight Promotes History and Literacy throughout Ellington

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A New Source of Farm Labor Crops Up in Wartime

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Selma, Not So Far Away

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Blizzard of ’88 Shuts Greenwich Off from Outside World

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Connecticut 29th Mustered into Service – Today in History: March 8

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Medicine Woman Gladys Tantaquidgeon and Mohegan Cultural Renewal

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A Feeling of Solidarity: Labor Unions and Suffragists Team Up

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James Mars’ Words Illuminate the Cruelty of Slavery in New England

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Over Time: Greenwich’s Historical Population

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James Lindsey Smith Takes the Underground Railroad to Connecticut

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Venture Smith, from Slavery to Freedom

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John Brown: A Portrait of Violent Abolitionism

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The Interstate Highway System Comes to Hartford

“Free Bobby, Free Ericka”: The New Haven Black Panther Trials

Early Anti-slavery Advocates in 18th-century Connecticut

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New Britain Plays Part in the Underground Railroad

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Over Time: Darien’s Historical Population

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Six Cities Respond to 1902 Waterbury Fire – Who Knew?

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Over Time: New Fairfield’s Historical Population

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Products from New Britain’s Past

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The Long, Ambiguous History of Connecticut’s Blue Laws

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Selling Connecticut Products Abroad

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New Britain’s Yankee Peddlers Boost 18th-century Economy

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Over Time: East Haven’s Historical Population

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The Surprising Prevalence of Earthquake Activity in Connecticut

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The Joshua Hempsted Diary: A Window into Colonial Connecticut

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The Phoenix Building, Hartford

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Powder Hollow in Hazardville – Who Knew?

Norwich’s “Volcanic” Past

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Over Time: Easton’s Historical Population

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The Colt Memorial, Cedar Hill Cemetery

America’s First Woman Governor: Ella Grasso, 1919-1981

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Overland Travel in Connecticut, from Footpaths to Interstates

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Charles Goodyear and the Vulcanization of Rubber

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Farmington Canal Designed to Give Connecticut Commerce a Competitive Edge

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Over Time: Milford’s Historical Population

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Education/Instrucción Combats Housing Discrimination

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Connecticut in the French and Indian War

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Amelia Simmons Adds a Uniquely American Flavor to Cooking

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Charles McLean Andrews and Evangeline Walker Andrews

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Over Time: New Haven’s Historical Population

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Standing at Rest, at Last: The Story of the Forlorn Soldier

Map – Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for Bethel, Fairfield County

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Seymour was Chusetown – Who Knew?

A Bird’s-eye View of Moosup

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Little Sorrel, Connecticut’s Confederate War Horse

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Drawing (on) the Connecticut Landscape: Benjamin Hutchins Coe Teaches Americans the Democratic Art

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American Actor Changes 19th-Century Theater – Who Knew?

Over Time: West Haven’s Historical Population

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Map – Rochambeau’s Camp at Canterbury

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Textile Mills in Oxford Dominated Early Industry

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Combined Rail-and-Water System Makes Norwich a Key Travel Hub in Mid-1800s

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Free Speech for Some – Who Knew?

New Haven: What Was Everyday Life Like During the Civil War?

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A Fair to Forget – Who Knew?

Building a Nation Brick by Brick

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Map – Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for Baltic, New London County

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Teach It Advisory Committee

Saddles Fit For a Shah

Rochambeau Returns Over and Over to Andover

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American Chairs, Made in Connecticut

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Civil War Monuments and Memorials in and Around the State Capitol

Sunday Funday? We Think Not – Who Knew?

Over Time: Stamford’s Historical Population

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Yankee Ingenuity: Curtis Veeder, a Mechanical Genius and Shrewd Businessman

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Over Time: Norwalk’s Historical Population

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Benjamin Silliman and Soda Water – Who Knew?

