On June 15, 1919, Connecticut union officials and city delegations joined a mass protest at the U.S. Capitol to oppose the Eighteenth Amendment, which was ratified the previous January, and to reshape the Volstead...
An estimated 300,000 men of Italian descent served in the U.S. armed forces during the First World War. It is said that much as 10% of the American casualties in the conflict involved this...
Monster Solar Motor, 1901 On April 16, 1901, subscribers to the Waterbury Democrat read about a “monster solar motor” installed on an ostrich farm in Pasadena, California. The beast was reported capable of lifting...
There was likely no topic more hotly debated in the 1920s than the conduct of youth, and especially that of young women. According to the social and cultural historian Paula S. Fass, the traditionalist...
“ ‘Jim Crow’ was handed a dishonorable discharge from the Connecticut National Guard on March 16, 1949, when Governor Chester Bowles signed a bill outlawing segregation and discrimination on account of race, creed, or...
Arctic cold did not stop them. The 1920s were known as a decade of youth fads, including pole sitting and goldfish swallowing. Connecticut youth were not left behind. The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project is...
Check out what Connecticut residents of 1916 read about Thanksgiving Proclamations. Take a look at government and museum sites that bring this information up to date! For...
Low on cash? Short on time? Don’t despair. You can pull off a Halloween party without either. Take a look at the suggestions offered to readers of the Bridgeport Evening Farmer in 1913. ...
Women Sought the Vote in “Porto Rico,” 1919 In the early twentieth century, Connecticut newspapers regularly reported on politics in Puerto Rico. This included the news around the fight for the woman’s...
LCCN: sn92051282, The Connecticut Labor Press (New Haven, Conn.), 191?-1921 LCCN: sn92051283, The Connecticut Labor News (New Haven, Conn.), 1921-1925 The masthead of the Connecticut Labor Press of 1920 declared the 3-cent weekly...