
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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