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Hartford Wide-Awakes – Today in History: July 26

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Reading, Writing, and the Great Outdoors: Frederick Gunn’s School Transforms Victorian-era Education

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Connecticut Suffragists Appeal to the President – Today in History: July 12

Connecticut Attorney General John H. Light and His Fight for Woman’s Suffrage

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Henry Ward Beecher, a Preacher with Political Clout

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Helen Keller in Connecticut: The Last Years of a Legendary Crusader

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John Brown Born – Today in History: May 9

Amos Bronson Alcott Changes the Way Connecticut Children Learn

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Vietnam Veterans Against the War – Today in History: April 19

Child Labor in Connecticut

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Carl Sandburg, Poet from the Grassroots, Reaches Connecticut Audiences

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Bridgeport Women Answer the Call – Today in History: April 15

New Canaan’s Pioneering Female Physician

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Swinging for the Fences: Connecticut’s Black Baseball Greats

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Vera Buch Weisbord’s “Radical” Life

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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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Elihu Burritt Dies – Today in History: March 6

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Looking Back: Tempest Tossed, the Story of Isabella Beecher Hooker

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Malcolm X in Hartford: “Our Mission is Not Violence but Freedom”

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The Fugitive and the Hero

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The Language of the Unheard: Racial Unrest in 20th-Century Hartford

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Laboring in the Shade

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Rivers of Outrage

Ending the Danbury Shakes: A Story of Workers’ Rights and Corporate Responsibility

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The Battle for Cockenoe Island

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The Temperance Movement in Connecticut – Today in History: October 27

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Capital Punishment in Connecticut: Changing Views

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The Wallingford Oneida Community

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Hartford’s Les Payne, Trailblazing Journalist

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The Peace Movement in Litchfield

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The Sand Hogs Set the Foundation for the Bulkeley Bridge

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Liberian Independence Day

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Medical Pioneer Eli Todd born – Today in History: July 22

Trolley Campaigners Storm Small Towns and Votes for Women is the Battle Cry

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The Most Famous American in the World

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Early Civil Rights and Cultural Pioneers: The Easton Family

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“Something to Show for Our Work”: Building Brainard Airport

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Helen Keller Dies – Today in History: June 1

Mary Hall: Connecticut’s First Female Attorney

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Josephine Bennett: Hartford’s City Mother

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Hidden Nearby: John Brown’s Torrington Birthplace

Elizabeth W. Coe Demands the Right of Jury Service

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A First Amendment Lesson: Weaver High Students Teach Their Elders

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The Northern Student Movement

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Speaking under the Open Sky: Frederick Douglass in Connecticut

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Connecticut Suffragists 1919

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Connecticut Lessons from a Tragedy

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Waterbury’s Radium Girls

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The Public Library Movement: Caroline Hewins Makes Room for Young Readers

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A Day for Women – Today in History: March 8

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Andover Lake: A Lesson in Social Change

Constitution Plaza Then and Now

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1850s Equal Rights Activist James Mars

Hartford Times – Voices of Change

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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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“Negroes Who Stand Up and Fight Back” – Paul Robeson in Hartford

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Women Win the Right to Vote

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An Orderly & Decent Government: Business and Government, 1905-1929

An Orderly & Decent Government: Making Self-Government Work, 1819-1865

An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1929-1964

An Orderly & Decent Government: Significant Events & Developments, 1965-Now

An Orderly & Decent Government: A Co-Equal Branch of Government, 1965-Now

An Orderly & Decent Government: Searching for the Common Good, 1965-Now

An Orderly & Decent Government: The Rise of the Factory, 1866-1887

Civil Rights Demonstrations – Today in History: March 18

Video – Helen Keller Tribute Film

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Video – Mary Townsend Seymour Tribute Film

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Sheff v. O’Neill Settlements Target Educational Segregation In Hartford

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Designed to Heal: The Connecticut General Hospital for the Insane

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100 Years of Workers’ Compensation

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Selma, Not So Far Away

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Early Anti-slavery Advocates in 18th-century Connecticut

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Connecticut Takes the Wheel on Education Reform: Project Concern

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Looking Back: How the Vote Was Won

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