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Politics and Government - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
An Old Saybrook Borough has a Stately History
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Hartford Wide-Awakes – Today in History: July 26
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Herbert Abrams Immortalizes the Nation’s Leaders
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Orville Platt Helps Define International Relations after the Spanish-American War
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Did You Know a Connecticut Governor Was a US Spy?
P. T. Barnum: An Entertaining Life
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Connecticut Attorney General John H. Light and His Fight for Woman’s Suffrage
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The Platt Amendment – Today in History: June 12
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Hooker’s Journey to Hartford
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First Woman Elected as US State Governor Born – Today in History: May 10
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Gifford Pinchot: Bridging Two Eras of National Conservation
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Connecticut and the Comstock Law
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Anna Elizabeth Dickinson at Touro Hall – Today in History: March 24
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The Smith Sisters, Their Cows, and Women’s Rights in Glastonbury
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Gideon Welles, US Secretary of the Navy and Lincoln’s “Neptune”
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Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Rally – Today in History: March 5
Site Lines: The Mysterious Blue Lights
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The Fundamental Orders: Connecticut’s Role in Early Constitutional Government
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Connecticut and the Embargo Act of 1807
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The Education of Ella Grasso
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Lounsbury Elected Governor – Today in History: January 4
The Hartford Convention or Leap no Leap
Oliver Wolcott Dies – Today in History: December 1
The Connecticut Valley Authority That Never Was
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Hiram Bingham III: Machu Picchu Explorer and Politician
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A Separate Place: The New Haven Colony, 1638-1665
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Hiding the Charter: Images of Joseph Wadsworth’s Legendary Action
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Roger Griswold: A Governor Not Afraid To Challenge Authority
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Hartford and New Haven: A Tale of Two Capitals
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The US Constitutional Convention: America Forms a Bicameral Legislature
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Roger Sherman, Revolutionary and Dedicated Public Servant
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Capital Punishment in Connecticut: Changing Views
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The Rise and Fall of Silas Deane, American Patriot
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The 42-Day Income Tax
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From the State Historian: The Final Journey of Nathaniel Lyon
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The Peace Movement in Litchfield
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Richard Lee’s Urban Renewal in New Haven
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The Connecticut Compromise – Today in History: July 16
Votes for A Woman: Sara Buek Crawford
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The Free Consent of the People: Thomas Hooker and the Fundamental Orders
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Josephine Bennett: Hartford’s City Mother
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Exploring Early Connecticut Mapmaking
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Elizabeth W. Coe Demands the Right of Jury Service
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An Orderly and Decent Government
Connecticut Suffragists 1919
Where It All Happened: Connecticut’s Old State House
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John H. Trumbull: Connecticut’s “Flying Governor”
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Bridgeport: The First Borough
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Abraham Ribicoff dies – Today in History: February 22
A Successful Lawyer and Politician Who Never Went to College
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Charles McLean Andrews and Evangeline Walker Andrews
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The Connecticut Ratification Convention
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The Legend of the Charter Oak
Senator Oliver Ellsworth’s Judiciary Act
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Hard Times: Governor Wilbur Cross and the Great Depression in Connecticut
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Governor Chester Bowles Dies – Today in History: May 25
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An Orderly & Decent Government: A New State, A New Constitution, 1776-1818
An Orderly & Decent Government: Business and Government, 1905-1929
An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1776-1818
An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1888-1905
An Orderly & Decent Government: Establishing Self Government, 1634-1776
An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1634-1776
An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1888-1905
An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1888-1905
An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1929-1964
An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1905-1929
An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1905-1929
An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1905-1929
An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1929-1964
An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1866-1887
An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1929-1964
An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1965-Now
An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1776-1818
An Orderly & Decent Government: A Co-Equal Branch of Government, 1965-Now
An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1965-Now
An Orderly & Decent Government: Crisis and Recovery, 1929-1964
An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1965-Now
Early Anti-slavery Advocates in 18th-century Connecticut
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William Edgar Simonds: A Schoolteacher Turned Civil War Hero
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Elias Perkins: One of Lisbon’s Most Accomplished Public Servants
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Gideon Welles’s Role in Lincoln’s Cabinet
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New State Capitol 1878
A Puritan Landscape New Haven Town Green
The Constitution Oak
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Old State House
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Site Lines: Silas Deane
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Video – Hidden History: Old Hartford State House
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