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Grating the Nutmeg — 242 episodes

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234. Saving Connecticut's Historic Barns

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233. Rough Justice for Connecticut State Hero Nathan Hale (10th Anniversary Encore Release)

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232. Guides for Black Travelers: New London's Green Book Sites

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231. John Hooker: Hartford's Abolitionist Lawyer

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230. Pursuing Happiness: New Horizons Village

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229. Irish Immigration in Art from the Fairfield Great Hunger Museum at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum

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228. Sports Heaven: The Birth of ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut

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227. Pioneering Woman Sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman

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226. Abby (and Julia) Smith and Their Cows

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225. On Trial: Alfred Marder and Catherine Roraback - A Communist's Arrest in 1950's McCarthy-era New Haven (10th Anniversary Encore Release)

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224. Scholar, Activist, Trailblazer: The Enduring Legacy of Dr. Lorenzo Greene

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223. The 'Great Temperance Times' in Nineteenth-Century Black Connecticut

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222. Cabbage Patch Kids and West Hartford's Toymaker Coleco

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221. New Haven's Lt. Augusto Rodríguez, First Civil War Soldier from Puerto Rico

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220. Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Plant: The Promise and Peril of Nuclear Energy

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219. Transgender History and Connecticut Transgender Pioneer Dr. Alan L. Hart

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218. Connecticut in the Industrial Revolution: Making Buttons in Cheshire

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217. The Smith Family of Glastonbury: Hannah and Her Daughters

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216. Brewing Community: Labor, Alcohol, and Unrest in Industrial New Britain

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215. Connecticut's Wild Visionary: Children's Author Maurice Sendak

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214. Monstrous: The Business of Whaling

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213. When the Continental Army Camped in Connecticut

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212. Ingredients for Revolution: Feminist Restaurants featuring Bloodroot Restaurant

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211. Leviathan: New Englanders and the History of Whaling

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210. The Mattatuck Museum: Waterbury and Summer Leisure

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209. Mary Hall and the Good Will Club

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208. Saving Connecticut's Mid-Century Modern Homes

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207. Book and Dagger: Yale Professors Become Successful WWII Spies

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206. Hartford's Rural Cemetery: Cedar Hill

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205. Coffee — A Connecticut Story

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204. Artistry, Charm, and Whimsy: Connecticut's Carousel Museum

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203. Amistad Retold: New Haven and the 1839 Amistad Revolt

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202. Miss Crandall's School for Black Women

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201. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir with Griffin Dunne

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200. Erector Sets, Trains and New Haven's Toymaker A.C. Gilbert

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199. G. Fox and Company Department Store and the Holidays

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198. Entwined: Black and Indigenous Maritime History

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197. Mark Twain and the American Presidents

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196. Connecticut Body Snatchers: Merchandising the Dead in the 19th Century

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195. George Griffin: Revealing the Life and Likeness of Mark Twain's Butler

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194. Revolutionary War Hero Lafayette Makes a Triumphal Return Tour

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193. Radical Connecticut: Labor Strikes!

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192. More than Dinosaurs: The New Peabody Museum of Natural History

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191. The Hartford Circus Fire Tragedy

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190. Phyllis Zlotnick, Disability Rights Activist

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189. Sherlock Holmes and William Gillette's Castle

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188. Revealing Queer Lives: Connecticut's LGBTQ History

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187. Derby's Charlton Comics: "No Other Place Like It"

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186. New Haven's Pioneering Grove Street Cemetery

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185. Connecticut Industries Unite for WWII Victory: Pratt, Read & Co Gliders

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184. The Borinqueneers: Puerto Rico's Men of the 65th Regiment

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183. Margaret Rudkin of Pepperidge Farm

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182. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

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181. Hartford and the Great Migration, 1914-1950

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180. Colonial Connecticut: Sugar, Slavery and Connections to the West Indies

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179. Connecticut's Benedict Arnold: America's Most Hated Man

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178. Mark Twain, Spiritualism and Ghost Stories

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177. Murder on Prospect Street

