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June 10, 2025
NEW BRITAIN, Conn., June 9, 2025 — Connecticut Explored magazine’s award-winning podcast Grating the Nutmeg, the podcast of Connecticut history, has been awarded a $2,450 Connecticut Humanities Quick Grant to support production and promotion of […]
March 25, 2025
by Allan Appel | Mar 20, 2025 1:15 pm https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/revolutionary_war_homespun_heroes_hailed_the_women They did a lot more than keep the home hearths burning. During the Revolutionary War, patriotic American women produced vast numbers of domestic textiles or “homespun” coats, vests, and […]
March 15, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
March 1, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
February 16, 2025
Working for the Revolution: Patriot Women’s Lives During the War Date: March 8, 2025 Time: 2:00 pm–3:15 pm In our third installment of our Reflections on the Revolution Lecture Series, join the Greenwich Historical Society this March […]
February 15, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
February 15, 2025
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February 1, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
January 15, 2025
Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strikes, popular organizations and people in Connecticut who changed the state and the country for the better.
September 15, 2024
Connecticut History Day is an affiliate program of National History Day (NHD). CHD annually engages over 4,000 middle- and high-school students in historical research, interpretation, and creative expression through project-based learning. The program seeks to […]
May 7, 2014
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