Others

Bits and pieces have been written about other ethnic groups in Connecticut.

Ares, John. The Slavonian Community in Bridgeport. New York, 1971. A small pamphlet which we have not found.

Blair, Ruth M. "A Forgotten German Language Newspaper." CHS Bulletin 40(July, 1975)3:95-96. The Hartford Zeitung, a Douglas Democratic campaign paper of 1860. See above, in the "Antebellum Era" section.

Glasser, Ruth. Aqui Me Qudeo: Puerto Ricans in Connecticut, Middletown, Connecticut Humanities Council, 1997. Large-size format (11 x 8.5), facing pages in English and Spanish, this work appears to be aimed at bilingual high school classes. It is based on hundreds of interviews, scores of which are included not only in the text, but also in columns in the margins. This is a somewhat superficial narrative written in a very straightforward style, and lacking in national -- and even to an extent Connecticut -- context, but it fulfills a need, is well researched and authoritative.

Guiliotis, Mrs. George, ed. A History of the Creek Orthodox Community of Saint Barbara in New Haven. New Haven, 1969. Condensed in the Journal of the NHCHS 19(December, 1970)4:75-89.

Jacobus, Malencthon W. "The Dutchman in Connecticut," and "The Dutchman Again." Papers and Addresses of the Connecticut Society of Colonial Wars 2(1909)131-39; 143-48. Brief, superficial talks-but that's all there is in print on the Connecticut Dutch.

Kernstock, Elwyn Nicholas. "How New Migrants Behave Politically: The Puerto Rican in Hartford, 1970." Doctoral dissertation, University of Connecticut. 1972. "Certain broad generalizations are made evident .... [One] is a rather generally accepted concept that until the process of political socialization shall take effect, newcomers to an established community continue to behave politically as individuals in accordance with their native sets of attitudes and other behavioral characteristics. More central to the study's goals is the finding that mere ethnic commonality is not sufficient basis for the development of a political sub-community within a culturally pluralistic host community." (from the abstract)

Martin, Farrell. History of St. Cecilia's Parish, 1892-1908. Waterbury: Evening Democrat, 1908. Martin was the rector of the parish organized by German speaking Catholics in Waterbury. Martin, who had both a law degree and a Ph.D., was editor and proprietor of the Valley Catholic, a weekly, which ultimately became the Catholic Transcript.

Norton, Frederick E. "An Unwritten Tragedy." Connecticut Magazine 5(1899)2:108-09. In 1755, some 400 Acadians were sent to Connecticut, one family of five being assigned to Guilford. They lived there briefly and disappeared-a fate similar, apparently, to all the others'.

Rabinowitz, Polly. "Woodstock, Connecticut: New Sweden?" CHS Bulletin 39(April, 1974)2:33-46. Who were they? When and why did they leave Sweden! How did they adjust? And especially, how did they come to dominate Woodstock politics! Rabinowitz tries to answer these questions--and succeeds well enough, given the brevity of her article. The Clark master's theses cited under Shirley, below, are more complete but less accessible.

Rieger, Minette Schemel. "Diary of Minette Schemel Rieger, 1819-1843." German-American Review 26(August-September, 1960).

Ringius, Carl. "The Swedish People in Connecticut." This is the best piece we have found on the Swedes in Connecticut. We could find it only in a photocopy of the article torn from an unidentified journal at the Connecticut State Library. It is seventeen pages long and cataloged under Ringius.

Shirley, Ruth Carlson. "The Swedish Pioneers of Northeastern Connecticut (1872-1941)." Yearbook of the American-Swedish Historical Foundation, 1952. This is a summary of two Clark University master's theses, by Wensel W. Moberg and Carl G. Berg, both 1942, both based on interviews with seventy-five of the eighty-nine Swedish families still living in Thompson and Woodstock in 1941, fifty-seven of them immigrant families.

Stone, Frank Andrews. "Connecticut's Kilmarnock Scots." CHS Bulletin 44(0ctober, 1979)4:75-105. In 1790, with 2.6 percent of the population, the Scots were Connecticut's largest white minority. This article tells the story of a collaboration between the founder of the Thompsonville rug factory and sixty Kilmarnock Scots brought over to operate the machines.

--Scots and Scotch Irish in Connecticut: A History. Storrs: World Education Project, 1978. Another in the pamphlet series for school use. Much information, interestingly put. Numerous short sketches of both typical and outstanding Scotsmen in Connecticut.

Wolkovich, William. "Lithuanian Immigrants and their Irish Bishops in the Catholic Church in Connecticut, 1793-1951," in The Other Americans. Edited by Keith Dyrvd, et al. New York: Arno Press, 1978.

--"The Impact of a Catholic Newspaper on an Ethnic Community: The Lithuanian Weekly Rytas, 1896-98, Waterbury, Connecticut." Lithuanus 24(1978):42-53.

The Yankee response to the "new immigration" was late in developing, but World War I impelled the state's old-line elite to articulate and propagandize ancient Protestant virtues. That story has no chronicler in print, but see Bruce Fraser, "Yankees at War: Social Mobilization on the Connecticut Home Front, 1917-1918," Doctoral dissertation, Columbia, 1976.

Of course, every Connecticut community has its ethnic history. For the large cities, those accounts can be gleaned from the census reports, the newspapers, and local histories. Since most of the best town histories were written before the great wave of "new immigration," they miss this development. Local sources, nevertheless, serve best in the study of local ethnic communities. See also the sections below titled "Urban History," "The Black Experience," and "Religion."