Connecticut Digital Archive @ctda_official
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The Freeze is Coming! Starting Monday May 1, no new content can be added or altered on the CTDA website. This will allow time for the content to be migrated to our new site!
Check out our newest story on Medium! Explore some past school yearbooks at the link in our bio.
Check out our newest story from the Pandemic Project series! Learn about William J. Huebner and his life at the link in our bio.
Check out our new Instagram! After some technical difficulties, we have created a new Instagram account. Follow the link below to stay up-to-date on all of our exciting projects and events. We can't wait to start sharing! instagram.com/ctda_official/
Happy #MemberMonday featuring Hartford Public High School Museum & Archive! Check out them out at their website hphs1638.wordpress.com. Go to the link in our bio to see their CTDA collection!
Happy #MemberMonday featuring Noah Webster House/West Hartford Historical Society! Check out them out at @NoahWebHouse or their website noahwebsterhouse.org. Go to the link in our bio to see their CTDA collection!
Happy belated National Cow Appreciation Day! Check out this image and more from the Alsop's Wood Ford Farm collection from @AFPLCT at the link in our bio!
Happy #MemberMonday featuring the Meriden Public Library! Check out them out at their website meridenlibrary.org. Go to the link in our bio to see their CTDA collection!
This week is National Be Nice to Jersey Week, featuring some postcards of libraries in New Jersey from @SCSU collection. Check out more of the collection at the link in our bio!
Legendary businessman & connoisseur of the spectacular, P. T. Barnum was born #OTD in 1810. Barnum’s canny contributions to the circus reflected his understanding of the titillating power of “the alien,” writes @JosephBottum & Justin L. Blessinger: tinyurl.com/2p9h769w
June 29th is National Camera Day! This day celebrates the marvel of the camera, giving us the ability to capture memories in a second. This photograph features the Hartford Camera Club, provided by the Connecticut Historical Society. Check out the link in our bio to learn more!
Check out our newest story from the Connecticut Unsolved series! Part 4 is about the Legend of the Ledge Light. Learn all about it at the link in our bio.
Happy #MemberMonday featuring the Mark Twain Library! Check out them out at @MTLRedding or their website marktwainlibrary.org. Go to the link in our bio to see their CTDA collection!
Happy First Day of Summer from the CTDA! Go to the link in our bio to check out this beautiful art piece entitled "Summer Landscape" from the Florence Griswold Museum.
Happy #MemberMonday featuring the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford! Check out them out at @jhshartford or their website jhsgh.org. Go to the link in our bio to see their CTDA collection!
Introducing two of our Lightning Talks Speakers, Elisa Graydon and Michelle Williams! Elisa and Michelle are from the Coast Guard Academy. They will be speaking about Digitizing the SPAR Notebooks. For more information, check out the link in our bio!
Introducing one of our Lightning Talks Speakers, Brooke Gemmell! Brooke is the Design Technologist at Greenhouse Studios here at UConn. She will be speaking about the Harvest Headache. For more information, check out the link in our bio!
Introducing one of our Lightning Talks Speakers, Anna Newman! Anna is the Digital Projects Manager at the Connecticut State Library. She will be speaking about the Digitizing the Newspapers of Connecticut. For more information, check out the link in our bio!
Introducing one of our Lightning Talks Speakers, Molly Woods! Molly is the Registrar at the Connecticut Historical Society. She will be speaking about the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Project. For more information, check out the link in our bio!
The CTDA Open Meeting will feature 5 breakout session to choose from! These breakout sessions are surrounded around topics suggested by members. We are excited to hear all of your thoughts! For more information and to see the full schedule of events, visit the link in our bio!
Connecticut History @CT_History
6K Followers 1K Following Your home for stories about the people, traditions, innovations, and events that make up the rich history of the Nutmeg State | A project of @CTHumanities.
Greenhouse Studios @GreenhouseUConn
540 Followers 995 Following Scholarly Communications Design at the University of Connecticut
melanie newport @melanienewport
8K Followers 3K Following Concerned citizen and historian in CT. AAUP member. THIS IS MY JAIL, @pennpress. series editor @uchicagopress. views do not reflect those of my employer!!!!
Connecticut's Old Sta.. @CTOldStateHouse
3K Followers 2K Following The Old State House is a registered National Landmark and home to the Greater Hartford Information Center.
CT Humanities @CTHumanities
4K Followers 1K Following CT Humanities promotes civic engagement and funds programs and projects that connect people to the history, literature, and culture of Connecticut.
