All Episodes

237. Mary Barlow: Hartford's Fallen "Six-Triple-Eight" Soldier

236. Greater Hartford's West Indian Diaspora (10th Anniversary Encore Release)

235. Awakenings and Revolutions: The Harts, Saybrook, and the New Nation

234. Saving Connecticut's Historic Barns

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

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

231. John Hooker: Hartford's Abolitionist Lawyer

230. Pursuing Happiness: New Horizons Village

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

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

227. Pioneering Woman Sculptor Evelyn Beatrice Longman

226. Abby (and Julia) Smith and Their Cows

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

214. Monstrous: The Business of Whaling

213. When the Continental Army Camped in Connecticut

212. Ingredients for Revolution: Feminist Restaurants featuring Bloodroot Restaurant

211. Leviathan: New Englanders and the History of Whaling

210. The Mattatuck Museum: Waterbury and Summer Leisure

209. Mary Hall and the Good Will Club

208. Saving Connecticut's Mid-Century Modern Homes

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

206. Hartford's Rural Cemetery: Cedar Hill

205. Coffee — A Connecticut Story

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

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

202. Miss Crandall's School for Black Women

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

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

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

198. Entwined: Black and Indigenous Maritime History

197. Mark Twain and the American Presidents

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

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

194. Revolutionary War Hero Lafayette Makes a Triumphal Return Tour

193. Radical Connecticut: Labor Strikes!

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

191. The Hartford Circus Fire Tragedy

190. Phyllis Zlotnick, Disability Rights Activist

189. Sherlock Holmes and William Gillette's Castle

188. Revealing Queer Lives: Connecticut's LGBTQ History

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

186. New Haven's Pioneering Grove Street Cemetery

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

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

183. Margaret Rudkin of Pepperidge Farm

182. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

181. Hartford and the Great Migration, 1914-1950

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

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

178. Mark Twain, Spiritualism and Ghost Stories

177. Murder on Prospect Street

176. Witchcraft Uncovered: New Discoveries and Exonerations

175. Sleeping with the Ancestors in Connecticut

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

173. Baseball Runs in the Springer Family

172. Connecticut Lighthouses: Lifesaving Beacons Along the Shore

171. Connecticut's Very Pink House-Roseland Cottage

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

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

168. Connecticut's Cape Verdean Community

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

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

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

164. Philip Johnson's Glass House

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

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

161. Carbonated Connecticut

160. Saving Jewish Farming History in Chesterfield

159. Stories from Connecticut's Western Reserve in Ohio

158. Theodate Pope Survives the Sinking of the Lusitania

157. Journeys: Boys of the Chinese Educational Mission

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

148. Rediscovering the Battle of Ridgefield

147. The Hindenburg Flies Over Connecticut

146. Votes (and Markers) for Women!

145. Activists Paul and Eslanda Robeson in Connecticut

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

143. The Need for Speed on the Connecticut River

142. The Institute of Living at 200

141. Saving the Merritt Parkway

140. New Hope For a Connecticut Champion

139. Architect Donn Barber Designs Hartford's Early Skyscrapers

138. The Glorious Wide Awakes

137. An American Woman Artist Abroad — Mary Rogers Williams

136. The Lemon Law Turns 40

135. Zinc Gravestones - Bridgeport's Monumental Bronze Company

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

133. P.T. Barnum Builds a City

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

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

130. Whatever Happened to Nick Bellantoni?

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

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

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

126. The Three Lives of Kevin Johnson

125. Precious Memories Captured in Hair

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

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

122. The New Connecticut Yankee

121. Rooted in History: Connecticut's Trees

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

119. Uncovering Connecticut's LGBTQ History

118. The Connecticut RIver Valley Flood of 1936

117. Before 42: Ball Players of Color in Connecticut

116. Connecticut In Motion: The Story of Our Time

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

114. When Tombs Are Also Crime Scenes

113. Yale Needs Women

112. And So The Tomb Remained

