FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Christine Gauvreau (860) 757-6525 Christinne.Gauvreau@ct.gov Contact: Robert Kinney (860) 757-6668 Robert.kinney@ct.gov Date: February 27, 2017 NEWS (HARTFORD)- Librarians digitizing the New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier...
The Newtown Bee, The Bee and The Newtown Chronicle Newtown, Connecticut town historian Daniel Cruson placed the birth of the Newtown Bee in 1870 within New England’s post-Civil War florescence of small rural weeklies. It was one...
By Jane Cullinane In February 1913, in “That Cherry Tree,” the wit Edgar Allen Forbes took great delight in poking fun at the George Washington biographer who had crafted this morality tale more...
(Hartford, CT) The Connecticut State Library is pleased to announce that it has digitized the New Haven Daily morning journal and courier from 1895-1907 and its successor The morning journal-courier 1907-1908. These and other...
As we all prepare to experience the inaugural media extravaganza, it is worth remembering that for much of our history, most people followed the festivities only in the print media. The inauguration of William...
In 1906 when the John E. Bassett & Co. ran this ad in the New Haven Morning Journal and Courier, the venerable dry goods and hardware store was already 122 years old, having been...
The encampment and protests happening at Standing Rock are current news, but these events are also part of a larger story that goes back hundreds of years. In 1889, people in Connecticut may have...
From March 16th to 18th in 1908, New Haven audiences were able to marvel at “La Moto Girl,” who appeared at the New Haven Theatre in an act anchored by Valadon, The...
An item titled “Race Feeling at Manassas” in the New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier of September 6, 1904 should alert historians to the fact that the story of the Black...
On August 22, 1894, around 200 Connecticut African American leaders met at the famous Savin Rock establishment of the caterer J. W. Stewart and formed a new organization for the “betterment of the conditions...