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176. Witchcraft Uncovered: New Discoveries and Exonerations

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175. Sleeping with the Ancestors in Connecticut

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174. Asher Benjamin, Connecticut's Early Builder and Architect 1773-1845

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173. Baseball Runs in the Springer Family

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172. Connecticut Lighthouses: Lifesaving Beacons Along the Shore

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171. Connecticut's Very Pink House-Roseland Cottage

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170. Connecticut Senator George McLean Protects America's Wild Birds

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169. Connecticut's 17th Regiment Volunteer Infantry at the Battle of Gettysburg

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168. Connecticut's Cape Verdean Community

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167. New Lives for Old Factories: Cheshire's Ball & Socket Arts

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166. Connecticut at the 1964 New York World's Fair

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165. Connecticut's Would-Be Woodstock: The Powder Ridge Festival

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164. Philip Johnson's Glass House

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163. How Connecticut Got Zoning (CTE Game Changer Series)

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162. Picturing Puerto Rico in Conceptual Art: The Museum of the Old Colony by Pablo Delano (CTE Game Changer Series)

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161. Carbonated Connecticut

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160. Saving Jewish Farming History in Chesterfield

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159. Stories from Connecticut's Western Reserve in Ohio

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158. Theodate Pope Survives the Sinking of the Lusitania

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157. Journeys: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission

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156. The Legendary Toad's Place Nightclub in New Haven

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155. Celebrating Hartford's Black Firefighters (CTE Game Changers Series)

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154. Numbers to Names: Restoring Humanity to CT Valley Hospital Cemetery

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153. Saving Connecticut's World War 1 History-Here and in France (CTE Game Changers Series)

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152. Hartford and Puerto Rico: A Conversation with Elena Rosario and Pablo Delano (CTE Game Changer Series)

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151. Little Liberia: The Mary and Eliza Freeman Center (CTE Game Changer Series)

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150. Common Struggle, Individual Experience: How Can Museums Talk About Mental Health? (CTE Game Changer Series)

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149. New London and the Middle Passage (CTE Game Changer Series)

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148. Rediscovering the Battle of Ridgefield

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147. The Hindenburg Flies Over Connecticut

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146. Votes (and Markers) for Women!

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145. Activists Paul and Eslanda Robeson in Connecticut

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144. A Visit to the Katharine Hepburn Museum at "The Kate" in Old Saybrook

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143. The Need for Speed on the Connecticut River

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142. The Institute of Living at 200

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141. Saving the Merritt Parkway

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140. New Hope For a Connecticut Champion

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139. Architect Donn Barber Designs Hartford's Early Skyscrapers

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138. The Glorious Wide Awakes

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137. An American Woman Artist Abroad — Mary Rogers Williams

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136. The Lemon Law Turns 40

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135. Zinc Gravestones - Bridgeport's Monumental Bronze Company

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134. "Another Name for Happiness:" The Life of Ann Plato

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133. P.T. Barnum Builds a City

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132. "John Norton's Vagabond," A Victorian Christmas Story

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131. When Contraception Was a Crime: Griswold v. CT

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130. Whatever Happened to Nick Bellantoni?

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129. Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America

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128. A Connecticut Historian Makes History: Recovering Phyllis Wheatley's Lost Years

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127. Telling Your Family Story with Jill Marie Snyder and Orice Jenkins

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126. The Three Lives of Kevin Johnson

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125. Precious Memories Captured in Hair

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124. Lydia Sigourney, Benedict Arnold, & The Battle of Bunker Hill

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123. Connecticut Seen: The Photography of Pablo Delano and Jack Delano

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122. The New Connecticut Yankee

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121. Rooted in History: Connecticut's Trees

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120. How Four Connecticut Inventors Helped Change The Way We Live, Think, & Act

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119. Uncovering Connecticut's LGBTQ History

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118. The Connecticut RIver Valley Flood of 1936

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117. Before 42: Ball Players of Color in Connecticut

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116. Connecticut In Motion: The Story of Our Time

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115. America's First Public Rose Garden - Elizabeth Park

