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August - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
Yankee Ingenuity: Curtis Veeder, a Mechanical Genius and Shrewd Businessman
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Fitch Soldiers’ Home Closes – Today in History: August 28
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William O’Neill: Climbing Up the Political Ladder
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Discovered Dinosaur Tracks Re-Route Highway and Lead to State Park
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19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut
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Danbury Prison Protest – Today in History: August 11
The Amistad
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Connecticut’s “The Legend of the Charter Oak”
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The Importance of Being Puritan: Church and State in Colonial Connecticut
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Theodate Pope Riddle Dies – Today in History: August 30
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Lisbon Tunnel Completed – Today in History: August 28
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Charles Grandison Finney Spreads Revivalism and Education throughout the Mississippi Valley
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Rails and Paper Trails
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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Connecticut Draws the Curtain on Public Executions
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Defending Connecticut: Fortifying New London Against the British in 1812
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The Great Wallingford Tornado – Today in History: August 9
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Hidden Nearby: The Bantam Lake Ice House
Home Missionary Society’s First Missionary – Today in History: August 7
Washington’s Sister Susie Society
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Artist Roger Tory Peterson, a Champion for the Natural World
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An Artist’s Life in Hartford: The Early Career of Dwight Tryon
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Gifford Pinchot: Bridging Two Eras of National Conservation
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The Language of the Unheard: Racial Unrest in 20th-Century Hartford
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Portland’s Guy Hedlund: Actor and Activist
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Seth Thomas Works Around the Clock in Wolcott
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Goshen Fairs Well with Agricultural Enthusiasts
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Sylvester Poli, Negotiating Cultural Politics in an Age of Immigration
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Halladay’s Revolutionary Windmill – Today in History: August 29
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And They’re Off!: Harness Racing at Charter Oak Park
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Torrington Recovers after the Flood of ‘55
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Eighteen-hundred-and-froze-to-death: 1816, The Year Without a Summer
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Living Rituals: Mohegan Wigwam Festival
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Horror on the Housatonic: The Railroad Disaster of August 1865
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Mastodon Bones Unearthed – Today in History: August 13
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America’s Most Devastating Conflict: King Philip’s War
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Hurricanes Connie & Diane Deliver Double Hit – Who Knew?
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Intertwining Family Businesses
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The Stonington Battle Flag
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The Shoe Box Murder Mystery
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Improving Sea Transportation: Guilford Goes About it the Light Way
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Branford’s History Is Set in Stone
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USS Nautilus Passes Under North Pole – Today in History: August 3
Launching of the USS Nautilus 1954
Poet Wallace Stevens Dies – Today in History: August 2
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Miss Huntley’s School Opens – Today in History: August 1
Colt Park and the Magical Summer of 1976
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Women Win the Right to Vote
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Sunday Funday? We Think Not – Who Knew?
Video – When Disaster Struck Connecticut: The Flood of 1955
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