African Americans in the CT National Guard, 1870 to 1919
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...
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Connecticut African Americans Found the Sumner League, August 1894
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief in World War I-Era Connecticut
Introduction The American Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief (ACASR) was formed in 1915 at the behest of American Ambassador Henry Morgenthau in response to the deportations, massacres, and atrocities committed against Armenians,...
Polish Immigrant Lives in Connecticut, 1909-1922
Introduction On May 16, 1910, on the occasion of the unveiling of statues of Pulaski and Kosciuszko in Washington, D.C. by President Taft, the Norwich Bulletin reprinted an article from the Hartford Times entitled...