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Navigating Connecticut Safely: The Green Book’s Role in African American Travel

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Middletown’s Beman Triangle: A Testament to Black Freedom and Resilience

  • Writer:
    Jesse Nasta

  • Town(s):
    Middletown

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Hebron’s Josephine Sophia (White) Griffing and a Vision for Post-Emancipation America

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Thomas Short – Connecticut’s First Official Printer

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John Warner Barber’s Engravings Chronicle Connecticut History

  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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Connecticut Issues Same-Sex Marriage Licenses for the First Time – Today In History: November 12

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Early Connecticut Gas Light Companies

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Banner Lodge: A Vacation Playground for an Excluded Population

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A Revolution in Horse Power: The Hartford & Wethersfield Horse Railroad Goes Electric

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The Welcoming Warmth of Kent’s Seven Hearths

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Connecticut’s French Connections

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The Road to Busytown: Richard Scarry’s Life in Fairfield County

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Food Needed to Win the War Comes from Washington

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Sarah Boone: First Connecticut Black Woman to Receive Patent

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Boot Blacks and the Struggle to Survive in Hartford

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A Beautiful and Goodly Tree: The Rise and Fall of the American Elm

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Building an Armenian Community in New Britain

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A Turn-of-the-Century New Year’s Eve

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Early Church Bell Founders

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Bird’s-eye Views Offer Idealized Portraits of Progress

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Middletown’s Reservoirs Drive Growth Throughout the 19th and 20th Centuries

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Connecticut’s Christmas Town

The Living Actually Haunted Many Connecticut Taverns – Who Knew?

Sending Season’s Greetings: Christmas Cards in Connecticut

Little Nutmeggers: Four Centuries of Children’s Clothes and Games

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The Ives Manufacturing Company: Connecticut’s Foremost Toy Maker

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Waste Not, Want Not: The Colonial Era Midden

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Goshen’s Animal Pound

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Scandal in the Beecher Family

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Connecticut Residents Did Not Let Veterans Day “Go Commercial.”

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Why Was New Haven Divided into Nine Squares?

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The Stamford Foundry Company Made Notable Stoves

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The Art of Burying the Dead: Exploring Connecticut’s Historic Cemeteries

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The Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper – Today in History: October 29

Hartford’s Industrial Day – Today in History: October 7

Lobsters and Oysters and Clams: A Short History of Seafood in Connecticut

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Saddles Fit For a Shah

P. T. Barnum’s Lottery

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Birthplace of the Gerber Baby – Who Knew?

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Grounds for Divorce – Who Knew?

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

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Connecticut’s First Mutual Savings Bank Opens in Hartford

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The Connecticut Houses that Ended Up in Massachusetts

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A Busy Airfield in Bethany

Moses Wheeler: Legendary Housatonic Ferryman

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Talcott Mountain: A View of Early New England

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The Long, Ambiguous History of Connecticut’s Blue Laws

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The Connecticut Town Green

Indian Hill Cemetery and the Landscaping of Burial Grounds in the Mid-19th Century

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Hartford Circus Fire: “The Tent’s on Fire!” – Who Knew?

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WDRC AM/FM – Connecticut’s Oldest Commercial Radio Station

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Past Perfect: Wallace Nutting Invents an Ideal Olde New England

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The Old Leatherman Alive in Our Memories

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Hervey Brooks’s 19th-Century Pottery Barn

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The “Fancy Chair” Craze of the 1800s: Lambert Hitchcock and the Story of the Hitchcock Chair

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Louis’ Lunch and the Birth of the Hamburger

  • Writer:
    Owen Rogers

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

Jared Eliot Calls on Colonists to Change their Agricultural Practices

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Edith Watson: Camera Artist

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A History of Libraries Speaks Volumes About Southington

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UConn and the Evolution of a Public University

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Aldrich Free Public Library: Dedicated to the Dissemination of Knowledge

The Lebanon Grange Followed a Different Tune than National Movement

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A Night to Remember: When the Steamboat Took on the Railroad—and Lost

The Unsteady Meaning of “The Land of Steady Habits”

The Reader’s Feast: A Bookstore Ahead of Its Time

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Playing with Time: The Introduction of Daylight Saving Time in Connecticut

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Ezra Stiles Captured 18th-Century Life on Paper

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Miss James, First Woman Pharmacist in CT Right in Old Saybrook

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A Feeling of Solidarity: Labor Unions and Suffragists Team Up

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Luna Park: A 20th-century Story of Amusement and Morality

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History in a Heart

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

  • Writer:
    Elizabeth Correia

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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A Valley Flooded to Slake the Capital Region’s Thirst

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LGBTQ+ Mental Health Treatment in the 20th Century

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G. Fox and the Golden Age of Department Stores

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First Connecticut Carpet Mills Emerge in Simsbury and Enfield

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From Kiln to Collection: Norwich Pottery and Its Makers

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New Britain’s Yankee Peddlers Boost 18th-century Economy

Bridgeport’s WPKN: Going Strong After Half a Century

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Skating Through Winter

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Phillips’ Milk of Magnesia Originated in Stamford

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

Beechmont Dairy: Bridgeport’s Ice Cream to Die For

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Cromwell’s Iron Men Made Toys for Boys and Girls

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The Slow Demise of Prohibition in Wilton

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Setting the Table in Historic Style: Connecticut Views on Staffordshire China

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Connecticut’s Oldest Fire Department

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Past Hallowe’en Pranks Bemused Some and Frustrated Others

