All posts tagged "Hartford"
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3.4KToday's History Highlights ArchiveCensorship, a Police Strike and the Perils of Poker in Today’s History Highlights – 9.9.2013
(Note: Updated to Correct that colonies declared war on Narragansetts, not Wampanoags) Massachusetts Censors Tourism Guide In 1937, Massachusetts Gov. Charles Hurley...
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8.4K9Business and LaborBridgeport Women Workers and the Birth of the Eight Hour Day
On one summer day in 1915, thousands of women walked off the job in Bridgeport, Conn., demanding the eight hour day and...
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4.3K3MassachusettsMalcolm X and Martin Luther King Take a Freedom Trail Out of Boston
In 1951, Boston Evening Traveler columnist Walter Schofield began campaigning for the city to create a path taking pedestrians past milestones of...
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3.2KToday's History Highlights ArchiveComma Wars and Freeport Sea Captains in Today’s History Highlights – 8.23.2013
Did the Beat Generation authors Jack Kerouac and William Boroughs really get arrested in Lowell, Mass., for fighting over the use of...
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3.3K3Arts and LeisureBanned in Hartford, Panned in Boston – Tough Crowds in Early American Theater
An English stage couple trying to make a mark in early American theater in 1818 learned the hard way what a tough...
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14.6K13ConnecticutBlack Kings and Governors of New England
From about 1750 to 1850, New England had at least 31 elected black kings and governors, nearly all of them enslaved. They...
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