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Canterbury, New London
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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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The Socially Dynamic Drumlin of Foss Hill
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Oldest College Daily – Today in History: January 28
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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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A Willington Visionary Preserves the Nation’s Colonial Past
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Owen Rogers
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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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Maria Colón Sánchez, State Representative and Community Advocate
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Yung Wing, the Chinese Educational Mission, and Transnational Connecticut
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The Story Trail of Voices
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Emma Hart Willard: Leader in Women’s Education
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Elizabeth Correia
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Hartford
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Hidden Nearby: The Morris Academy
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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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Connecticut Origins Shape New Light Luminary Jonathan Edwards
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Kenneth Minkema
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Bolton, South Windsor
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Sarah Pierce’s Litchfield Female Academy
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The Yale-Storrs Controversy
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Connecticut Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home
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Avon’s Educational and Cultural Pioneer
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The American School for the Deaf – Today in History: April 15
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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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Colin O'Keefe
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Middletown
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Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education
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Steve Thornton
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Hartford
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Five Minutes that Changed Connecticut: Simon Bernstein and the 1965 Connecticut Education Amendment
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Elaina Rollins
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Bloomfield, Hartford
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William Edgar Simonds: A Schoolteacher Turned Civil War Hero
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Wethersfield Academy
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The Scoville Memorial Library
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Samson Occom and the Brotherton Indians
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Connecticut Takes the Wheel on Education Reform: Project Concern
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Amanda Gurren
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Hartford
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Prudence Crandall Fights for Equal Access to Education
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