Shoeleather History Project

Nation-building at the point of a Gatling Gun June 19th marks several significant incidents in Connecticut history.

The 1986–1990 Colt Firearms strike in Hartford, Connecticut, was a landmark four-year labor dispute where 1,000+ UAW region 9a, Local 376 members fought for safe work, better wages and against unfair labor practices It is considered one of the longest str…

Jack Smith, former UConn student and Marine veteran, throws his medals at the U.S.

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The hotel ballroom floor was covered with turf.

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She was known as the “Mayor of Columbia Gardens.”

The future that never was— one illustration that expressed the dream of Hartford’s movers and shakers WE will never be able to measure the financial waste, false hopes and human pain caused by relentless race and class discrimination in Hartford.

Never a fair fight Ernie Fiorillo and his daughter Patricia Fiorillo were informed on April 5, 1980 that their 65-year-old building was slated for demolition.

With three million homeless people nationwide in 1988, in the land of Ronald Reagan’s criminal domestic policies, and a housing vacancy rate of almost zero in Hartford, People’s Housing Action forms to sharpen public focus on this basic human right.

Walking into the King-Davis union building in Hartford CT, the first thing you see is a very large photo of Dr.

A working man, known only as John, ended his life in 1907 on Arch Street in New Britain.

I visited my father’s grave at the veterans cemetery in Windsor the other day.

Each Labor Day, leaders of Connecticut industry scramble to assure us that their employees are all valued and respected.

In July 2020, the Harriet Beecher Stowe Prize was awarded to Albert Woodfox for his book Solitary.