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114. When Tombs Are Also Crime Scenes

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113. Yale Needs Women

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112. And So The Tomb Remained

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111. The New Haven Black Panther Trials

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110. Polish Jewish History, World War II and a Jewish Child's Survival

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109. Communicating with the Spirits: Theodate Pope Riddle

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108. Up and Down the River

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107. Miss Florence's Boardinghouse and American Impressionism

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106–Part 1 Steve Grant's Legendary 1991 Source-to-Sea Connecticut River Journey

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106 - Part 2. Steve Grant's Legendary 1991 Source to Sea Connecticut River Journey

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105. Connecticut's Rosie the Riveter: Working Women in WWII

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104. Great Traditions: The Connecticut Election Cake

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103. Cannonballs and Skyscrapers: Keeler Tavern Museum

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102. Archimedes, Silk Worms, Vanderbilt & The Perfect Screw

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101. Sophie Tucker, Hartford's Red Hot Mama

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100. The Unlikely Legend – and History – of the Charter Oak

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99. Connecticut's Mount Rushmore Connection

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98. Two Stories From World War II

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97. Uncovering African American Women's Fight for Suffrage

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96. Rough Justice for Nathan Hale

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95. Beware of the Sea, for it is a Wide, Wide Love

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94. Connecticut's Jewish Farmers

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93. Connecticut and the Pandemic of 1918

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92. Connecticut's Carnegie Libraries: Bricks, Bucks and Books

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91. Tom Linskey's Hearth-Cooked Feast

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90. Bob Steele, the Voice of Connecticut Radio

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89. Why Teaching African American History in Connecticut Matters

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88. Educated For Freedom

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87. Time Capsule: Dirt Floor Studio and Connecticut Music

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86. Who Paid for the American Revolution? The Founding Fortunes

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85. Connecticut Christmas Stories & Song

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84. War, Maps & Mystery

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83. Exit Interview with a History Icon

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82. Writing with Scissors: Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Scrapbooks

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81. Wilbur L. Cross, Connecticut Yankee

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80. Novelist Ann Petry and Exploring the Family Tree

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79. Gov. Ned Lamont, "100 Years of Fake News and Real and Fake Wars"

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78. Uncovering African and Native American Lives in 17th - 18th Century Hartford

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77. The Delicious History of Pizza in New Haven

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76. The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut in the 1920s

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75.For Whom The Tolls Toll. The History of Toll Roads in Connecticut.

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74. Post WWII: 1949 Travel Diary of Beatrice Auerbach with Congresswoman Chase Woodhouse

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73. Dept Stores, G.Fox and the Black Freedom Movement

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72a BONUS EPISODE: Colin Calloway on Dartmouth as a School for Native Americans

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72. "Samson Occom the Man" - Mohegan Elder Beth Regan

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71 Eleazar Wheelock, The Great Awakening, Samson Occom & the Indian School

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70. Anni and Josef Albers in Connecticut

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69. The Breach: Voices Haunting a New England Mill Town

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68. Fort Trumbull's Three Lives

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67. Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London

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66. Sharon Cures: One Small Town of Medical Marvels

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65. Norwalk's Village Creek Ahead of Its Time

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64. Best Winter History Reads

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63. Why the Constitution of 1818 Matters Today

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62. Three Centuries of Christmas at the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum

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61. Feasts, Facts & Fictions : Cooking REAL New England Holiday Foods

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60. SPECIAL CPTV Audio Documentary: BARNUM'S CONNECTICUT

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59. Constitution of 1818 Part 4: Milestone in Church State Relations?

