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War and defense - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
Jonathan Trumbull’s Lebanon War Office: The “Pentagon of the Revolution”
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Emily Clark
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Lebanon
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Battle of Goshen Point
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Ridgefield’s Keeler Tavern
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Connecticut’s Valley Forge: The Redding Encampment and Putnam Memorial State Park
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Abigail Hinman: Heroine of the American Revolution or Legend?
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Electric Boat: From Innovation Trials to WWII Submarine Leadership
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Army-Navy “E” Award Honors Connecticut for Support Against the Axis Powers
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Photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White: “No Picture Was Unimportant to Her”
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Connecticut and the Armenian Genocide
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The 29th First to Enter Confederate Capital When It Surrenders – Today in History: April 3
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A New Source of Farm Labor Crops Up in Wartime
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Food Needed to Win the War Comes from Washington
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Connecticut’s Black Civil War Regiment
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Bradley Airport’s Military Origins
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The Debate Over Who Could Occupy World War II Public Housing in West Hartford
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The Hartford Convention – Today in History: December 15
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Little Sorrel, Connecticut’s Confederate War Horse
They Also Served: Chinese, Southeast Asians, and Hawaiians in the American Civil War
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Jack Brutus, Connecticut War Dog – Who Knew?
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Colonel Ruth A. Lucas: Literary Advocate
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General Joseph R. Hawley Helps Commemorate Connecticut’s Civil War Soldiers
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The Ebenezer Avery House – Who Knew?
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Benedict Arnold Turns and Burns New London
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Fame and Infamy for the Hulls of Derby
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Maritime History: The Founding of the United States Coast Guard Academy
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The War Connecticut Hated
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Oldest Cavalry Unit – Who Knew?
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Collections: Battle Flags
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D-Day – Today in History: June 6
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The Incident of the Stonington Schooner ‘Breakwater’: A View from Indian Country
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Jason Mancini
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Stonington
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A Voice for Veterans: A Civil War era ‘Whistle-Blower’ – Who Knew?
Benedict Arnold: America’s Most Famous Traitor
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Samuel Colt: From Yankee Peddler to American Tycoon
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Powder Hollow in Hazardville – Who Knew?
Norwich’s “Volcanic” Past
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Ethan Allen Born – Today in History: January 10
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The Complicated Realities of Connecticut and the Civil War
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Matthew Warshauer
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[Archived] The Complicated Realities of Connecticut and the Civil War
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Matthew Warshauer
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The Early Years of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company
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Reporting News of Pearl Harbor – Today in History: December 7
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A True Dog of War: Sergeant Stubby
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Alfred Howe Terry Born in Hartford – Today in History: November 10
A Memorial to General Hawley at the State Capitol
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Map – Rochambeau’s Camp at Canterbury
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The Whitney Armory Helps Progress in Hamden
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A Monument Memorializes the Fallen
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Nathan Hale Hanged in New York – Today in History: September 22
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The Turtle Submarine – Today in History: September 6
Connecticut Servicemen in the “Bloody Bucket” Division
Defending Connecticut: Fortifying New London Against the British in 1812
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Washington’s Sister Susie Society
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Hall of Flags: Memorial to Connecticut’s Civil War Colors
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Tara M. Cantore
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Hartford
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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?
