April - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

A Different “Type” of Connecticut Industry

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Education/Instrucción Combats Housing Discrimination

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Wallingford Native Son Signed the Declaration of Independence

Vivien Kellems Takes On the IRS

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A Diversified Mind: Hiram Percy Maxim

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P. T. Barnum: An Entertaining Life

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J. P. Morgan’s Connecticut Roots

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

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Gallaudet’s Vision Advances Deaf Education

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Landscape Architecture Helps in Healing – Who Knew?

The Collapse of the L’Ambiance Plaza

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Ironclad Commissioned – Today in History: April 21

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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Battling Bat Battalino: One of Hartford’s Heroes

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Litchfield’s Revolutionary War Soldiers’ Tree

Celebrating Civil War Men and Women – Today in History: April 9

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New Canaan’s Pioneering Female Physician

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

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A Tale of Shad, the State Fish

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The Smith Sisters, Their Cows, and Women’s Rights in Glastonbury

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Holmes at Home: The Life of William Gillette

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“An Admirable Portrait” of Frederick Douglass

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Vietnam Protests in Connecticut

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Roger Sherman, Revolutionary and Dedicated Public Servant

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The Longest Highway Drawbridge – Who Knew?

The Connecticut River

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USS Tullibee – Today in History: April 27

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

Hamilton Wrecks Aeroplane – Today in History: April 22

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

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A Real Connecticut Yankee’s Baseball Career Cut Short

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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

Horace Bushnell Born – Today in History: April 14

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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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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Amateur Radio Comes of Age in Connecticut

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Forgotten Founder: John Davenport of New Haven

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Andover Lake: A Lesson in Social Change

Josiah Willard Gibbs’s Impact on Modern Science

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

Union Brew

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

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The British Raid on Essex

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

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The Portable Typewriting Machine – Today in History: April 12

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Waterford’s Need for Speed

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

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

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

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Video – Mark Twain at Stormfield

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

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

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A Puritan Landscape New Haven Town Green

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