December

Aunt Polly and Its Preservation

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The Joshua Hempsted Diary: A Window into Colonial Connecticut

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Apostle of Peace: Elihu Burritt’s Quest for Universal Brotherhood

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Portland’s Guy Hedlund: Actor and Activist

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A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors

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O Christmas Tree!

Pratt & Whitney Debuts Wasp Engine – Today in History: December 24

First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22

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Barkhamsted Reservoir Construction Washes Away a Community

The Kewpies Buy A House in Westport

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The Hartford Convention or Leap no Leap

First Recorded Fall of Meteorites in the United States – Today in History: December 14

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Southbury Takes On the Nazis

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Leroy Anderson Composed Iconic Music in Woodbury

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The Beadle Family Murders – Today in History: December 11

Bevin Brothers Helps Transform East Hampton into Belltown, USA

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Jim Morrison Arrested – Today in History: December 9

The Atheneum Joins War Effort – Who Knew?

Hamden’s Literary Legend

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Transit of Venus: German Scientists Visit Hartford

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The Day Four Trains Collided in East Thompson

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Father of Architects Born – Today in History: December 4

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Women and Defense: World War II on the Connecticut Home Front

Oliver Wolcott Dies – Today in History: December 1

Hidden Nearby: John Brown’s Torrington Birthplace

Hannah Bunce Watson: One of America’s First Female Publishers

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Nancy Toney’s Lifetime in Slavery

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A Godmother to Ravensbrück Survivors

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Hartford Publishes the First Literary Work by an African American – Who Knew?

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First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22

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The Reverend Joseph Bellamy Makes Bethlehem a Holy Place

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A Most Unusual Criminal Execution in New London

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Waterbury’s Holy Land

This Won’t Hurt a Bit! A Brief History of Anesthesia

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Elihu Burritt Born – Today in History: December 8

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Reporting News of Pearl Harbor – Today in History: December 7

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NFL Great, Andy Robustelli of Stamford

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The Pest House Completed – Today in History: December 4

Honor and Duty: The Life of Alfred Howe Terry

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One of the Honored Dead: General J. K. F. Mansfield

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Skating Through Winter

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Chief G’tinemong/Ralph W. Sturges

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Chick Austin Modernizes a Connecticut Institution

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Connecticut’s Christmas Town

Scrabble Copyrighted – Today in History: December 1

William Pinney Does It All for Ellington

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Thomas J. Dodd and the Gun Control Act of 1968

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Providing Bundles for Britain and News for America

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An Inconvenient Season: Charlotte Cowles’s Letters from December 1839

The Hartford Convention – Today in History: December 15

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Charles Goodyear and the Vulcanization of Rubber

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G. Fox and the Golden Age of Department Stores

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The Plainville Town Hall Catches Fire

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