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The Right to an Education: Connecticut’s 1965 Education Amendment
How has the right to education evolved in Connecticut, and why does it matter today?
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The Demand for Change: Federal Intervention and the 1965 Constitutional Convention
How did the 1965 Constitutional Convention represent a turning point in Connecticut's commitment to the principle of "one person, one vote" and democratic representation?
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The Uneven Playing Field: Connecticut’s Representation Before 1965
To what extent does the way we count people determine whether a system of government is fair and representative?
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Becoming a Connecticut Lawmaker: Role-Playing the Legislative Process
How do we make laws that are fair?
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How Innovation Shaped Connecticut’s History
How did technology-based industries influence Connecticut’s history and contribute to America’s story?
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Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist
How can one person’s determination make a difference in our community, state, and world?
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Historic Taverns of Connecticut
What role did taverns play in people’s lives in Connecticut during the late 18th and early 19th century?
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A Petition for Freedom in 1779
How did laws and rules in the colonies both promote and hinder freedom and equality?
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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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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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Trade between the Tunxis and the English in the 1700s
In what ways were the English and Indigenous peoples in Connecticut economically interconnected in the mid-1700s?
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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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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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Making a Difference: Individuals in Connecticut History
What is the significance of Connecticut’s contribution to America’s story?
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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: Elementary
Why is it important that students use their “civic voices” in local and state government to produce positive change?
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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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Cruel and Unusual: An Interdisciplinary Study of Incarceration Across Two Centuries
What is “cruel and unusual” punishment?
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The Hartford Convention: An Act of Treason?
Was the Hartford Convention an act of treason?
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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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Eugenics in Connecticut: Legislating Genetic Purity in the Nutmeg State
Are all reforms good?
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The First Puerto Rican Day Parade in Hartford
Why is it important that groups can celebrate their cultural and ethnic backgrounds in America?
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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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Church & State in the “Land of Steady Habits”
Has there ever been complete separation of church and state in Connecticut?
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The Fundamental Orders: Rules and Laws for Early Colonial Connecticut
What is the best way to organize a government? How did laws and rules in the colonies both promote and hinder freedom and equality?
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Connecticut Heroes of World War I
What is the significance of Connecticut’s contribution to America’s story?
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Kids in Connecticut History: Image Analysis Skill-Builder
In what ways have the lives of children in Connecticut changed or stayed the same over time?
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Joining the War Effort, One Peach Pit at a Time
How does an entire society participate in war?
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Free Speech and Seditious Speech on the CT World War I Home Front
Does free speech exist in a time of war?
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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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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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Mapping the New World: Dutch Maps of the Colonies
How did the physical geography of New England affect how the colonies developed?
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Exploring Communities: Using Historic Maps to Learn about the Past
Why do our communities look the way they do today?
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Hartford: Then and Now
In what ways has Hartford, Connecticut, changed and/or stayed the same over time?
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