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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Learning by Looking: Reading a Post-Civil War Photograph

What can we learn from an anonymous historical photograph?

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Myron D. Webster Civil War Haversack

How does an entire society participate in war?

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The Inventions of A. A. Hotchkiss And Sons

How did Sharon, Connecticut, manufacturers A. A. Hotchkiss and Sons contribute to major innovations in U.S. history?

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Nancy Toney

Abolition and African Americans in Connecticut

In what way did the abolition of slavery indicate progress, or decline, for the lives of African Americans?

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