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...
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...
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...
The Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project is excited to share the news that Professor Roger Bilisoly at Central Connecticut State University has been able to utilize newspapers that we recently digitized to explore data mining...
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 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,...
On Memorial Day one hundred years ago today, the Howland Dry Goods Co. of Bridgeport chose to use their advertising space in the Bridgeport Evening Farmer to publish this commentary on the Great War...
Introduction During the height of the Great War in Europe, the Connecticut press was flush with headlines promoting and recording countless examples of war work. As Washington began sending troops abroad, various media outlets,...
Introduction Though entering the dangerous waters around the British Isles, passengers onboard the luxury liner RMS Lusitania took comfort in the fact that were onboard a unarmed passenger vessel. Sadly, the reality of...
On September 20, 1917, the Bridgeport Evening Farmer ran a special feature, reprinting in full the letters of resignation from the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association written by two of the state movement’s most prominent...