The “Hello Girls”
It was the District Telephone Company of New Haven (later Southern New England Telephone) that established the first commercial telephone exchange in the nation in 1878. Thirty years later, the Morning Journal-Courier of...
Monthly Archive: June 2016
The American Labor Party Movement in Connecticut, 1918-1921
Introduction According to the political sociologist Robin Archer, “Labor-based political parties have been an important electoral force in every advanced capitalist country. Every one, that is, but the United States” (p. 1). Historians have...