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There are books galore about American presidents — biographies, memoirs, analyses by colleagues, family members, scholars, journalists, by presidents…
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A Cold War fighter plane has started its journey from Hartford to a museum in New York City. But, it won’t be flying.The Douglas F4D Skyray is being…
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Saturday is Juneteenth. Long Islanders honored their own legacy during abolition with the recognition of Samuel Ballton, who fled slavery and was known as…
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Tiffany lampshades — made of leaded glass — are icons of American art. Louis Comfort Tiffany showed them to the public for the first time in the 1890s. It…
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It has been said, rather too often, that in the past year we have been living through history. But we live through history all the time, as long as we…
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Native American history would be a mandatory part of public schools in Connecticut, if a bill introduced by State Senator Cathy Osten passes.Osten’s…
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Some of the first European settlers in Connecticut heard mysterious rumblings that came from a small mountain in the town of East Haddam. Those sounds…
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The COVID-19 crisis has been compared to the 1918 pandemic commonly known as the Spanish Flu. A Stony Brook University history professor knows very well…
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Everybody knows girls don’t play with dolls after age six. At least, that was the toy industry’s belief in the mid 1980s, when a former schoolteacher…
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A proposal to eliminate the Regents exam in New York has alarmed some social studies teachers on Long Island. They worry if the state cuts the…