111. The New Haven Black Panther Trials

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

109. Communicating with the Spirits: Theodate Pope Riddle

108. Up and Down the River

107. Miss Florence's Boardinghouse and American Impressionism

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

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

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

104. Great Traditions: The Connecticut Election Cake

103. Cannonballs and Skyscrapers: Keeler Tavern Museum

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

101. Sophie Tucker, Hartford's Red Hot Mama

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

99. Connecticut's Mount Rushmore Connection

98. Two Stories From World War II

97. Uncovering African American Women's Fight for Suffrage

96. Rough Justice for Nathan Hale

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

94. Connecticut's Jewish Farmers

93. Connecticut and the Pandemic of 1918

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

91. Tom Linskey's Hearth-Cooked Feast

90. Bob Steele, the Voice of Connecticut Radio

89. Why Teaching African American History in Connecticut Matters

88. Educated For Freedom

87. Time Capsule: Dirt Floor Studio and Connecticut Music

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

85. Connecticut Christmas Stories & Song

84. War, Maps & Mystery

83. Exit Interview with a History Icon

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

81. Wilbur L. Cross, Connecticut Yankee

80. Novelist Ann Petry and Exploring the Family Tree

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

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

77. The Delicious History of Pizza in New Haven

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

70. Anni and Josef Albers in Connecticut

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

68. Fort Trumbull's Three Lives

67. Louis Comfort Tiffany in New London

66. Sharon Cures: One Small Town of Medical Marvels

65. Norwalk's Village Creek Ahead of Its Time

64. Best Winter History Reads

63. Why the Constitution of 1818 Matters Today

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

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

60. SPECIAL CPTV Audio Documentary: BARNUM'S CONNECTICUT

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

58. Keeping it Clean in World War I

57. Breaking Golf's Color Line in Hartford

56. Constitution of 1818 Part 3: The Constitutional Debates

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

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

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

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

52. Mark Twain's Native American Problem

51. Greater Hartford's West Indian Diaspora

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

49. The Professor's Secret Life

48. Mid-century Modern in Connecticut

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

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

45. Trouble in the Land of Steady Habits

44. The Amazing Story Behind America's First Cookbook

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

42. Treasures of the Watkinson

41. HAVE ARCHAEOLOGISTS FOUND CONNECTICUT'S JAMESTOWN?

40. Wicked Hartford!

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

39 Witch-Hunting in Connecticut Part 2 The Connecticut Trials

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

38. Talkin' About the 9/11 Generation

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

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

35. Bagel Beach and Jewish Vacationers at the CT Shore

34. Caroline Ferriday Inspires a Bestseller

33. WORLD WAR I REENACTORS TELL ALL

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

31. The NEW Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

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

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

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

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

28. Connecticut in WWI: Letters from the Front

27. Sam Colt Mines the West

26. Catharine Beecher Educates the West

25. On to Mexico! The Connecticut National Guard

24. THE GERMAN INVASION OF CONNECTICUT IN WORLD WAR I

23. The Great American Road Trip with New Haven Museum

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

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

20. HOLIDAY EPISODE 1 - SOUP AND STORIES

19. CONNECTICUT INNOVATES

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

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

16 DRINKING IN HISTORY AT THE NOAH WEBSTER HOUSE

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

14. BRADLEY FIELD AND EUGENE BRADLEY

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

12. GREAT FINDS! – INSIDE AND OUT

11. WALLACE NUTTING AND THE WEBB DEANE STEVENS MUSEUM

10. POETRY AND PATRIOTS IN STONINGTON & SHACK ATTACK!

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

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

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

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

6. IRISH EYES, AND VOTING AND PROTESTING

5. WHAT MAKES CONNECTICUT CONNECTICUT

4: CONNECTICUT CLOCKS AND AMERICAN WORDS

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

2: ICONIC BRANDS / AUDOBON BIRD CALL / TOASTER?

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