Introduction Beginning in 1918 and continuing into 1919, the global influenza epidemic raged. It was known at the time as the “Spanish Flu,” due to the widespread but erroneous belief that the disease had...
By Allison Horrocks In 1915, Booker T. Washington, the so-called “Wizard of Tuskegee” gave his last public talk while on tour in Connecticut. This was not Washington’s first time in Connecticut. Over the course...
By Mary Margaret Mahoney The United States mobilized quickly after President Woodrow Wilson declared war on Germany on April 2, 1917. Troops travelled to the front with the help of massive mobilization efforts to...
“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...
“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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Introduction “For African Americans,” urban historian Steven J. Diner wrote, “the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century seemed in many respects the worst of times” (p....