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A Revolution in Horse Power: The Hartford & Wethersfield Horse Railroad Goes Electric
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America’s First Woman Governor: Ella Grasso, 1919-1981
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The Open and Fortified Country of the Human Heart: A Victorian Lady’s View of Love
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A Beautiful and Goodly Tree: The Rise and Fall of the American Elm
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Sending Season’s Greetings: Christmas Cards in Connecticut
Little Nutmeggers: Four Centuries of Children’s Clothes and Games
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This Won’t Hurt a Bit! A Brief History of Anesthesia
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Transit of Venus: German Scientists Visit Hartford
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Scandal in the Beecher Family
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The Kennedys in Connecticut – Today in History: November 6
The Art of Burying the Dead: Exploring Connecticut’s Historic Cemeteries
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“A Noble and Precious Life”: Edgar M. Woodford, Civil Engineer, Abolitionist, and Soldier
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Yankee Ingenuity: Curtis Veeder, a Mechanical Genius and Shrewd Businessman
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Lobsters and Oysters and Clams: A Short History of Seafood in Connecticut
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Bradley Field Enters the Jet Age
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Murder on the Map: The Mysterious Death of Captain George M. Colvocoresses
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Putting History on the Map
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Up from the Ashes: Fire at the Meriden Britannia Company – Today in History: July 16
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Preserving Connecticut’s Natural Beauty: Connecticut’s First State Parks
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Connecticut’s “The Legend of the Charter Oak”
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Washington Didn’t Only Sleep Here: George Washington at Wethersfield’s Webb House
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The “Fancy Chair” Craze of the 1800s: Lambert Hitchcock and the Story of the Hitchcock Chair
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Frances Laughlin Wadsworth: Sculpting the Past
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Mad about Shad: Connecticut’s Love Affair with an Oily Fish
A Night to Remember: When the Steamboat Took on the Railroad—and Lost
Faith Trumbull: The Artist Was a Young Girl
Marking Time: Early Connecticut Innovations Transform Clock Making
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“Free Bobby, Free Ericka”: The New Haven Black Panther Trials
From Kiln to Collection: Norwich Pottery and Its Makers
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Skating Through Winter
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Eighty-Five Hundred Souls: the 1918-1919 Flu Epidemic in Connecticut
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An Inconvenient Season: Charlotte Cowles’s Letters from December 1839
Setting the Table in Historic Style: Connecticut Views on Staffordshire China
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Yung Wing’s Dream: The Chinese Educational Mission, 1872-1881
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Reckoning with the Dutch: the Treaty of Hartford, 1650
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Prudence Punderson, Ordinary Woman, Extraordinary Artist: Needlework in Connecticut
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Sixty Degrees Below Zero: Connecticut Man Explores Antarctica
Defending Connecticut: Fortifying New London Against the British in 1812
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Connecticut Valley Style: Eliphalet Chapin Inspires a Tradition of Craft
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The Adventure of a Lifetime: John Ledyard and Captain Cook’s Last Voyage
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Elizabeth Park’s Rose Garden: June is Busting Out All Over
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Helen Keller in Connecticut: The Last Years of a Legendary Crusader
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Paradise on the Sound: The Summer Colony at Fenwick
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Learning about the Lusitania: How Hartford Heard the News
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Battling Bat Battalino: One of Hartford’s Heroes
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Much Good Might be Accomplished: Catharine Esther Beecher and the Pursuit of Domestic Economy
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Fighting Sons of Erin: Connecticut’s Irish Regiment in the Civil War
The Wearing of the Green: 19th-century Prints of Irish Subjects by Hartford’s Kellogg Brothers
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Remembering Fredi Washington: Actress, Activist, and Journalist
Augustus Washington (1820 – 1875): African American Daguerreotypist
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“An Admirable Portrait” of Frederick Douglass
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Connecticut Yankee and Millstone: 48 Years of Nuclear Power
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The Great Remedy: Picturing the Emancipation Proclamation
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Women and Defense: World War II on the Connecticut Home Front
Any Month with an “R” in It: Eating Oysters in Connecticut
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Calder in Connecticut: World-Famous Artist Called Roxbury Home
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The Flood That We Forget: October 15 and 16, 1955
Hartford’s “Little Italy”
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A Patriotic Legacy in Print
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And They’re Off!: Harness Racing at Charter Oak Park
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The Great River: Connecticut’s Main Stream
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Horror on the Housatonic: The Railroad Disaster of August 1865
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America’s Most Devastating Conflict: King Philip’s War
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Liberian Independence Day
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The First Battle of Bull Run: Connecticut Troops Stand Firm When the Battle Turns Against Them
A Revolution On Two Wheels: Columbia Bicycles
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New Connecticut on Lake Erie: Connecticut’s Western Reserve
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The Free Consent of the People: Thomas Hooker and the Fundamental Orders
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Hometown Hero: Wallingford Remembers Stanley Budleski
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Take Me to the Fair: Connecticut Exhibits at the International Expositions
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News From Lexington: Contemporary Views of the Opening Battles of the American Revolution
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Let There Be Light: An Early History of the Hartford Electric Light Company
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A Woman Ahead of Her Time: Mabel Osgood Wright
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Fire and Ice: A Very Bad Week in 1914
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The Astronomical Event of the Century
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Almost a Tragedy: The Collapse of the Hartford Civic Center
Iron and Water: The Norwich & Worcester Railroad Story
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Disaster at Cold Harbor: Connecticut’s Second Volunteer Heavy Artillery Regiment
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Hurricane of 1938: Connecticut’s Worst Disaster
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Women Win the Right to Vote
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Gothic Connecticut
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The Civil War Commences: Connecticut’s Involvement in the Civil War
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Diamonds of the Past: Hartford’s Lost Ball Parks
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American Chairs, Made in Connecticut
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What’s in a Number? Connecticut’s Thirteenth Regiment Goes Off to War
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The Last Wolf in Connecticut
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Samson Occom and the Brotherton Indians
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Blood on the Hill: The Battle of Groton Heights, September 6, 1781
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Picture This: Seeing Connecticut in 3-D
A Pioneering Connecticut Firearm
A Sign of the Times Blends Masonic and Patriotic Imagery
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Nathaniel Lyon: Colorful Commander from Connecticut
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