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Blizzard Halts Mail Delivery – Today in History: February 7

Oldest College Daily – Today in History: January 28

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Civic Center Roof Collapses – Today in History: January 18

Timothy Dwight Dies – Today in History: January 11

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Connecticut Turnpike Opens – Today in History: January 2

Connecticut Native American Arts

Gerald MacGuire and the Plot to Overthrow Franklin Roosevelt

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Sylvester Graham: Progressive Advocate for Healthy Living

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Rosamond Danielson: Windham County Suffragist and Community Leader

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Joseph Alsop: Cunning Political Columnist of Mid-Century America

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Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett Helps Found Greenwich

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History in a Heart

The Lives of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus Told Through their Loving Letters

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    Elizabeth Correia

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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The Smith Sisters and Their Cows Strike a Blow for Equal Rights – Today in History: January 8

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The First US Can Opener – Today in History: January 5

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

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Skating Through Winter

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Chief G’tinemong/Ralph W. Sturges

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A Most Unusual Criminal Execution in New London

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Chick Austin Modernizes a Connecticut Institution

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Amy Johnson: A Mohegan Woman Who Survived Colonialism

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New Haven’s Long Wharf

  • Writer:
    Edward T. Howe

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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West Indians in Hartford

The Storied History behind Connecticut’s Nicknames

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Walt Dropo Stars Throughout New England

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“Washburn Colonials”: Distinguished 1920s Homes Stand the Test of Time

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Seaside Tuberculosis Sanatorium: Waterford’s Contested Oceanfront Gem

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The Rev. Amos Beman’s Devotion to Education, Social Activism, and New Haven

  • Writer:
    Elizabeth Correia

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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Connecticut’s Early Commercial Banks

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Hope on the Wall: Connecticut’s New Deal Post Office Murals

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Connecticut Attorney General John H. Light and His Fight for Woman’s Suffrage

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The Seth Wetmore House: A Storied Structure of 18th Century Middletown

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Jimmy Piersall’s Public Struggle with Mental Illness

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The Minute Man, Westport CT

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Connecticut Domestic Oil Lamp Makers

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Charles Dudley Warner: 19th Century Writer and Social Commentator

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The Yale-Storrs Controversy

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Eugene O’Neill’s Connecticut Connections

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The Hartford Whalers: Connecticut’s Last Major League Sports Franchise

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Vera Buch Weisbord’s “Radical” Life

  • Writer:
    Kevin Hogg

  • Town(s):
    Bristol

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Quinnipiac: The People of the Long Water Land

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The Litchfield Law School: Connecticut’s First Law School

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Chamberlin Mill: A Woodstock Survivor

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Connecticut Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home

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Israel Putnam: A Youthful Trailblazer Turned Colonial Militiaman

  • Writer:
    Patrick J. Mahoney

  • Town(s):
    Brooklyn, Pomfret, Putnam

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The Vonsiatsky Conspiracy Case

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

DN-1: The US Navy’s First Airship

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Trouble in the Connecticut Suburbs: Revolutionary Road

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A Connecticut Slave in George Washington’s Army

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

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The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in Bridgeport: The Case of Bryant Electric

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Site Lines: The Mysterious Blue Lights

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Connecticut Yankee and Millstone: 48 Years of Nuclear Power

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Dr. E. Irene Boardman Never Stopped Serving the Public

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

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Sam Colt’s Funeral: The Day Hartford Stopped

James Williams, More than Trinity College’s Janitor

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Buckling Up For Auto Safety

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Lounsbury Elected Governor – Today in History: January 4

Rivers of Outrage

First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22

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Ruth Hovey: Heroic Battlefield Nurse

  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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USS Confederacy: The Life and Service of Connecticut’s Continental Frigate

The Sandemanians

The Connecticut Valley Authority That Never Was

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Kate Moore: Lighthouse Keeper and Coast Guard Heroine

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Eleazar Wheelock: Preacher, Dartmouth College Founder

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Hartford’s Louis Peterson, Groundbreaking African American Playwright

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Hartford’s Anna Sokolow, Modern Dance Pioneer

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The 1961 Hartford Hospital Fire

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The Wallingford Oneida Community

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Hartford’s Les Payne, Trailblazing Journalist

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Nicholas Grillo and his Thornless Rose

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Trolley Campaigners Storm Small Towns and Votes for Women is the Battle Cry

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Joseph Hopkins Twichell: Asylum Hill’s Religious Leader and Mark Twain’s Closest Friend

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An Eccentric Middletown Polymath and Fossil Collector: Dr. Joseph Barratt

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Early Civil Rights and Cultural Pioneers: The Easton Family

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Votes for A Woman: Sara Buek Crawford

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The Hartford Insurance Investigator With the Action-Packed Expense Account

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Josephine Bennett: Hartford’s City Mother

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The First Yale Unit: How U.S. Navy Aviation Began

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Elizabeth W. Coe Demands the Right of Jury Service

  • Writer:
    Patricia Smedley Buxton

  • Town(s):
    Waterbury

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James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Young Artist in Pomfret

  • Writer:
    Christina Volpe

  • Town(s):
    Pomfret

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Where It All Happened: Connecticut’s Old State House

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Bridgeport: The First Borough

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Abraham Ribicoff dies – Today in History: February 22

Land Purchase Becomes Bushnell Park – Today in History: January 5

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

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Branding Law Enacted – Today in History: February 5

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