David Ouimette @dto02002
471 Followers 1K Following
Hartford Public Libra.. @HPLCT
5K Followers 2K Following Through a mix of robust resources, HPL provides spark for your conversation, power for your passion, courage for your soul and food for your mind.
UConn Library @uconnlibrary
1K Followers 783 Following The official site of the University of Connecticut Library.
Tom Scheinfeldt @foun.. @foundhistory
6K Followers 860 Following Associate Professor of Digital Humanities / Director of #DH and @GreenhouseUConn. Formerly @chnm. Now @[email protected] on Mastodon.
Mark Healey @HealeyParera
13K Followers 5K Following Head @UConnHistory | Views on here do not reflect views of employer | https://t.co/lbjUtvxzT6…
American Historical A.. @AHAhistorians
61K Followers 3K Following The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. https://t.co/UFbKcbY7Na
Manuela Wagner @manuelawag
1K Followers 1K Following Researching intercultural dialogue, emergent bilingualism, intellectual humility, humor. Opinions are my own.
CT History Day @CTHistoryDay
584 Followers 436 Following Connecticut History Day is one of 58 affiliate programs of @NationalHistory led by @CTOldStateHouse
Creative Commons @creativecommons
522K Followers 2K Following The nonprofit behind the licenses & tools the world uses to share 🌍 🖼 “Open Is Beautiful” by Tanya Korniichuk (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Tom Breen @TJBreen
4K Followers 3K Following Now: UConn news director. Then: reporter. Tweets are my own, retweets are not. It’s “UConn,” not “UCONN,” please, I beg of you.
Jeana Declet @jean_decl
52 Followers 5K Following
Yun Veitinger @VeitingerY39689
61 Followers 5K Following
Bridgeport Library @BportLibrary
2K Followers 1K Following The Bridgeport Public Library serves as the principal public library for the City of Bridgeport, the largest municipality in Connecticut.
Connecticut Real Esta.. @RealConnecticut
349 Followers 3K Following Connecticut Real Estate: Buy, Sell, Invest, Lease or a Career. Call or Text Steve Schappert 203-994-3950
Joseph @Joseph66647488
408 Followers 4K Following
Braulio @Incognitor
351 Followers 3K Following Librarian, bibliothécaire, Bibliothekar, TIC, 🥋faixa branca BJJ🇧🇷⛩️ 🇯🇵, sk8🛹, surf🏄🏽♂️ homebrewer de https://t.co/9STAcodWrV @swanderers 💚 @atleticos
TDNet Info-Leaders Po.. @LibraryTDNet
370 Followers 5K Following Looking to provide the Information & Library community with content from our Info-Leaders Podcast and interesting updates on TDNet library solutions.
Dr. Dwayne Smith @DrDTopOwl
249 Followers 154 Following Interim President of @SCSU. Proud #FirstGen. Firm believer in the transformative power of #HigherEd.
Sarah Willen @sarahwillen
1K Followers 2K Following anthropologist | writer | mom | @PandemicJourna | @ARCHES_Study | #FightingforDignity (@PennPress) | she/her
connmoca @connmoca
4 Followers 51 Following Contemporary art + Connecticut. R&D phase. Post-industrial, strip mall, metal shed in field? Will keep you posted.
The US Caribbean & FL.. @UFNDNP
717 Followers 583 Following Historic FL, PR, and VI newspapers provided by @uflib, @uprrp, @UVI_edu. Digitized and freely available on @ChronAmLOC thanks to @NEHgov & @librarycongress
UConn Office of Outre.. @UConnEngagement
128 Followers 268 Following The Office of Outreach and Engagement is the Front Door to UConn's talent. We support and advance community engagement in Connecticut. Director: @rosaraudales
Pat O'Malley @pattyomalley11
4 Followers 136 Following
Triple Owl Genealogy .. @NEGenealogist77
2 Followers 578 Following Genealogy Interests: the New England region with emphasis on the south-eastern Massachusetts counties of Plymouth, Barnstable, Bristol, Dukes & Nantucket
Laurie N. Taylor (she.. @laurien
2K Followers 2K Following Associate University Librarian for Collections & Discovery, UConn Library. Kindness counts. Thoughts mine https://t.co/aIzmeUMHcH
UConn Law Library @UConnLawLib
771 Followers 89 Following News and Fascinations from the UConn Law School Library.
Early American Source.. @AmericanSources
1K Followers 687 Following Connecting early American scholars to archives, databases, digitized collections, published sources, and more! #VastEarlyAmerica #twitterstorians
Krista Brogle @klbrogle
162 Followers 409 Following Mother of 2 inquisitive & entertaining boys, current GT teacher, former LMS & ELA teacher, runner, avid gardener, & reader! Check out my Ss @EPSGifted
Julie Yulo-Medeiros (.. @jyulo
292 Followers 1K Following Member Relations Manger for Academic & School Libraries at Connecticut Library Consortium (CLC), School Librarian, Loves to Read, Bake and Run
Queens Memory @QueensMemory
3K Followers 1K Following Queens Memory is a collaborative digital archives program at @qplnyc and @libraryqc aiming to record and preserve contemporary history across Queens.
