Our State's many museums and historical societies aren't the only places you can explore the great themes, events and personalities of our past.

Click on the links below to explore an on-line story of our past.

An Orderly and Decent Government traces the origins and evolution of the state legislature, from its colonial beginnings to the present.

Imagining Connecticut presents 25 powerful images and accompanying text that describe the major forces that have shaped Connecticut.

TownGreens.com offers both an expanding collection of exhibits on Connecticut's town greens as well as research opportunities on its site. Visit to learn more about your town's green!

Bridgeport Working: Voices from the 20th Century features oral histories by the people of Bridgeport. Lots of audio clips and photographs enliven this award-winning exhibition.

The American Artist in Connecticut
Paintings and sculptures by artists who lived and worked in Connecticut from the late Colonial period to the early 20th century.

Edward Rook, "Laurel" (detail),

c. 1905-10, courtesty of

Florence Griswold Museum

Nuestras Historias is dedicated to telling the stories and experiences of Hartford's Puerto Rican communitity over the past 50 years.

They Found Their Way
explores generations of Jewish life in Waterbury.  The site is based on oral histories and photo collections of Waterbury residents.

Seder, 1959

(Collection of Natalie Bram)

Courtesy of Mattatuck Museum

Amos Congdon: Connecticut Yankee Meet Connecticut woodsman Amos Congdon through the images and prose of his photographer Tony Donovan.

Rivers, Edens, Empires: Lewis&Clark and the Revealing of America
A Library of Congress exhibition commemorating in the bicentennial of the explorers expedition.

The American Artist in Connecticut
The Legacy of the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection


Voices from the Underground: Radical Protest and the Underground Press

Hartford Black History Project
A Struggle from the Start

Portrait of a Family: Stamford through the Legacy of the Davenports

Stamford's Civil War: At Home and in the Field

A virtual tour of the Stamford Historical Society's Civil War exhibit.

Priscilla's Homecoming

An African American woman traces her roots to a 10 year old girl taken as a slave from Sierra Leone.

a program of the Gilder Lehrman Center

 

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