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Hartford’s Great Migration through Charles S. Johnson’s Eyes
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Andover Looks Good on Paper
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Roger Griswold: A Governor Not Afraid To Challenge Authority
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Benjamin Wright: The Father of American Civil Engineering
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The Wallingford Oneida Community
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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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Hartford’s Fuller Brush Company Goes Door-to-Door Across US
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Video – Emily Dunning Barringer Tribute Film
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire: Connecticut Lessons from a Tragedy
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Waterbury’s Radium Girls
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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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Munitions Assembly Line 1943
North and South: The Legacy of Eli Whitney
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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
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Samuel Colt…and Sewing Machines?
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Hidden Nearby: Two Monuments to Sportsmen at Housatonic Meadows State Park
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Video – Martha Parsons Tribute Film
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The Hartford Courant: The Oldest US Newspaper in Continuous Publication
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100 Years of Workers’ Compensation
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Free Speech for Some – Who Knew?
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One Powerful Family in Bozrah
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Stanley Works for New Britain
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When Milk Powered Watertown’s Industry
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When the World Ran on Connecticut Time
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Workers at the Colt Armory, Hartford 1867
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