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Forlorn Soldier Oral History Interviews

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The Old Brownstone Soldier

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The Legend of Old Hayfoot, the Forlorn Soldier

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Commemorating the USS Hartford at the Connecticut State Capitol

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Hall of Flags: Memorial to Connecticut’s Civil War Colors

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The Danbury Hatters

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An Old Saybrook Borough has a Stately History

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The Forlorn Soldier Conservation Ceremony, July 2013

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Pomp and Circumstance: Civil War Commemoration

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Hartford Retreat for the Insane Advanced Improved Standards of Care

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Over Time: Lyme’s Historical Population

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Video: The Story of the Salisbury Iron District

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A Bird’s-eye View of Broad Brook

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Over Time: Old Saybrook’s Historical Population

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Pan-Harmonicum Strikes a New Note for Puritan Worship in Lebanon

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Dynamic Tensions: Conservation and Development up to the 1920s

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Over Time: Preston’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Clinton’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Bridgeport’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Durham’s Historical Population

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A Remarkable Signature – Who Knew?

Over Time: Bethel’s Historical Population

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Hartford’s Nook Farm

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Over Time: Old Lyme’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Branford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Brookfield’s Historical Population

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“Gentleman’s Farming” Comes to Waterford

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Norfolk—Alive With The Sound of Summer Music

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Barn Design in Connecticut

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From Frontier Town to Capital City: Collection Traces Hartford’s Transformation

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What’s in a Number? Connecticut’s Thirteenth Regiment Goes Off to War

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Philip Johnson in His Own Words

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Osborn Correctional Institution

A Shipping and Railroad Magnate Remembers His Connecticut Roots

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Frances Laughlin Wadsworth: Sculpting the Past

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Plainfield Academy: Grooming Connecticut Scholars in the 18th and 19th Centuries

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One Powerful Family in Bozrah

William Edgar Simonds: A Schoolteacher Turned Civil War Hero

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The Park Movement in Hartford

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Stanley Works for New Britain

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Humble Beginnings of the Dow Jones: How a Sterling Farmer Became the Toast of Wall Street

Aldrich Free Public Library: Dedicated to the Dissemination of Knowledge

Connecticut Daredevil Andrew Mamedoff Joins Royal Air Force

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Over Time: Bristol’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Wolcott’s Historical Population

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Mounds Candy Bar Involved in Espionage – Who Knew?

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Over Time: Plymouth’s Historical Population

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When Milk Powered Watertown’s Industry

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Hidden Nearby: Camp Columbia State Park in Morris

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Elias Perkins: One of Lisbon’s Most Accomplished Public Servants

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Over Time: Westbrook’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Essex’s Historical Population

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Semi-Pro Baseball in Sharon – Who Knew?

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Over Time: Deep River’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Chester’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Haddam’s Historical Population

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Over Time: East Haddam’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Salem’s Historical Population

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Over Time: East Lyme’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Waterford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: New London’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Montville’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Groton’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Stonington’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Ledyard’s Historical Population

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Over Time: North Stonington’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Griswold’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Voluntown’s Historical Population

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When Bozrah Provided Comfort to the Nation

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Over Time: Windham’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Marlborough’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Woodstock’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Eastford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Franklin’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Somers’ Historical Population

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Over Time: Lebanon’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Union’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Willington’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Vernon’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Pomfret’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Lisbon’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Stafford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Putnam’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Ellington’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Thompson’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Tolland’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Waterbury’s Historical Population

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Early 20th-Century Immigration in Connecticut

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A Voice for Veterans: A Civil War era ‘Whistle-Blower’ – Who Knew?

The Effects of “Redlining” on the Hartford Metropolitan Region

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Prudence Crandall Museum

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The Pike Family Lived a Life of Dyeing

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Imagining Connecticut

Over Time: Killingworth’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Hamden’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Hampton’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Chaplin’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Plainfield’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Killingly’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Sterling’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Canterbury’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Fairfield’s Historical Population

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Hidden Nearby: Harwinton’s Catlin Trough

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Gideon Welles’s Role in Lincoln’s Cabinet

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Connecticut and American Impressionism

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Thread Your Needle – Today in History: March 2

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When the World Ran on Connecticut Time

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Over Time: Bolton’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Coventry’s Historical Population

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The Corbin Cabinet Lock Company and Patent Law: A Lesson in Novelty from a CT Perspective

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Over Time: Brooklyn’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Monroe’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Harwinton’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Guilford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Madison’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Barkhamsted’s Historical Population

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Hidden Nearby: Jedediah Strong’s Milestone

A Valley Flooded to Slake the Capital Region’s Thirst

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Henry Bacon Helps Beautify Naugatuck

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Workers at the Colt Armory, Hartford 1867

