Welcome to TODAY IN CONNECTICUT HISTORY, a collaboration between the Office of the State Historian and Connecticut Humanities, with support from the Sue B. Hart Foundation.

Your source for a daily dose of Connecticut history!

Every weekday for the next twelve months, you’ll hear a 30 second teaser describing a big/amazing/wonderful/important event in Connecticut history on WNPR.  We’ll be publishing a matching post here on todayincthistory.com every day of the year!  Our blog posts will feature more detail and historical context about that day’s featured event, along with vivid imagery and a list Further Reading links and resources for those who want to delve even deeper into Connecticut history.

Do you have a favorite event in Connecticut history that you’d like us to feature in an upcoming post?  Let us know by visiting the “Submit An Event” page!  You can also use the Search feature, located at the bottom of every page on the site, to search for specific dates, names, or topics.  (Keep in mind that we’re just getting started, so if you can’t find any search results for a specific date, that just means we haven’t gotten to it yet! We’ll have an entry for every day of the year by this time in 2019, so don’t forget to bookmark this site and come back often!