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The
Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, 1636-1776
is a vast collection of the esssential records and documents
of Connecticut's Colonial period including the records of the
General Court, the Code of Laws of 1650, the Connecticut Charter,
records of wills and inventories, 1640-1649, correspondence
of the Council of War, 1675-77 and much more. |
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University
of Connecticut's Dodd
Center has loads of Connecticut-specific information.
Very little of their collection is digitized and online, but
all of their collections and where they can be found are listed. |
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The
Society of the Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut
provides a detailed timeline of Connecticut's Colonial history
as well as links to other historical resources. |
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The
Humanities
Text Initiative, especially the Making
of America portion, is pretty impressive. The collection
currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal
articles with 19th c. imprints. |
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United
States Historical Census Data Browser is organized
as a database and is a great resource for U.S. census information
ranging from 1790-1960. |
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Railroad
History Collections at the University of Connecticut
is a comprehensive site offering up a remarkable archive of
materials on the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad --
known as the New Haven Railroad. There are also 460 digitized
photos of New Haven Railroad trains online. |
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Yale
Law School's Avalon
Project has a good (and always expanding) collection
of materials on Law, History and Diplomacy. There is considerable
Connecticut-specific material from the 17th century to the present.
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University
of Connecticut's Center
for Oral History offers a substantial
catalog of different Connecticut-specific oral histories ranging
from the Colt Strike of 1934 to Voices of American Homemakers.
There are hundreds of interviewees listed. |
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The
Greater New Haven
Labor History Association's website offers online
history resources, photographs and research records on labor
history in the New Haven area. |
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Hartford
History is, naturally enough, Hartford-specific.
It contains the text of a number of articles and papers about
Hartford, lists of books about Hartford, links to other Hartford
sites and a bulletin board. |
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The
Hartford
Studies Project "encourages Trinity students
and faculty to explore Hartford's history and present experience
of issues such as race, immigration, culture, labor and local
politics." |
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STAMFORD,
CONNECTICUT-A BIBLIOGRAPHY is
an
annotated, indexed compilation of books, pamphlets, special
editions of newspapers, atlas, articles in periodicals, and
motion picture film,
containing information relating to the history of Stamford,
Connecticut. |
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A
Canterbury Tale: A Document Package for Connecticut's Prudence
Crandall Affair. Find primary source materials
on Prudence Crandall's life and work on the website of The Gilder
Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition.
The site also features other important resources on slavery
in America for historians and teachers. |
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Colchester
Talks is an online community presence for the town
of Colchester, featuring photo archives and short essays on
interesting facets of the town's history. |
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The
Center
for Connecticut Studies collects both primary and
secondary materials on all aspects of the Connecticut's history
and development with a particular focus on Windham, Tolland,
and New London counties. |
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