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Grating the Nutmeg

Connecticut is a small state with big stories. GTN episodes include top-flight historians, compelling first-person stories and new voices in Connecticut history. Executive Producers Mary Donohue, Walt... Read more

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60. SPECIAL CPTV Audio Documentary: BARNUM'S CONNECTICUT

60. SPECIAL CPTV Audio Documentary: BARNUM'S CONNECTICUT

THE P T BARNUM YOU NEVER KNEW   In this special Connecticut Public Television audio documentary, we tell the story almos... Read more

2 Nov 2018

45mins

Ranked #2

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

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

   In part 3 of our Special Witch-Hunting in Connecticut series, Brenda Miller, Executive Director of the Hartford Histo... Read more

26 Oct 2017

1hr 40mins

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

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

In this installment of GTN, Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Historical Society takes a walk through the museum's ar... Read more

1 Aug 2019

18mins

Ranked #4

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

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

      In this special 3 Part series on Witch-Hunting in Connecticut, we investigate the surprising story of witchcraft i... Read more

26 Oct 2017

40mins

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

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

In this Gate-leg Table interview with state historian Walt Woodward, transportation historian Richard DeLuca takes us on... Read more

16 Jul 2019

1hr 12mins

Ranked #6

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28. Connecticut in WWI: Letters from the Front

28. Connecticut in WWI: Letters from the Front

With equal doses of wit and bravado, hear the stories of New Britain’s Stanley Works employees serving in France with Wo... Read more

4 Apr 2017

31mins

Ranked #7

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39 Witch-Hunting in Connecticut Part 2 The Connecticut Trials

39 Witch-Hunting in Connecticut Part 2 The Connecticut Trials

           In part two of our Special Series Witch-Hunting in Connecticut, you'll hear the sobering tale of Connecticut'... Read more

26 Oct 2017

42mins

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27. Sam Colt Mines the West

27. Sam Colt Mines the West

Central Connecticut State University history professor Leah Glaser retells the story of Sam Colt’s investment in the Son... Read more

22 Mar 2017

38mins

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65. Norwalk's Village Creek Ahead of Its Time

65. Norwalk's Village Creek Ahead of Its Time

After World War II, one Connecticut community made a conscious effort to reject racial segregation. The founders of Vill... Read more

1 Feb 2019

25mins

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49. The Professor’s Secret Life

49. The Professor’s Secret Life

     All the time Joel Kupperman was a soft spoken, distinguished philosophy professor at the University of Connecticut,... Read more

15 May 2018

48mins

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

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

It’s not very often that a historian interviews a poet for a history podcast, but in this episode state historian Walt W... Read more

15 Apr 2019

45mins

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

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

In our first episode for 2020, state historian Walt Woodward interviews author and historian Tom Shachtman talks about h... Read more

2 Jan 2020

58mins

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

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

How did Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemons use scrapbooks to fight unscrupulous publishers who reprinted his work without pay... Read more

18 Nov 2019

50mins

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52. Mark Twain’s Native American Problem

52. Mark Twain’s Native American Problem

In this episode recorded at the Mark Twain House in Hartford, Twain scholar and University of St. Joseph Professor of En... Read more

1 Jul 2018

39mins

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45. Trouble in the Land of Steady Habits

45. Trouble in the Land of Steady Habits

     On the 200th anniversary of the creation of the state Constitution of 1818, we remember one of Connecticut's least ... Read more

15 Mar 2018

48mins

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

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

This episode, the fourth in our 6-part series commemorating the Constitution of 1818, explores one of the main accomplis... Read more

15 Oct 2018

40mins

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35. Bagel Beach and Jewish Vacationers at the CT Shore

35. Bagel Beach and Jewish Vacationers at the CT Shore

Listen to a recent book talk by author Elizabeth Poliner whose  novel As Close to Us as Breathing takes us  to the 1940’... Read more

16 Aug 2017

31mins

Ranked #18

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

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

Hops, Beer and Hartford’s Union Brewery Strike Beer--that great cold drink! In 1902, Hartford’s brewers went on strike... Read more

27 Jun 2017

54mins

Ranked #19

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

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

     In an unforgettable interview, historian Barbara Beeching describes the creation of a black middle class in Hartfor... Read more

16 Jul 2018

1hr 4mins

Ranked #20

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77. The Delicious History of Pizza in New Haven

77. The Delicious History of Pizza in New Haven

Food historian and author of Pizza in New Haven Colin M. Caplin tells State Historian Walt Woodward and co-host Betsy Go... Read more

18 Aug 2019

51mins

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