Reckoning with Racist Violence

I think Mary Seymour is smiling. On Tuesday, March 29th, 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the Emmett Till … More

Storm Center of Labor Unrest

On the morning of June 27, 1905, Bill Haywood used a piece of wood as a gavel to open the … More

The history of the early Connecticut women’s movement is not complete without the story of Josephine Bennett (1880-1961). A militant … More

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn celebrated May Day with Connecticut textile workers on May 1, 1912. This little-known speech was a special moment, … More

The small plaque in the south corner of the State Capitol identifies the names of early 20th century Connecticut women … More

The British campaign to win the vote for women was led in large measure by Emmeline Pankhurst. She spoke to … More

Connecticut has no shortage of war memorials and statues featuring prominent business and political leaders. The celebration of the state’s … More

If she hadn’t worn her red dress to the picket line, Amelia Sabich might have lived a normal, quiet life. … More

Isabel Blake challenges state legislators to “meet with us and talk things over.” The legislators stay silent. “We don’t bite,” … More

Sol Bidek’s family lived in a tenement on Market Street in Hartford. They waited several days for word from New … More

No ESPN, no sports radio, no internet scores. In 1913, all Hartford baseball fans had was the Megaphone Man. He … More

A Shoeleather History of the Wobblies: Stories of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in Connecticut is a new book … More

Ethel Thompson and her family reached Hartford after midnight. She entered the Hotel Essex on Main Street and went to … More

Will the union vote count on election day? For the last one hundred years it has, in Hartford and around … More

On a cool and sunny fall day in Hartford, ten thousand people jammed into Bushnell Park with one goal: to … More

Ann Dunn and Caroline McElroy were unceremoniously escorted to the police station where they were charged with prostitution. The arrest … More

One of the most dangerous women in America spoke in Hartford on February 12, 1913. “Red Emma” Goldman talked about … More

It was March, 1912. Emily Pierson and her sister suffragists were on a statewide tour of Connecticut, putting up posters, … More

In 1955, Rosa Parks was removed from a city bus by a Montgomery, Alabama police officer. Her arrest sparked a … More

The factory owner demanded sixty hours a week from the young women employed at the Government Envelope Works on South … More

On a cold winter morning in February 1919, the “Prison Special” pulled into the Union Place train station. Departing from … More