Over Time: Cheshire’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Bethany’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Hebron’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Prospect’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Columbia’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Colchester’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Torrington’s Historical Population

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Merritt Parkway 1939

Two Cornwall Firms Part of Famed Salisbury Iron District

The Yankee Peddler 1850

A Legacy of Thriving Cities 1905

Crew of the Whaling Schooner Margaret 1907

Suburban Development in Litchfield County 1982

New State Capitol 1878

Shade Grown Tobacco, Windsor 1965

Workers at the Eli Terry Clock Factory 1850

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Fort Griswold and the Battle of Groton Heights 1781

Algonquin Man 1645

Welcoming Armenian Immigrants, Hartford, 1920

The Last Wolf in Connecticut

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Wethersfield Academy Est. 1804

A Puritan Landscape New Haven Town Green

Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Est. 1842

Park Street Festival, Hartford 1978

Private Henry Cornwall 1862

Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn Published 1885

Over Time: Woodbury’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Scotland’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Mansfield’s Historical Population

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G. Fox and the Golden Age of Department Stores

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Over Time: Sprague’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Bozrah’s Historical Population

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Family Ties Bring Together North Branford Industry

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Over Time: Beacon Falls’ Historical Population

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Over Time: Washington’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Naugatuck’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Oxford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: New Milford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Middlebury’s Historical Population

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From Kiln to Collection: Norwich Pottery and Its Makers

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Over Time: Glastonbury’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Middlefield’s Historical Population

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Franklin’s Ashbel Woodward was a Battlefield Surgeon and Historian

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Yale University from Colonial Times to the Present

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Over Time: Portland’s Historical Population

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Hidden Nearby: Henry Obookiah’s Cornwall Grave

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Over Time: Simsbury’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Bethlehem’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Manchester’s Historical Population

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Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?

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Over Time: Canaan’s Historical Population

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Ezra Stiles Captured 18th-Century Life on Paper

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Over Time: Wethersfield’s Historical Population

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A Beautiful and Goodly Tree: The Rise and Fall of the American Elm

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Peter’s Rock: North Haven History with a View

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Over Time: New Britain’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Southbury’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Morris’ Historical Population

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Over Time: Thomaston’s Historical Population

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The Scoville Memorial Library

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Over Time: Roxbury’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Bridgewater’s Historical Population

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Over Time: East Hartford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Canton’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Enfield’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Cornwall’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Bloomfield’s Historical Population

Over Time: South Windsor’s Historical Population

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Over Time: East Windsor’s Historical Population

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Quassy: One of the Last of the Old-Time Trolley Parks

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Over Time: North Canaan’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Newington’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Goshen’s Historical Population

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Over Time: East Hampton’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Warren’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Kent’s Historical Population

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Over Time: New Hartford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Watertown’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Rocky Hill’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Hartland’s Historical Population

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Samson Occom and the Brotherton Indians

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Over Time: Southington’s Historical Population

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Zebulon Brockway: A Controversial Figure in Prison Reform

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Over Time: Berlin’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Winchester’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Norfolk’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Burlington’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Litchfield’s Historical Population

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Hidden Nearby: Bethlehem’s Joseph Bellamy Monument

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Over Time: Salisbury’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Colebrook’s Historical Population

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John Frederick Kensett Illuminates the 19th-Century Landscape

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James G. Batterson, Stone Contractor

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The Constitution Oak

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Over Time: Hartford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Meriden’s Historical Population

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Three Young Engineers: Charting New Haven

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Over Time: Granby’s Historical Population

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Over Time: East Granby’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Farmington’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Windsor’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Suffield’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Plainville’s Historical Population

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The Plainville Town Hall Catches Fire

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Over Time: Middletown’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Avon’s Historical Population

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East Haven was Home to Connecticut’s First Iron Works

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Over Time: Cromwell’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Ashford’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Andover’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Ansonia’s Historical Population

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Over Time: Sharon’s Historical Population

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Why Was New Haven Divided into Nine Squares?