West Indians in Hartford

The Great Danbury State Fair & Early 20th-Century Outdoor Advertising

Site Lines: Connecticut’s Freedom Trail

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

A Pie Tin’s Soaring Sales

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Connecticut Draws the Curtain on Public Executions

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Connecticut’s Early Commercial Banks

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Lake Pocotopaug Shapes the Growth of East Hampton

Death and Mourning in the Civil War Era

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The White Mountain Express Derails in Greenwich

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Waterbury Farming in the Late 1800s

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Farming as Recycling: The Becces in the North End

Brass City/Grass Roots: From Farmers to Developers: The Rasmussens of Town Plot

Brass City/Grass Roots: The Pierponts of East Farms

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Struggles and Decline

Brass City/Grass Roots: Food Marketing and Processing as Part of Civic Culture

Brass City/Grass Roots: What Makes a Farm a Farm? Other Sites of Food Production in Waterbury

Brass City/Grass Roots: Remnants and Revivals

Brass City/Grass Roots: Bucks Hill: Waterbury’s Rural Holdout

Pepperidge Farm Opens Bakery – Today in History: July 4

Greenwich Emergency Responders: On the Move Overtime

Memorial Day 1920 Brings a Changing of the Guard

Timeline: Settlement of the Colony of Connecticut

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Built on Innovation, Saved by Nostalgia: Hitchcock Chair Company

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Re-creating Our National Pastime

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Child Labor in Connecticut

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From Bombs to Bras: World War I Conservation Measures Transform the Lives of Women

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Hartford’s Great Migration through Charles S. Johnson’s Eyes

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Site Lines: Fortresses of Faith, Agents of Change

Laboring in the Shade

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Trouble in the Connecticut Suburbs: Revolutionary Road

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Anna Louise James Makes History with Medicine

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The Joshua Hempsted Diary: A Window into Colonial Connecticut

  • Writer:
    Patricia M. Schaefer

  • Town(s):
    New London

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The Great Remedy: Picturing the Emancipation Proclamation

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O Christmas Tree!

The Rogerenes Leave Their Mark on Connecticut Society

  • Writer:
    Patricia M. Schaefer

  • Town(s):
    Ledyard, Waterford

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Mr. & Mrs. Rockwell’s Park

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Amelia Simmons Adds a Uniquely American Flavor to Cooking

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The Aqua Velva State – Today in History: November 17

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Any Month with an “R” in It: Eating Oysters in Connecticut

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New Haven: What Was Everyday Life Like During the Civil War?

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Hartford’s “Little Italy”

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Indian Hill Cemetery and the Vernacular of the Times

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The 42-Day Income Tax

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A Day of Celebration – Today in History: September 17

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Sylvester Poli, Negotiating Cultural Politics in an Age of Immigration

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Savin Rock Park: “Connecticut’s Coney Island”

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New Connecticut on Lake Erie: Connecticut’s Western Reserve

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The Story of the Oakdale Makes Great Theater

Harkness Memorial Park Offers a Glimpse into Early 20th Century Wealth

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The Newsies Strike Back

The Connecticut River

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The Hartford Wheel Club: Disparity in the Gilded Age

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How Real Estate Practices Influenced the Hartford Region’s Demographic Makeup

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Connecticut Poor Law Aimed to Care for the Needy

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North Stonington Fairs Preserve Connecticut’s Agricultural Heritage

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A Special Place to Honor Military Veterans in Plainville

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A Bird’s-eye View of Bridgeport

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President Grant Celebrates Independence Day in Woodstock – Today in History: July 4

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Wesleyan Hills Helps Redefine Suburbia

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The Darlings Make Preservation a Family Affair

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Diamonds of the Past: Hartford’s Lost Ball Parks

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George Washington Slept Here (Just Perhaps Not Well)

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A Bird’s-eye View of New Britain

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The Decorative Arts of Connecticut

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Raise a Glass to Winemaking in Connecticut

  • Writer:
    Amy Gagnon

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Hidden Nearby: The Bantam Lake Ice House

A Bird’s-eye View of Moosup

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A Fair to Remember in Brooklyn

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Living Rituals: Mohegan Wigwam Festival

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A Bird’s-eye View of Broad Brook

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Hartford’s Nook Farm

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A Tale of Shad, the State Fish

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Tavern Signs Mark Changes in Travel, Innkeeping, and Artistic Practice

  • Writer:
    Susan P. Schoelwer

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Semi-Pro Baseball in Sharon – Who Knew?

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Hidden Nearby: Harwinton’s Catlin Trough

Park Street Festival, Hartford 1978

The Scoville Memorial Library

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“Outcasts” Build Their Own Village in 18th-Century Barkhamsted

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Warren Congregational Church, a Longstanding Community Center

Norwich in Perspective

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Rock-Solid Industry in 19th-Century Bolton

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Bird’s-eye Views of Rockville Chart Textile Industry’s Growth

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A Sign of the Times Blends Masonic and Patriotic Imagery

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The Rise of the “Second Home” Community in Sharon – Who Knew?

  • Writer:
    Sharon Historical Society

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    Sharon

Bird’s-eye Views of Winsted

  • Writer:
    Kate Steinway

  • Town(s):
    Winchester

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North Stonington’s Randall House, Nothing Ordinary about It

  • Writer:
    CTH Staff

  • Town(s):
    North Stonington

A Bird’s-eye View of East Haddam

  • Writer:
    Kate Steinway

  • Town(s):
    East Haddam

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Labor Day at the Turn of the 20th Century

Joshua Hempsted Born – Today in History: September 1

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Preserving an All-American Downtown in Torrington

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The Art of Life and Death in Colonial Bolton

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Branford Gets On the Trolley

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