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Politics and Government - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project

Connecticut State Seal and Arms


  • Writer:
    Michael Kemezis

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Edward Hopkins: Connecticut’s 2nd Governor


  • Writer:
    Michael Kemezis

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Jonathan Trumbull’s Lebanon War Office: The “Pentagon of the Revolution”


  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Lebanon

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The Connecticut Poll Tax


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Mohegan Federal Recognition


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The Charter of 1662


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Andover to Woodstock: How Connecticut Ended Up with 169 Towns


  • Writer:
    Diana Ross McCain

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Mary Townsend Seymour: Hartford’s Organizer, Activist, and Suffragist


  • Writer:
    Emma Wiley

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Marietta Canty House


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The Revolution of 1817


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Notorious New-Gate Prison


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Hooker’s Journey to Hartford


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The Smith Sisters, Their Cows, and Women’s Rights in Glastonbury


  • Writer:
    Molly May

  • Town(s):
    Glastonbury

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Gideon Welles, US Secretary of the Navy and Lincoln’s “Neptune”


  • Writer:
    Michael Marinaro

  • Town(s):
    Glastonbury

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The Education of Ella Grasso


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Roger Sherman, Revolutionary and Dedicated Public Servant


  • Writer:
    Gregg Mangan

  • Town(s):
    New Haven, New Milford

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The 42-Day Income Tax


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Elizabeth W. Coe Demands the Right of Jury Service


  • Writer:
    Patricia Smedley Buxton

  • Town(s):
    Waterbury

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Bridgeport: The First Borough


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Richard Lee’s Urban Renewal in New Haven


  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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The War Connecticut Hated


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


  • Writer:
    Elaina Rollins

  • Town(s):
    Bloomfield, Hartford

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Dynamic Tensions: Conservation and Development up to the 1920s


  • Writer:
    Leah S. Glaser

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Southbury Takes On the Nazis


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The Legend of the Charter Oak


  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Connecticut State Capitol


  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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The Constitution Oak


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Site Lines: Silas Deane


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