Influenza in Connecticut, 1918
Lester H. Thompson, a Connecticut soldier from New Haven, lost his life shortly after arriving in France in 1918. His parents thought “he caught a cold on the transport” and that it later...
Category: History Blogs
Connecticut Recognizes Labor Day
Check out the new online display of historic Labor Day souvenir ribbons and great clips from digitized historic Connecticut state newspapers! It can be found on the website of the Connecticut History Museum at...
A Slavonian Labor Day in Bridgeport, 1914
The range of events on Labor Day in Connecticut in 1914 included those special to the immigrants who made up a large percentage of the workforce. In Bridgeport, hundreds of Slavonians gathered at Sokol...
Introducing the Hartford Chronicle Family of African American Newspapers
The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project is soon to digitize historical state African American weeklies from the World World II era. On March 26, 1949, Editor Ernie Durham and President George W. Goodman of the...
Influenza Pandemic of 1918
2018 is the 100-year commemoration of the Influenza Pandemic of 1918. Matthew L. Cartter, MD, MPH, State Epidemiologist & Director of Infectious Diseases at the Connecticut Department of Public Health, presented a version of...
Introducing the New Haven Workmen’s Advocate
On the occasion of the traditional worker’s holiday, May 1, the Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project would like to introduce a rare state labor title that we are soon to digitize. On September 8,...
St. Patrick’s Day in 19th Century New Haven
By Gail Hurley This past Saturday, I was in New Haven and had a chance to finally visit both an old and newer institution with friends and family. We had the best pizza at...
Black History Month: Remembering New Haven-born Black Nationalist William H. Ferris
By Chris Gauvreau In August of 1922, New Haven-born intellectual and activist William H. Ferris (1874-1941) was elected to travel as a delegate of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) to Europe. There he...
A Spooky New England Tale from the 1894 New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier
“’Struther Kannock’s Halloween” was “No. 43” in a broader collection called Tales of Ten Travelers. The author, Edgar L. Wakeman, was a prolific journalist and story teller whose http://<http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020358/1894-10-27/ed-1/seq-3/>works of travel and fiction were...
Back to School Shopping, Then and Now
By Gail Hurley This is tax free week in Connecticut, just in time to help families with the back to school shopping. It is the time to buy clothing, shoes, and school supplies...