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The True Story of Captain Sluman and Sarah Gray
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Caroline Hewins: Hartford’s First Lady of the Library
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Saturday at the Movies in Depression-era Hartford
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CT History Explorers
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What Type of Place Do You Live In?
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A Sound They’ll Never Forget
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A Jewish Child’s Experience of War
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What’s Your Story?
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The Mother School of Deaf Education
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Memories of the Hartford Circus Fire
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A Family Affair: The Manchester Road Race
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Kids in World War II: The Children’s Salvage Army
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Long Lane School: Remaking Wayward Girls
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Off the Streets & Into the Parks
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Building Dams for Water & Electricity
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An Early American Midwife’s Tale: Jennet Catlin Boardman
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Child Labor Strike in New Britain: “They Will Undoubtedly Win It”
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Pulling Together at Home in World War II
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The Boys & Girls Clubs of America Started Here
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Disrupters in Small Packages
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No Day at the Beach
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“Then Comes Baby in a Baby Carriage”
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Almada Lodge and Channel 3 Kids Camp
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“What Would Dr. King Want You To Do?”
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200 Years of Deaf Education
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Jim and Jane Henson Create the Muppets and More
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3rd Grade Inquiry: To Work or to School?
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Catharine Beecher Educates the West
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Christmas in Connecticut
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Litchfield’s Fortunes Hitched to the Stagecoach
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Mark Twain: Homeschooling the Clemens Way
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To Work or to School: Educating Children in 19th Century Connecticut
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Child Labor
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Making a Home for Orphans
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Destination: Tracking Down Our Classic Roller Coasters
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Educated in One Room
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In a Neighborhood, A Boy’s World
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Tom Thumb and the Age of Celebrity
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Seaside: Sun & Sea Harnessed to Fight Tuberculosis
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A Pint-Sized View of War
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The Diversity of Connecticut
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The Three Rs and “Aha” Moments
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