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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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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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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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Typing History

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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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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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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What’s in a Number? Connecticut’s Thirteenth Regiment Goes Off to War

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Frances Laughlin Wadsworth: Sculpting the Past

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The Last Wolf in Connecticut

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Samson Occom and the Brotherton Indians

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A Sign of the Times Blends Masonic and Patriotic Imagery

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Nathaniel Lyon: Colorful Commander from Connecticut

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