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Charles W. Morgan: New England’s Last Surviving Wooden Whaling Ship

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    Matt Belden

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    Stonington

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Martha Minerva Franklin: Breaking Barriers for Black Nurses

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    Emily Clark

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

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Hebron’s Josephine Sophia (White) Griffing and a Vision for Post-Emancipation America

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Illuminating Connecticut’s Past: The Bradley & Hubbard Legacy

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Army-Navy “E” Award Honors Connecticut for Support Against the Axis Powers

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“Girl Pilot”: Mary Goodrich Jenson Breaks Barriers in Aviation and Journalism

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Sophia Woodhouse Welles: Wethersfield’s World-Famous Bonnet Maker

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Polish Tobacco Farmers in the Connecticut River Valley

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A New Source of Farm Labor Crops Up in Wartime

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

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Connecticut’s French Connections

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Actress Gwen Reed Best Remembered for Dedication to Childhood Literacy

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The Sea in their Blood: The Portuguese in New London County

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The Debate Over Who Could Occupy World War II Public Housing in West Hartford

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Boot Blacks and the Struggle to Survive in Hartford

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Ebenezer Tracy Made Some of the Finest 18th-Century Furniture

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William Pinney Does It All for Ellington

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East Haven was Home to Connecticut’s First Iron Works

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Africans in Search of the American Dream: Cape Verdean Whalers and Sealers

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Willimantic’s American Thread Plant–A Multinational Corporate Takeover

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Firefighters Answer the Call in Greenwich

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The Stamford Foundry Company Made Notable Stoves

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The “Welcoming Beacon” of Sheffield Island Lighthouse

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Hartford’s Industrial Day – Today in History: October 7

A Different “Type” of Connecticut Industry

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Monument to Hero of the Greenwich Police Department – Who Knew?

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Connecticut Yankee Brings Power to the People

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Boone Guyton Tested the Limits of World-Famous Aircraft

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Connecticut Pin Makers

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Elastic Web Expands Textile Manufacturing in West Haven

Literacy Tests and the Right To Vote

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Helen James Chisholm: A Hartford Teacher in Hawaii

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Briggs Manufacturing Drives Voluntown’s 19th-Century Cotton Economy

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A Metal Giant in Wilton

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Moses Wheeler: Legendary Housatonic Ferryman

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Guilford’s One-Man Fire Department

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Cash Crop: L.B. Haas & Co. and the History of Tobacco in Connecticut

Weaving the Cultural Fabric of Beacon Falls

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Frank Duryea Drives the First Automobile in Connecticut

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John Howard Hale: Glastonbury’s Peach King

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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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Edith Watson: Camera Artist

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The Pike Family Lived a Life of Dyeing

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Vivien Kellems Takes On the IRS

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Humble Beginnings of the Dow Jones: How a Sterling Farmer Became the Toast of Wall Street

George Griffin: “Devoted Friend” to Samuel Clemens

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Aetna Helps Make Hartford “The Insurance Capital of the World”

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Hartford’s Sex Trade: Prostitutes and Politics

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Helen F. Boyd Leads the Charge for Better Public Health

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Early 20th-Century Immigration in Connecticut

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Miss James, First Woman Pharmacist in CT Right in Old Saybrook

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A Feeling of Solidarity: Labor Unions and Suffragists Team Up

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Connecticut Pocketknife Firms

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Providing Bundles for Britain and News for America

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Nellie McKnight Promotes History and Literacy throughout Ellington

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

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    Emma Wiley

  • Town(s):
    Hartford

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Samuel Colt: From Yankee Peddler to American Tycoon

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The Cheney Brothers’ Rise in the Silk Industry

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G. Fox and the Golden Age of Department Stores

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Family Ties Bring Together North Branford Industry

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First Connecticut Carpet Mills Emerge in Simsbury and Enfield

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Franklin’s Ashbel Woodward was a Battlefield Surgeon and Historian

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William Hawkins Abbott Finds the Energy to Power the Northeast

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The Early Years of the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company

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The American Brass Company: Leading the Way in the “Brass Valley”

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Daniel Curtiss: The Life of a 19th-Century Self-Made Man

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Connecticut’s Oldest Fire Department

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New London’s Indian Mariners

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Enforcing Law and Order in Greenwich

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Samuel Foot: A Trader Turned Governor

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How the Wobblies Won Free Speech

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A Revolutionary Book Designer: Bruce Rogers of New Fairfield

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Late 19th-Century Immigration in Connecticut

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Rising Tide: Steamboat Workers on the Connecticut River

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Evelyn Beatrice Longman Commemorates the Working Class

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Sixty Degrees Below Zero: Connecticut Man Explores Antarctica

