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[Archived] Sarah Harris Fayerweather

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    Emily Clark

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    Canterbury, New London

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Sarah Harris Fayerweather

  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Canterbury, New London

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    46CANNWV

Linonian and Brothers in Unity: The Societies that Built Yale University’s Library

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Connecticut College for Women: The State’s First All-Female Institution of Higher Learning

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Miss Porter’s School in Farmington

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Lillian Hoban: Beloved Illustrator of “I Can Read” Books

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Actress Gwen Reed Best Remembered for Dedication to Childhood Literacy

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The Socially Dynamic Drumlin of Foss Hill

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

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Oldest College Daily – Today in History: January 28

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Music Vale Seminary in Salem Credited as Being First in US

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Timothy Dwight Dies – Today in History: January 11

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Benjamin Silliman and the Collection That Inspired the Yale Peabody Museum

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Somers School of the Prophets

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Colonel Ruth A. Lucas: Literary Advocate

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Laura Wheeler Waring: Renowned African American Portrait Artist and Educator

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The Merger That Was Not Meant To Be: Yale University and Vassar College

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Children of the Reconcentrados: Caroline Selden’s Cuban School

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A Willington Visionary Preserves the Nation’s Colonial Past

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Helen James Chisholm: A Hartford Teacher in Hawaii

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Rewriting the Norm: How Two East Haddam Women Revolutionized Nonsexist Language

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Discovered Dinosaur Tracks Re-Route Highway and Lead to State Park

  • Writer:
    Owen Rogers

  • Town(s):
    Rocky Hill

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The Connecticut Houses that Ended Up in Massachusetts

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Lee’s Academy: An Icon of Education for 200 Years

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Maritime History: The Founding of the United States Coast Guard Academy

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Plainfield Academy: Grooming Connecticut Scholars in the 18th and 19th Centuries

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Maria Sánchez, State Representative and Community Advocate

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Yung Wing, the Chinese Educational Mission, and Transnational Connecticut

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Arbor Day’s Roots in Connecticut – Who Knew?

UConn and the Evolution of a Public University

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The Story Trail of Voices

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Faith Trumbull: The Artist Was a Young Girl

Ezra Stiles Captured 18th-Century Life on Paper

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Nellie McKnight Promotes History and Literacy throughout Ellington

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Emma Hart Willard: Leader in Women’s Education

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The Lives of Addie Brown and Rebecca Primus Told Through their Loving Letters

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Edward Alexander Bouchet: The First African American to Earn a PhD from an American University

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Henry Barnard Advances State and National Education Initiatives

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Hidden Nearby: Henry Obookiah’s Cornwall Grave

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Hidden Nearby: The Morris Academy

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Thanksgiving and Christmas at Long Lane, 1874

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The First University of Connecticut Trustees

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Yung Wing’s Dream: The Chinese Educational Mission, 1872-1881

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Timothy Dwight Provides Religious, Military, and Educational Services for a Young Country

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Connecticut Origins Shape New Light Luminary Jonathan Edwards

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Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education

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From Aprons to Lab Coats: The Art and Science of Home Economics

Prudence Crandall Fights for Equal Access to Education

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Child Labor vs. Schooling in 19th-century Naugatuck

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Connecticut Revolutionized Geography – Who Knew?

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The Child’s Picture Defining and Reading Book by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet

Five Minutes that Changed Connecticut: Simon Bernstein and the 1965 Connecticut Education Amendment

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Reading, Writing, and the Great Outdoors: Frederick Gunn’s School Transforms Victorian-era Education

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Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy

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Helen Keller in Connecticut: The Last Years of a Legendary Crusader

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Noah Webster and the Dream of a Common Language

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Homer D. Babbidge, Leader in Education

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The Yale-Storrs Controversy

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Amos Bronson Alcott Changes the Way Connecticut Children Learn

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Gallaudet’s Vision Advances Deaf Education

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The Litchfield Law School: Connecticut’s First Law School

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Much Good Might be Accomplished: Catharine Esther Beecher and the Pursuit of Domestic Economy

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Connecticut Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home

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Hilda Crosby Standish, Early Proponent of Women’s Reproductive Health

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James Williams, More than Trinity College’s Janitor

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Eleazar Wheelock: Preacher, Dartmouth College Founder

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An Experiment in Evangelization: Cornwall’s Foreign Mission School

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Avon’s Educational and Cultural Pioneer

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When Old Saybrook Was a College Town

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State Heroine Prudence Crandall

Trinity College – Scholarship and Community Engagement

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Miss Huntley’s School Opens – Today in History: August 1

Hope for the West: The Life and Mission of Lyman Beecher

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Sheff v. O’Neill – Today in History: July 9

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Educator Sarah Pierce Born – Today in History: June 26

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Instruction by Mail: The Famous Artists School

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Academy Graduates First African American Student – Today in History: June 8

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Helen Keller Dies – Today in History: June 1

A First Amendment Lesson: Weaver High Students Teach Their Elders

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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

The Northern Student Movement

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The Innumerable Accolades Afforded Dr. William H. Welch

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Olin Library and The Debate About Open Space at Wesleyan University

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Video – Undersea University – US Navy’s Submarine School

Fire at Wesleyan’s North College – Today in History: March 1

An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1819-1865

An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1965-Now

Yale University from Colonial Times to the Present

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

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Video – Rudolph Zallinger’s Masterpiece, “The Age of Reptiles”

Norfolk—Alive With The Sound of Summer Music

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A Shipping and Railroad Magnate Remembers His Connecticut Roots

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William Edgar Simonds: A Schoolteacher Turned Civil War Hero

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Hidden Nearby: Camp Columbia State Park in Morris

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Prudence Crandall Museum

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Wethersfield Academy Est. 1804

The Scoville Memorial Library

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Samson Occom and the Brotherton Indians

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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Litchfield Historical Society

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Connecticut Takes the Wheel on Education Reform: Project Concern

  • Writer:
    Amanda Gurren

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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