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58. Keeping it Clean in World War I

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57. Breaking Golf's Color Line in Hartford

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56. Constitution of 1818 Part 3: The Constitutional Debates

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55. Constitution of 1818 Part 2: The Collapse of Connecticut Federalists' Dominance

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54. The Long Journeys Home Part 1 - Henry 'Opukaha'ia

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54. The Long Journeys Home Part 2 – Albert Afraid of Hawk

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53. Hopes and Expectations: Creation of a Black Middle Class in Hartford

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52. Mark Twain's Native American Problem

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51. Greater Hartford's West Indian Diaspora

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50. A Seaside Village in the Big City: Morris Cove

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49. The Professor's Secret Life

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48. Mid-century Modern in Connecticut

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47. How We Learned, Loved, & Mourned: A Field Trip

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46. Staying on the Land: Five Generations of Connecticut Pioneers

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45. Trouble in the Land of Steady Habits

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44. The Amazing Story Behind America's First Cookbook

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43. The Challenge of Fair Housing in CT's Suburbs

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42. Treasures of the Watkinson

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41. HAVE ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND CONNECTICUT'S JAMESTOWN?

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40. Wicked Hartford!

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39 Witch-Hunting in Connecticut Part 1 - The European Prelude

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39 Witch-Hunting in Connecticut Part 2 The Connecticut Trials

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39. Witch-Hunting in Connecticut Part 3 – Interview with Richard Ross, BEFORE SALEM

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38. Talkin' About the 9/11 Generation

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37. Aboard the First Yacht that Sailed the Connecticut River . . . in 1614

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36. Fidelia Bridges's Connection to Old Lyme & a Ride on the Air Line Trail

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35. Bagel Beach and Jewish Vacationers at the CT Shore

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34. Caroline Ferriday Inspires a Bestseller

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33. WORLD WAR I REENACTORS TELL ALL

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32. Hops, Beer and Hartford's Union Brewery Strike

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31. The NEW Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

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30. Part 3 P T BARNUM'S THE ART OF MONEY GETTING

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30 Part 2. THE 1st TEN RULES FOR MAKING MONEY, by P T BARNUM

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30. P T BARNUM AND THE ART OF MONEY-GETTING

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29. Art, Agency, Legacy: 30 Years of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture

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28. Connecticut in WWI: Letters from the Front

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27. Sam Colt Mines the West

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26. Catharine Beecher Educates the West

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25. On to Mexico! The Connecticut National Guard

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24. THE GERMAN INVASION OF CONNECTICUT IN WORLD WAR I

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23. The Great American Road Trip with New Haven Museum

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22. The Smithsonian's Eric Hintz: HARTFORD AS A PLACE OF INVENTION

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21 Holiday Episode 2: A CONNECTICUT CHRISTMAS from TWAIN & STOWE

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20. HOLIDAY EPISODE 1 - SOUP AND STORIES

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19. CONNECTICUT INNOVATES

224

18. .GOVERNOR JOHN DEMPSEY – SON OF CAHIR (Audio & VIDEO)

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17. A PIRATE'S TALE & VISIT TO NEWGATE PRISON

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16 DRINKING IN HISTORY AT THE NOAH WEBSTER HOUSE

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15. WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT? - LAW AND ORDER EDITION

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14. BRADLEY FIELD AND EUGENE BRADLEY

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13. DISCOVERY! CONNECTICUT'S MOST IMPORTANT DIG EVER!

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12. GREAT FINDS! – INSIDE AND OUT

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11. WALLACE NUTTING AND THE WEBB DEANE STEVENS MUSEUM

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10. POETRY AND PATRIOTS IN STONINGTON & SHACK ATTACK!

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9. LYMAN ORCHARDS TURNS 275 AND WHAT'S IT ALL ABOUT–SUMMER EDITION

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8. A SERVANT SHOWS US THE TWAIN HOME & 10/40 AT FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM

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7. A COMMUNIST'S ARREST IN 1950'S NEW HAVEN

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7E (Extended Version) A COMMUNIST'S ARREST IN 1950'S NEW HAVEN

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6. IRISH EYES, AND VOTING AND PROTESTING

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5. WHAT MAKES CONNECTICUT CONNECTICUT

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4: CONNECTICUT CLOCKS AND AMERICAN WORDS

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3: SPEED DATE A HISTORY CONFERENCE / MUSICAL CLUB OF HARTFORD

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2: ICONIC BRANDS / AUDOBON BIRD CALL / TOASTER?

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1: WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT / LEBANON'S AMAZING BENEFACTOR