On October 1, 1909, the Bridgeport Evening Farmer carried the article inserted above. Who was this Edward S. Stephens, who spoke five modern languages, read Latin and Greek, taught Black children in his home...
On May 24, 1919, a date five months after the opening of the Paris Peace Conference at which the Allied victors of the First World War were meeting to set the...
The month of July in 1910 was a big month in the world of sports nationally and in Connecticut. On July 25, 1910, just a few weeks after he defeated James J. Jeffries...
This year, African American History Month coincides with the beginning of the centennial of World War I. Connecticut newspaper titles from this fascinating era were very recently selected for digitization (http://www.ctstatelibrary.org/cdnp). A short...