The Struggle for Equality: Black Burials in the Old Willimantic Cemetery

To what extent did burial practices reflect the status of enslaved people and free Black people in Connecticut?

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Connecticut’s Complicity in Slavery

To what extent was Connecticut a “slave state”?

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Anti-Racist Allies and Accomplices in Connecticut History

In what ways are both anti-racist allies and anti-racist accomplices important in the struggle for social justice?

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Telling Their Stories: African Americans in the American Revolution

How do historians reconstruct the stories of people from the past?

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The Role of Enslaved People in Founding Connecticut

Why should enslaved people be seen as “founders” of Connecticut?

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Understanding the Census: Tracking Connecticut’s Black Population

How did attitudes towards slavery and Black Americans change over time in early Connecticut?

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The Triumph and Tragedy of Urban Renewal

Who decides what infrastructure is good for people?

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Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Coast Guard

What does patriotism mean to different communities within the United States?

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LGBTQ+ History in Connecticut: Advocacy and Organization

How did the modern LGBTQ+ movement develop and evolve in Connecticut?

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LGBTQ+ History in Connecticut: Colonial Era Laws and Legislation

How did colonial laws marginalize LGBTQ+ individuals?

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LGBTQ+ History in Connecticut: Medical Marginalization

How were LGBTQ+ individuals marginalized through medicalization in the 20th century?

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Zoning: Examining Housing Policy in Connecticut

How have rules about housing shaped Connecticut?

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No to Nazis in Connecticut: Southbury Takes a Stand

To what extent can individuals be agents of change in their communities?

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The Problem with “Delinquent Women”: The Connecticut State Farm for Women, 1915-1938

To what extent should individuals, groups, and/or institutions have the power to make decisions about the lives and welfare of others?

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Religious Freedom for Jews in Connecticut

How did Jewish immigrants expand religious freedom in Connecticut?

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Immigrants Build a Community: Hartford Jews in the Early 20th Century

How did immigrants build a community in Hartford in the early 20th century?

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Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb: A Role Model in STEM and Higher Education

To what extent is it easier for women and people of color to enter the fields of STEM and higher education today than it was in the 1950s–1990s?

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Housing Segregation in Connecticut

In what ways is segregation still practiced in the United States today?

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Geographies of Food: The Roles of Migration, Landscape, and Food Availability in the United States

How have geography and history shaped regional differences in foods in the United States?

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Foodscapes of Connecticut

What geographical and historical factors affect the foodscapes of Connecticut?

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Mary Townsend Seymour: A Hartford Activist Fights for Equity

In what ways have communities of color advocated for equity?

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Empowering Students’ “Civic Voices” in Local and State Government: Middle/High

Why is it important that students use their “civic voices” in local and state government to produce positive change?

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Words Change the World: Teaching About Racial Injustice Through the Work of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Ta-Nehisi Coates

To what extent can fiction and non-fiction both help us learn, change, and adapt our understanding of an historic or contemporary moment?

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Learning by Looking: Reading a Post-Civil War Photograph

What can we learn from an anonymous historical photograph?

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Late 1960s Civil Unrest in Connecticut’s Capital City

What conditions led to civil unrest in the 1960s?

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The Chinese Educational Mission and How Asian American Stories Reframe American History

How did participating in the Chinese Educational Mission influence both its students and America?

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Bilingual Education for Spanish Speakers in 1970s Hartford

How have communities advocated for fair and equal access to education in Connecticut?

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The Black Panthers and the May Day Rally in New Haven

How is the First Amendment used to advocate for justice in America?

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Post-World War II Puerto Rican Farm Labor Migration to Connecticut

How did Connecticut industries influence migration and immigration to the state and the development of new communities?

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Visions of Change: Colt and the Growth of Industrial Connecticut

What impact did industrialization have on people’s lives in the mid- to late-19th century?

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Connecticut’s Ratification of the Constitution

How are decisions made about how a nation should be governed?

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Church & State in the “Land of Steady Habits”

Has there ever been complete separation of church and state in Connecticut?

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A Connecticut Lawyer Stands for Human Rights

To what extent is the international community responsible for the protection of human rights?

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“Women of Connecticut: Are You Helping?” The Reaction to Emergency Food Measures During World War I

Do government campaigns to promote “voluntary” patriotic efforts in a time of war strengthen or weaken American democracy?

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“Saved.” Theodate Pope and the Sinking of the Lusitania

To what extent has the United States succeeded in remaining neutral in times of war or global conflict?

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Connecticut Prepares for War, 1917

How does the role of government change in a time of war?

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Peach Pit Hogshead

Joining the War Effort, One Peach Pit at a Time

How does an entire society participate in war?

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Letter from Charles F. Coughlin to his mother, November 16, 1917

Over There: A Connecticut Soldier in France

How do you measure the cost of war?

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The Immigrant Experience During World War I: Enemy Aliens

How did the government effort to mobilize and monitor the Connecticut home front during World War I affect the immigrant experience and conceptions of national identity?

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Detail of the pamphlet American Ideals

Beware Thy Neighbor? German Americans in Connecticut during WWI

Has America always been a “Land of Opportunity” for immigrants?

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W. E. B. Dubois in the office of The Crisis

Black World War I Veterans Demand Civil Rights

How did World War I impact the struggle for civil rights in Connecticut and America?

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“Making Munitions is a Woman’s Job” During World War I

What impact did the women of Connecticut have on the Great War (WWI)?

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World War I Propaganda

What role does propaganda play in a time of war?

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Hill-Stead workers and overseer Allen Cook, ca. 1913

Is That a Mastodon?! A Case Study in Civic Responsibility

To what extent are we, as citizens and communities, responsible for scientifically and/or historically significant finds on public property?

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The Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut

How did the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) impact Connecticut?

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On the Move: The Bicycle, Women, and Social Change in the 19th Century

To what extent are technology, fashion, and social reform interconnected?

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Suffragists

Connecticut Women and the Women’s Suffrage Movement

How have American concepts of freedom and equality changed since the 1870s? How might the changes be perceived differently by different segments of the population?

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African Americans in Progressive-Era CT: The Battle Over the Jack Johnson Fight film

What does the battle over the Johnson-Jeffries fight film tell us about the social position of African Americans in Progressive-Era Connecticut?

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Roots of Labor Unrest in Progressive-Era CT

What were the causes of the labor unrest that roiled Connecticut in the years between 1900 and World War I?

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