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A Volcanic Giant Sleeps in Hamden

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Somers School of the Prophets

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New London’s Indian Mariners

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Daniel Curtiss: The Life of a 19th-Century Self-Made Man

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Connecticut’s Oldest Fire Department

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Enforcing Law and Order in Greenwich

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Honor and Duty: The Life of Alfred Howe Terry

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Over Time: Windsor Locks’ Historical Population

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Firefighters Answer the Call in Greenwich

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Yung Wing’s Dream: The Chinese Educational Mission, 1872-1881

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Disaster at Cold Harbor: Connecticut’s Second Volunteer Heavy Artillery Regiment

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Clarence Dickinson Carries Printing Innovation into the 20th Century

Monument to Hero of the Greenwich Police Department – Who Knew?

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Broadway Comes to Westport

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Connecticut Yankee Brings Power to the People

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A Willington Visionary Preserves the Nation’s Colonial Past

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Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company Puts Best Foot Forward

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Site Lines: Monuments to Connecticut’s Lost County Government

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P. T. Barnum’s Lottery

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“Outcasts” Build Their Own Village in 18th-Century Barkhamsted

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Video – When Disaster Struck: The 1938 Hurricane, Part 3

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The 29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Flag and Display

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Boone Guyton Tested the Limits of World-Famous Aircraft

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Yung Wing, the Chinese Educational Mission, and Transnational Connecticut

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Capital Community College Students Explore Hartford’s Immigrant History…In Their Own Words

Elastic Web Expands Textile Manufacturing in West Haven

Armstrong Finds a Niche in the Tire Market

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Blood on the Hill: The Battle of Groton Heights, September 6, 1781

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The Ebenezer Avery House – Who Knew?

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Bradley Field Enters the Jet Age

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The Story Trail of Voices

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Mohegan Federal Recognition

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Guilford’s One-Man Fire Department

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Alain and May White Memorial Boulder

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Philip Corbin: Manufacturing A Legacy for New Britain

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The Life of Chauncey Jerome: An Insider’s Look at What Made Early Bristol Tick

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Litchfield Historical Society

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Video – When Disaster Struck Connecticut: The Flood of 1955

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Lake Compounce: Bringing Amusements to the State’s Residents Since 1846

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Naugatuck’s Early Chemical Industry

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Anson Dickinson: Milton’s Painter of Portrait Miniatures

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America’s First Planetarium – Who knew?

The Steady Evolution of a Connecticut Family Business

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Lake Pocotopaug Shapes the Growth of East Hampton

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Branford Gets On the Trolley

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Warren Congregational Church, a Longstanding Community Center

Hartford Circus Fire: “The Tent’s on Fire!” – Who Knew?

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

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Harwinton’s Sign has a Long History – Who Knew?

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Picture This: Seeing Connecticut in 3-D

Award-Winning First Year for ConnecticutHistory.org

Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Phelps-Hatheway House and Garden

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The League of American Wheelmen and Hartford’s Albert Pope Champion the Good Roads Movement

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Oldest Cavalry Unit – Who Knew?

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The Legacy of David Miles Hotchkiss

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Orange: Connecticut’s Candy Dispenser

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Connecticut’s “The Legend of the Charter Oak”

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Southington Industry: From Nuts to Bolts

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A Pioneering Connecticut Firearm

Plainville Has Been Flying High for Over 100 Years

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A Hip Road Trip

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Bush-Holley House

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Portland Puts Its Stamp on an Architectural Era

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Surveying Connecticut’s Borders

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Norwich in Perspective

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Weaving the Cultural Fabric of Beacon Falls

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The Answer Is Risom!

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Rock-Solid Industry in 19th-Century Bolton

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The Connecticut Town Green

A History of Libraries Speaks Volumes About Southington

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Washington Didn’t Only Sleep Here: George Washington at Wethersfield’s Webb House

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Stepping Back in Time: North Stonington Village Historic District

Trinity College Students Call Attention to Histories of Inequality

Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Samuel Huntington

Farmington’s Hospital Rock Dates Back to 18th-Century Smallpox Inoculation

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Bird’s-eye Views of Rockville Chart Textile Industry’s Growth

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Eerie Remains of an 18th-Century Settlement in Pomfret

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The “Fancy Chair” Craze of the 1800s: Lambert Hitchcock and the Story of the Hitchcock Chair

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Hervey Brooks’s 19th-Century Pottery Barn

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A Sign of the Times Blends Masonic and Patriotic Imagery

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Connecticut’s Naval Contributions to the Civil War

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Video – Home Front: Connecticut During World War II – Civil Defense

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