A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors
December 26, 2018
Philanthropist Caroline Ferriday aided women whose internment at a German concentration camp during WWII left them scarred, physically as well as psychologically. …[more]
Connecticut History Day 2017
Southbury Takes On the Nazis
December 13, 2018
In the late 1930s, in an attempt to avoid a second world war, countries around the globe worked to curb... Read more » …[more]
Categories: Connecticut History Day 2017, Great Depression and World War II, Politics and Government, Southbury, World War II
America’s First Ordained Woman Minister: Olympia Brown and Bridgeport’s Universalist Church
November 26, 2018
Long-time Bridgeport resident Olympia Brown was the first woman ordained as a minister in the United States and campaigned vigorously for women's suffrage. …[more]
Categories: Belief, Bridgeport, Connecticut History Day 2017, Women
“Negroes Who Stand Up and Fight Back” – Paul Robeson in Hartford
November 15, 2018
Called the "greatest mobilization of police in the city's history," the event that brought law enforcement out in force to Keney Park was not a riot, not a strike, but a concert by this singer-actor and activist. …[more]
Categories: Arts, Connecticut History Day 2017, Enfield, Hartford, Social Movements, Work
Connecticut Lawyer Prosecutes Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg
November 9, 2018
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Thomas Joseph Dodd, a Norwich-born lawyer from Connecticut, served on the United... Read more » …[more]
Categories: Connecticut History Day 2017, Crime and Punishment, Great Depression and World War II, Law, War and Defense, World War II
Literacy Tests and the Right To Vote
November 5, 2018
Connecticut was the first state to require a literacy test of would-be voters and, even as the practice came under fire as a tool of discrimination, the state held steady until 1970. …[more]
Categories: Agriculture, Business and Industry, Connecticut History Day 2017, Law, Politics and Government, Postwar United States, Social Movements, Windsor, Work
The Rise and Fall of Silas Deane, American Patriot
October 2, 2018
Esteemed by his fellow patriots as a savvy diplomat who helped cement a strategic alliance with France during the American Revolution, Deane spent his final years under a cloud of suspicion. …[more]
Categories: Connecticut History Day 2017, Groton, Politics and Government, Revolutionary War, Silas Deane, Wethersfield
The Amistad
August 24, 2018
After slaves revolted and took control of the Amistad in 1839, Americans captured the ship off Long Island and imprisoned the slaves in New Haven. A US Supreme Court trial in which Roger Sherman Baldwin and John Quincy Adams defended the slaves, ultimately won them their freedom. …[more]
Categories: Connecticut History Day 2017, Crime and Punishment, Expansion and Reform, Law, New Haven, New London, Slavery and Abolition
A First Amendment Lesson: Weaver High Students Teach Their Elders
May 3, 2018
In the 1960s, Hartford high school students published a controversial newspaper that sparked debates about freedom of speech and freedom of the press. …[more]
Categories: Connecticut History Day 2017, Education, Hartford, Social Movements
World War I Flying Ace Raoul Lufbery
April 6, 2018
Although his time as a Connecticut resident was short, this aviator left his mark on Wallingford and a generation fighter pilots. …[more]
