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Connecticut Issues Same-Sex Marriage Licenses for the First Time – Today In History: November 12
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The Trailblazing Bessye Bennett
Race Restrictive Covenants in Property Deeds
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The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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Connecticut Ratifies US Constitution – Today in History: January 9
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The Living Actually Haunted Many Connecticut Taverns – Who Knew?
The Connecticut Poll Tax
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Connecticut Residents Did Not Let Veterans Day “Go Commercial.”
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Mohegan Federal Recognition
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Eighteen Years in the Making: Connecticut’s 1991 Gay Rights Law
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Education/Instrucción Combats Housing Discrimination
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Literacy Tests and the Right To Vote
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Connecticut’s Official State Flag – Who Knew?
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Grounds for Divorce – Who Knew?
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19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut
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The Long, Ambiguous History of Connecticut’s Blue Laws
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Roger Sherman Dies – Today in History: July 23
Emmeline Pankhurst’s “Freedom or Death” Speech Energizes Connecticut Women in 1913
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The Charter of 1662
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Constance Baker Motley: A Warrior for Justice
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The Amistad
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Griswold v. Connecticut – Today in History: June 7
The Incident of the Stonington Schooner ‘Breakwater’: A View from Indian Country
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Stonington
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A Public Responsibility: Conservation and Development in the 20th Century
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Playing with Time: The Introduction of Daylight Saving Time in Connecticut
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The Corbin Cabinet Lock Company and Patent Law: A Lesson in Novelty from a CT Perspective
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Richard Reihl: The Hate Crime That Became a Turning Point for LGBTQ+ Civil Rights
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Uriah Tracy Authors the Rules for Impeachment
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Rubber Vulcanization and the Myth of Nathaniel Hayward
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Elizabeth Bentley Born – Today in History: January 1
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First New-Gate Prisoner – Today in History: December 22
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Thomas J. Dodd and the Gun Control Act of 1968
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The White Pine Acts – Who Knew?
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New London’s Indian Mariners
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Taking on the State: Griswold v. Connecticut
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Nancy Finlay
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New Haven
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The Articles of Confederation: America’s First Constitution
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How the Wobblies Won Free Speech
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Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut – Today in History: November 1
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Notorious New-Gate Prison
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Reckoning with the Dutch: the Treaty of Hartford, 1650
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Child Labor vs. Schooling in 19th-century Naugatuck
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Five Minutes that Changed Connecticut: Simon Bernstein and the 1965 Connecticut Education Amendment
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Connecticut Draws the Curtain on Public Executions
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Connecticut Attorney General John H. Light and His Fight for Woman’s Suffrage
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Private vs. Public Property – Today in History: June 23
The Platt Amendment – Today in History: June 12
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Alse Young Executed for Witchcraft – Today in History: May 26
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The Yale-Storrs Controversy
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The Litchfield Law School: Connecticut’s First Law School
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Connecticut and the Comstock Law
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The Smith Sisters, Their Cows, and Women’s Rights in Glastonbury
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Jackson v. Bulloch and the End of Slavery in Connecticut
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First General Copyright Law – Today in History: January 29
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Buckling Up For Auto Safety
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Ending the Danbury Shakes: A Story of Workers’ Rights and Corporate Responsibility
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Connecticut Lawyer Prosecutes Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg
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Witchcraft in Connecticut
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[Archived] Accidental Shooting Leads to Witchcraft Conviction – Today in History: October 3
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Windsor
Accidental Shooting Leads to Witchcraft Conviction – Today in History: October 3
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Windsor
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Capital Punishment in Connecticut: Changing Views
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The 42-Day Income Tax
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Wethersfield Prison Blues
Trolley Campaigners Storm Small Towns and Votes for Women is the Battle Cry
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Sheff v. O’Neill – Today in History: July 9
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The Lemon Law – Today in History: June 4
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Parking Authority Created in New Haven – Today in History: June 2
Mary Hall: Connecticut’s First Female Attorney
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Setting Speed Limits – Today in History: May 21
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New-Gate Prison Breakout – Today in History: May 18
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Connecticut Suffragists 1919
A Day for Women – Today in History: March 8
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Andover Lake: A Lesson in Social Change
Abraham Ribicoff dies – Today in History: February 22
How Real Estate Practices Influenced the Hartford Region’s Demographic Makeup
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First General Copyright Law – Today in History: January 29
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Gradual Emancipation Reflected the Struggle of Some to Envision Black Freedom
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Connecticut Poor Law Aimed to Care for the Needy
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The Connecticut Ratification Convention
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Branding Law Enacted – Today in History: February 5
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An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1776-1818
Video: No Booze for You – Who Knew?
Sheff v. O’Neill Settlements Target Educational Segregation In Hartford
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100 Years of Workers’ Compensation
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Early Anti-slavery Advocates in 18th-century Connecticut
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Free Speech for Some – Who Knew?
Sunday Funday? We Think Not – Who Knew?
Osborn Correctional Institution
The Effects of “Redlining” on the Hartford Metropolitan Region
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Prudence Crandall Museum
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New State Capitol 1878
Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Litchfield Historical Society
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Looking Back: How the Vote Was Won
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Tedd Levy
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Old Saybrook
Prudence Crandall Fights for Equal Access to Education
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