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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