Hungarian Immigrant Lives in Connecticut, 1909-1922
“Bridgeport is the largest Hungarian city in America. . . . here in Bridgeport, one out of every ten men is Hungarian. . . . The Hungarians of this country have nowhere else more...
Monthly Archive: July 2016
Connecticut National Guard at Pine Camp N.Y., 1908
Every summer, National Guard units all across the US have two weeks of field training at a military reservation, located, typically, in their home state. The Connecticut National Guard (CNG) trains at the...
Play, Recreation, and Childhood in Progressive Era Connecticut
“I am one who holds that other places than the streets ought to be provided for little children as playgrounds.” – “The Wayfarer,” Norwich Bulletin, June 25, 1910, page 14. Introduction In the late...
Free Speech & Seditious Speech in World War I Era Connecticut
Introduction The struggle over the definition of the right to free speech was a central feature of the World War I era home front, and events in Connecticut were at the center of a...