British Burn Fairfield – Today in History: July 7
Stamford’s Three-Gun Armada
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The Platt Amendment – Today in History: June 12
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USS George Washington Launched – Today in History: June 9
Memorial Day 1920 Brings a Changing of the Guard
Gun Wheel of the First Light Battery, Connecticut Volunteers
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The Burning of Danbury
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Ironclad Commissioned – Today in History: April 21
Colt’s Submarine Battery – Today in History: April 13
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From Bombs to Bras: World War I Conservation Measures Transform the Lives of Women
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The 29th Leaves for War – Today in History: March 19
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Fighting Sons of Erin: Connecticut’s Irish Regiment in the Civil War
Gideon Welles, US Secretary of the Navy and Lincoln’s “Neptune”
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Mystic-built USS Galena Part of Plan to Strengthen Union Navy
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A Connecticut Slave in George Washington’s Army
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Site Lines: The Mysterious Blue Lights
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The Launch of the USS Nautilus – Today in History: January 21
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Leroy Anderson Composed Iconic Music in Woodbury
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USS Confederacy: The Life and Service of Connecticut’s Continental Frigate
Women and Defense: World War II on the Connecticut Home Front
Slavery and the Pequot War
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Lion Gardiner Helps to Fortify Early Old Saybrook
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Connecticut Lawyer Prosecutes Nazi War Criminals at Nuremberg
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Connecticut’s “Yankee Watch” Squadron Protects the Skies Here and Abroad
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The Ulysses S. Grant Memorial Tablet
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Thomas Knowlton: A Small Town’s National Hero
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The Colvocoresses Oak
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A Patriotic Legacy in Print
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Fort Griswold Attacked – Today in History: September 6
America’s Most Devastating Conflict: King Philip’s War
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The Stonington Battle Flag
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USS Nautilus Passes Under North Pole – Today in History: August 3
Launching of the USS Nautilus 1954
Sanitary Fair – Today in History: July 25
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The First Battle of Bull Run: Connecticut Troops Stand Firm When the Battle Turns Against Them
Cornelius Bushnell and His Ironclad Ship
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Hammonasset State Park Serves the State and its Residents
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Connecticut’s War Governor, William A. Buckingham
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Oliver Cromwell Launched – Today in History: June 13
Stealth Attack from Guilford Launched – Today in History: May 23
The First Yale Unit: How U.S. Navy Aviation Began
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Connecticut Declares War Against the Pequot – Today in History: May 1
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Battle at Ridgefield – Today in History: April 27
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USS Tullibee – Today in History: April 27
The British Attack Danbury – Today in History: April 26
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War and the Fear of Enemy Aliens – Who Knew?
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World War I Flying Ace Raoul Lufbery
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Freighter Worcester Launched – Today in History: April 5
Munitions Assembly Line 1943
Connecticut Arms the Union
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A Woman Who Developed Tolerance: Leila T. Alexander
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Honor and Duty: The Life of Alfred Howe Terry
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Video – Undersea University – US Navy’s Submarine School
Samuel Colt…and Sewing Machines?
Benedict Arnold Demands the Key – Today in History: April 22
The British Raid on Essex
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The Bazooka Changes War – Today in History: June 14
Civil War Soldier Dies of Gangrene – Today in History: July 10
The Civil War Commences: Connecticut’s Involvement in the Civil War
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29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers Fought More than One War
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An Overview of Connecticut’s Outdoor Sculpture
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A Special Place to Honor Military Veterans in Plainville
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Nathan Starr’s Cutlass Fought the War of 1812
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Video – Home Front: Connecticut During World War II – Migration and Housing
New London’s Sound Defense
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Connecticut 29th Mustered into Service – Today in History: March 8
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Connecticut in the French and Indian War
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David Drury
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Commemorating the USS Hartford at the Connecticut State Capitol
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What’s in a Number? Connecticut’s Thirteenth Regiment Goes Off to War
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Gideon Welles’s Role in Lincoln’s Cabinet
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Workers at the Colt Armory, Hartford 1867
Fort Griswold and the Battle of Groton Heights 1781
Private Henry Cornwall 1862
The 29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Infantry Flag and Display
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Blood on the Hill: The Battle of Groton Heights, September 6, 1781
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Video – Home Front: Connecticut During World War II – Civil Defense
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Nathaniel Lyon: Colorful Commander from Connecticut
Writer
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John Potter
Town(s)
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Ashford
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Video – Home Front: A State Divided as War Looms in Europe
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CPTV
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Southbury
Map – Rochambeau’s Camp at Danbury
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CTH Staff
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Danbury
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Map – Rochambeau’s Camp at East Hartford
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CTH Staff
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East Hartford
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Map – Rochambeau’s Camp at Voluntown
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CTH Staff
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Voluntown
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Map – Rochambeau’s Camp at Farmington
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CTH Staff
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Farmington
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Map – Rochambeau’s Camp at Windham
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CTH Staff
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Windham
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Site Lines: Silas Deane
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Causes of the Pequot War
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Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center
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Griswold, Groton, Ledyard, North Stonington, Preston, Stonington
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Video – Connecticut’s Cultural Treasures: Lebanon Green
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Fitch Soldiers’ Home Closes – Today in History: August 28
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