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Martha Minerva Franklin: Breaking Barriers for Black Nurses

  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Meriden, New Haven, New Milford

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The Explosion of the Redding Baptist Meeting House

  • Writer:
    Alec Lurie

  • Town(s):
    Redding

Larry Kramer: Gay Rights and HIV/AIDS Activism

  • Writer:
    Sharon L. Cohen

  • Town(s):
    Bridgeport, New Haven

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Sarah Harris Fayerweather

  • Writer:
    Emily Clark

  • Town(s):
    Canterbury, New London

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

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Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children

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Alice Hamilton: The Nation’s Leading Expert on Industrial Diseases

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Apostle of Peace: Elihu Burritt’s Quest for Universal Brotherhood

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Vietnam Protests in Connecticut

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The Merger That Was Not Meant To Be: Yale University and Vassar College

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

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19th Amendment: The Fight Over Woman Suffrage in Connecticut

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Hartford’s Challenge to “The Birth of a Nation”

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Emmeline Pankhurst’s “Freedom or Death” Speech Energizes Connecticut Women in 1913

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Rosamond Danielson: Windham County Suffragist and Community Leader

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Constance Baker Motley: A Warrior for Justice

  • Writer:
    Andy Piascik

  • Town(s):
    Chester, New Haven

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Maria Colón Sánchez, State Representative and Community Advocate

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The Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut

  • Writer:
    Andy Piascik

  • Town(s):
    Meriden, Windham

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Griswold v. Connecticut – Today in History: June 7

Kalos Society: Connecticut’s First Modern LGBTQ+ Activist Organization

  • Writer:
    Eve Galanis

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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The Black Panther Party in Connecticut: Community Survival Programs

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Canon Clinton Jones: A Revolutionary Figure in Connecticut’s LGBTQ+ History

  • Writer:
    Eve Galanis

  • Town(s):
    Brookfield, Hartford, Manchester

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Vivien Kellems Takes On the IRS

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Marian Anderson’s Role in the Civil Rights Movement

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Women of the Prison Brigade

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Hartford’s Sex Trade: Prostitutes and Politics

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Early 20th-Century Immigration in Connecticut

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

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A Feeling of Solidarity: Labor Unions and Suffragists Team Up

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Katharine Houghton Hepburn, A Woman Before Her Time

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

  • Writer:
    Emma Wiley

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Emma Hart Willard: Leader in Women’s Education

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Richard Reihl: The Hate Crime That Became a Turning Point for LGBTQ+ Civil Rights

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Edward Alexander Bouchet: The First African American to Earn a PhD from an American University

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“Free Bobby, Free Ericka”: The New Haven Black Panther Trials

LGBTQ+ Mental Health Treatment in the 20th Century

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The Smith Sisters and Their Cows Strike a Blow for Equal Rights – Today in History: January 8

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Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took On Standard Oil

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Elihu Burritt Born – Today in History: December 8

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The Slow Demise of Prohibition in Wilton

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Taking on the State: Griswold v. Connecticut

  • Writer:
    Nancy Finlay

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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The “Red Scare” in Connecticut

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How the Wobblies Won Free Speech

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Site Lines: Connecticut’s Freedom Trail

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Art Young, Radical Cartoonist

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The Rise of the Black Panther Party in Connecticut

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Serving Up Justice: Hartford’s Black Workers Organize

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The Rev. Amos Beman’s Devotion to Education, Social Activism, and New Haven

  • Writer:
    Elizabeth Correia

  • Town(s):
    New Haven

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“’No Taxation without Representation’: Black Voting in Connecticut

Senator Brandegee Stonewalls Women’s Suffrage

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

  • Writer:
    Kevin Hogg

  • Town(s):
    Bristol

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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

  • Writer:
    Molly May

  • Town(s):
    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 Sand Hogs Set the Foundation for the Bulkeley Bridge

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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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Elizabeth W. Coe Demands the Right of Jury Service

  • Writer:
    Patricia Smedley Buxton

  • Town(s):
    Waterbury

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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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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Connecticut Lessons from a Tragedy

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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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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

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

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Rock and Roll vs. Racism

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Designed to Heal: The Connecticut General Hospital for the Insane

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A First Amendment Lesson: Weaver High Students Teach Their Elders

  • Writer:
    Steve Thornton

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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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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The Peace Movement in Litchfield

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Waterbury’s Radium Girls

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Danbury Prison Protest – Today in History: August 11

Hidden Nearby: John Brown’s Torrington Birthplace

  • Writer:
    Peter Vermilyea

  • Town(s):
    Torrington

A Public Responsibility: Conservation and Development in the 20th Century

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Dynamic Tensions: Conservation and Development up to the 1920s

  • Writer:
    Leah S. Glaser

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Gradual Emancipation Reflected the Struggle of Some to Envision Black Freedom

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Hartford Protests in Support of Selma – Today in History: March 9

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

Connecticut Takes the Wheel on Education Reform: Project Concern

  • Writer:
    Amanda Gurren

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Looking Back: How the Vote Was Won

  • Writer:
    Tedd Levy

  • Town(s):
    Old Saybrook

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Time in Connecticut

  • Town(s):
    Simsbury

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Labor Day at the Turn of the 20th Century

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

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