BACK ISSUES – FALL 2005
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FALL 2005
VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 4
IN THIS ISSUE: Liberty & Justice for All
 General Washington Strikes a Revolutionary Alliance
Abe Lincoln’s Overlooked Hartford Speech
Society Women Jailed for the Vote
The Red Scare Sweeps Connecticut
On the cover:
Procession of the Wide-Awake Club down Main Street, Hartford, July 26, 1860. Historians credit (as did Lincoln himself) the Wide Awakes, started in Hartford, with helping Lincoln win the presidency.
The Museum of American Political Life, University of Hartford.
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From the Publisher: |
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Letters, etc. |
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Setting the Watch Fires of Liberty.
By Mark Jones and Nancy O. Albert |
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The “Conference” State.
By Ann Harrison and Mary Donohue |
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Glimpses of Lincoln’s Brilliance.
By Gene Leach |
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Stamping Out the Reds.
By Jeffrey J. White |
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re: Collections
Freedom fighter John Brown figures prominently in a new exhibition. By Rehema Barber |
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Destinations
Nathan Hale Homestead celebrates our state hero’s 50th birthday.
By Rebecca Taber-ConoverFarmington’s stops on the Underground Railroad.
By Barbara Donahue |
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Soapbox Archives
A day at the movies in 1930s Hartford spells freedom for a young Walter E. Smith. |
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Afterword
Barn Again! on view in Windsor; where to get your 2006 Hartford hertitage calendar; the 2005 inductees to The Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame; and more… |
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FALL 2005
• The “Conference” State
• Glimpses of Lincoln’s Brilliance
• Stamping Out the Reds
SUMMER 2005
• Making Their Presence Known
• What’s a Puritan?
• Enfield’s Shaker Legacy
• Faith Congregational Church
SPRING 2005
• The Horseless Era Arrives
• Creative License, or Fundamental Fact?
• The Sky’s the Limit
• A Century of Connecticut Inventions
2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005
• Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School
• The Enigma of Wallace Stevens
• Lunch with Monet
AUG/SEP/OCT 2004
• The Education of Ella Grasso
• Ancient Burying Ground
• Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager
MAY/JUN/JUL 2004
• Miracle on Capital Avenue
• Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War
• A Piece of Silk Tells of the Richly Textured Fabric of Mill Town Life
FEB/MAR/APR 2004
• Hospital Rock
• A Well-stocked Saddlebag for the Doctor on Horseback
2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004
• A War Contested
• “If You Don’t Need It, DON’T BUY IT”
• Manufacturing for the War Effort
• Fighting for Freedom
SUMMER 2003
• An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age
• Audacious Alliances
• Sophia Woodhouse’s Grass Bonnets
SPRING 2003
• Hartford’s Motion Picture Palaces
• A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy
• The Hartford Dark Blues
WINTER 2003
• A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing
• The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street
• Francis Goodwin II’s reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge
FALL 2002
• A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History
• Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut
• A “Tomitude”
