The newspapers currently being digitized by CDNP are expected to contribute greatly to research into the ways that the First World War was experienced in Connecticut. A talk on this subject was delivered on...
In December of 1914, the U.S. was several years out from entry into the First World War. At the time, there was a great deal of opposition to American involvement in what was viewed...
In October of 1921, the businesses of the town of Norwich went all out to be associated with the local premier of the 1920 film “The County Fair.” The degree to which the local...
September 8, 1918 was an important day in the effort to mobilize Connecticut residents for the Great War. On that day, Governor Marcus H. Holcomb and the Connecticut Council of Defense organized the...
On June 17, 1918, the Bridgeport Times carried a full-page ad urging the purchase of war savings stamps. The ad was placed by a lace manufacturer, the International Textile Company of Bridgeport. While most...
The arts in the United States were teetering on the brink of revolutionary change in the years just before the First World War. The traditional fine arts, based on an appreciation of the classical...
The month of July in 1910 was a big month in the world of sports nationally and in Connecticut. On July 25, 1910, just a few weeks after he defeated James J. Jeffries...
National immigration policy was highly contested in the years before, during, and just after World War I. Connecticut industry, like U.S. industry in general, saw itself as highly dependent on a massive influx...
The social transformations wrought by World War I in the U.S. were profound. One of the most dramatic involved the entry of tens of thousands of mostly young working women into jobs in the...
In 1919, Charles Lathrop Park wrote words that would likely get the attention of today’s advocates of food sovereignty, urban farming, sustainability, and the elimination of city center food deserts. “Ambitious young men and...