CT Digital Newspaper Project is excited to share that we have digitized additional issues of the Italian language newspaper La Sentinella, covering 1931-1948 – which are now online! This completes the full run of this title and now all...
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...
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...
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...
Audio recordings of articles from the Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project’s digitized World War I-era newspapers have been read aloud by volunteers at CRIS Radio as part of a project called Voices of World War...
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...
On January 3, 1914, three hundred men and women who were on strike at the Shelton mill of Sidney Blumenthal marched in a solemn funeral procession from the “Cement House,” up the Fourth Street...
On March 20, 1917, the Bridgeport Evening Farmer ran an editorial praising the remarks before the Knights of St. Patrick of the editor of the New Haven Evening Union, Alexander Troup. Troup, I am...
On June 17, 1918, the Bridgeport Times carried a full-page ad urging the purchase of war savings stamps. The ad was placed by a lace manufacturer, the International Textile Company of Bridgeport. While most...
National immigration policy was highly contested in the years before, during, and just after World War I. Connecticut industry, like U.S. industry in general, saw itself as highly dependent on a massive influx...