Wheeler & Wilson: A Stitchy Situation in Watertown

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Serving Up Justice: Hartford’s Black Workers Organize

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The Danbury Hatters

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Hope on the Wall: Connecticut’s New Deal Post Office Murals

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Waterbury Farming in the Late 1800s

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Farming as Recycling: The Becces in the North End

Brass City/Grass Roots: From Farmers to Developers: The Rasmussens of Town Plot

Brass City/Grass Roots: The Pierponts of East Farms

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Brass City/Grass Roots: Struggles and Decline

Brass City/Grass Roots: Food Marketing and Processing as Part of Civic Culture

Brass City/Grass Roots: What Makes a Farm a Farm? Other Sites of Food Production in Waterbury

Brass City/Grass Roots: Remnants and Revivals

Brass City/Grass Roots: Bucks Hill: Waterbury’s Rural Holdout

Greenwich Emergency Responders: On the Move Overtime

North Haven: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s

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Built on Innovation, Saved by Nostalgia: Hitchcock Chair Company

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Amos Bronson Alcott Changes the Way Connecticut Children Learn

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The Collapse of the L’Ambiance Plaza

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    Patrick J. Mahoney

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    Bridgeport

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Child Labor in Connecticut

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Blacksmith Isaac Glasko Challenges the State Constitution

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New Canaan’s Pioneering Female Physician

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Vera Buch Weisbord’s “Radical” Life

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    Kevin Hogg

  • Town(s):
    Bristol

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A Pioneering Woman in Business: Martha Parsons of Enfield

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Hartford’s Great Migration through Charles S. Johnson’s Eyes

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Laboring in the Shade

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One-Legged Stools – Who Knew?

A Connecticut Slave in George Washington’s Army

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Andover Looks Good on Paper

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The Rise and Fall of Manufacturing in Bridgeport: The Case of Bryant Electric

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The Kewpies Buy A House in Westport

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

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Bevin Brothers Helps Transform East Hampton into Belltown, USA

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Amelia Simmons Adds a Uniquely American Flavor to Cooking

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Seth Thomas Works Around the Clock in Wolcott

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Roger Griswold: A Governor Not Afraid To Challenge Authority

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Broadway Comes to Westport

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Benjamin Wright: The Father of American Civil Engineering

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New Haven: What Was Everyday Life Like During the Civil War?

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Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Company Puts Best Foot Forward

Portland Improves the Steam Engine

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The Wallingford Oneida Community

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Nicholas Grillo and his Thornless Rose

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The Sand Hogs Set the Foundation for the Bulkeley Bridge

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Branford’s History Is Set in Stone

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The Many Layers to Onion Farming in Westport

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East Haven’s Revolutionary Salt Works

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Cornelius Bushnell and His Ironclad Ship

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

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Mary Hall: Connecticut’s First Female Attorney

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The Newsies Strike Back

The Innumerable Accolades Afforded Dr. William H. Welch

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Hartford’s Fuller Brush Company Goes Door-to-Door Across US

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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Connecticut Lessons from a Tragedy

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Early 19th-Century Immigration in Connecticut

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A Woman Ahead of Her Time: Mabel Osgood Wright

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North and South: The Legacy of Eli Whitney

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The Industrial Revolution Comes to Jewett City

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

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Clarence Dickinson Carries Printing Innovation into the 20th Century

Windsor Tobacco: Made in the Shade

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Union Brew

Hidden Nearby: Two Monuments to Sportsmen at Housatonic Meadows State Park

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The Hartford Courant: The Oldest US Newspaper in Continuous Publication

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The Darlings Make Preservation a Family Affair

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100 Years of Workers’ Compensation

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Free Speech for Some – Who Knew?

Child Labor vs. Schooling in 19th-century Naugatuck

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Waterbury’s Radium Girls

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A Shipping and Railroad Magnate Remembers His Connecticut Roots

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Plainfield Academy: Preparing Connecticut Scholars in the 18th and 19th Centuries

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One Powerful Family in Bozrah

William Edgar Simonds: A Schoolteacher Turned Civil War Hero

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Stanley Works for New Britain

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Connecticut Daredevil Andrew Mamedoff Joins Royal Air Force

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When Milk Powered Watertown’s Industry

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Elias Perkins: One of Lisbon’s Most Accomplished Public Servants

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When Bozrah Provided Comfort to the Nation

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When the World Ran on Connecticut Time

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Zebulon Brockway: A Controversial Figure in Prison Reform

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Three Young Engineers: Charting New Haven

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Armstrong Finds a Niche in the Tire Market

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Philip Corbin: Manufacturing A Legacy for New Britain

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    Amy Gagnon

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Time in Connecticut

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    Simsbury

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Labor Day at the Turn of the 20th Century

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