Labor History in Connecticut
The Menhaden of Pine Island
By Lauren Borsa-Curran (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer, 2023 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Just a quarter of a…
Shoebox Archives: Albert Walker—A Touch of Magic
By Barbara Austen (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Winter 2007/2008 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! Albert Walker (1836…
Destination: Luddy/Taylor Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum
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Actress Gwen Reed — From Fields to Footlights
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Making Connecticut: Objects and Documents That Tell Our Story
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Cheney Brothers: Innovations in Silk
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Adam Jackson’s Story Revealed
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Workers: Play Ball!
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100 Years of Workers’ Compensation
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Our First Official Labor Day
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Child Labor Strike in New Britain: “They Will Undoubtedly Win It”
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A Strike Transforms a Village
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The Great Depression: Aid & Comfort, Connecticut Style
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Hartford’s Union Brew
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Laboring in the Shade
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Women in the Workplace: From Steno Pool to Factory Floor
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The Way Connecticut Worked
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To Work or to School: Educating Children in 19th Century Connecticut
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The Labor Movement in Connecticut
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The Portuguese in Connecticut: “They Came Here as Fishermen…”
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Child Labor
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“Cast down on every side”: The Ill-Fated Campaign to Found an “African College” in New Haven
by Hilary Moss (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SUMMER 2007 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1831, a…
Stamping Out the Reds: The Palmer Raids in Connecticut
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Cheney Mills: Life in a Mill Town
by Mary Dunne (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. SPRING 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! An employee of the…
Al Marder: A Life of Conviction
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored Inc. Spring 2016 Alfred Marder (b. 1922), life-long…
Audacious Alliance: Mary Townsend Seymour
by Mark H. Jones (c) Connecticut Explored. Summer 2003 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In early 20th…
Site Lines: Housing Factory Workers in World War I
By Mary M. Donohue (c) Connecticut Explored, Winter 2014-2015 Subscribe/Buy the Issue! In 1917 the…
James Mars
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New London’s Indian Mariners
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Ivoryton
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Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War
By Susan D. Pennybacker and Paul Kershaw (c) Connecticut Explored, Summer 2004 Subscribe/Buy the Issue!…
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The Mere Presence of a Gatling
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Work: Are We Making Progress?
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Immigrants All…
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All in a Day’s Work
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