Southern Connecticut .. @SCSU
9K Followers 467 Following Southern Connecticut State University is a top public regional institution in the heart of New Haven 🦉💙 #LeadingTheWay
IAIS Museum @IAISMuseum
548 Followers 572 Following The Institute For American Indian Studies Museum and Research Center focuses on Native cultures both past and present in Connecticut & across the Americas.
CLOCKSS @CLOCKSSArchive
2K Followers 4K Following CLOCKSS is a not-for-profit, sustainable & geographically distributed dark archive to ensure the long-term survival of digital scholarly publications.
Antigone56 @babarabaster
3 Followers 398 Following
Kate Murray @fileformatology
3K Followers 2K Following Digital preservation, file formats, all things #FADGI at the Library of Congress. All (good/bad) opinions my own. RT ≠ endorsement. @[email protected]
CCSU Social Studies P.. @CCSUSocStud
146 Followers 308 Following Secondary teacher prep, a community of people dedicated to education and history as part of 7-12 social studies. Good learning fun, hot topics in rich context!!
Chris Wolak @chriswolak
2K Followers 1K Following Reader, writer, podcaster (@BookCougars). Academic librarian. Blogging about books, libraries, and history. 🏳️🌈
SHU_HistoryDept @SHU_HistoryDept
249 Followers 1K Following Sacred Heart University History Department || Explore, Discover, Learn, Become! Study abroad in Dingle, Ireland! ☘️
Elisabeth Genest @ElisabethGen15
73 Followers 411 Following Technicienne aux archives numériques au Centre canadien d'architecture et candidate à la maîtrise en sciences de l'information à l'EBSI.
Public Art in Connect.. @PublicArtCT
131 Followers 140 Following Public Art & Artists in Connecticut #PublicArtCT #ArtistsCT April is #EcoArt in honor of Earth Day Citizen Art Project: Tag us w/ Public Art from your CT town.
Teach It @TeachIt_CT
176 Followers 499 Following Teach It provides inquiry-based activities for teachers to use to teach Connecticut social studies and reinforce state frameworks | A project of @CTHumanities
PreservationConnectic.. @PreservationCT
1K Followers 1K Following
Damien Aubel @damienaubel
311 Followers 5K Following
Nicole Tardiff @NicoleTardiff3
56 Followers 1K Following
Coalition for Network.. @cni_org
4K Followers 3K Following CNI supports the use of information technology to advance scholarly communication and intellectual productivity. Most tweets by CNI's Paige Pope.
Stafford DTC @StaffordDTC
80 Followers 317 Following We are the Democratic Town Committee in Stafford, CT! Follow us for updates on our local politics!
UAL Archives @UAL_Archives
3K Followers 1K Following Our archive specialises in film making, art, history of printing and graphic design. We hold the archives of Stanley Kubrick, Tom Eckersley, Her Noise & more.
The Filson Historical.. @FilsonHistory
1K Followers 773 Following Collecting, preserving, and sharing the history and culture of Kentucky & the Ohio Valley since 1884.
Digital Preservation .. @dpoe_network
1K Followers 2K Following Supporting digital preservation education and outreach in U.S. libraries, archives & museums. Born at @librarycongress, based at @prattischool & @NYUMIAP
Jewish Historical Soc.. @jhshartford
241 Followers 108 Following Dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing Jewish history across greater Hartford.
Elena Marie Rosario @elmrosario
597 Followers 1K Following she/her/ella. Public historian. Ph.D. Candidate @umichgradschool. 2022 @NASEMFordFellow. Studying labor migration & settlement in 20th century Hartford.
Olwyn Lee @olwyn_lee
27 Followers 419 Following
Committee to Re-Elect.. @SlimTambourine
203 Followers 3K Following they did something together appropriately and well
UConn @UConn
110K Followers 652 Following The University of Connecticut is home to more than 32,000 students, 1,500 faculty, 255,000 proud alumni, and a handsome husky named Jonathan. #UConnNation
Connecticut History @CT_History
6K Followers 1K Following Your home for stories about the people, traditions, innovations, and events that make up the rich history of the Nutmeg State | A project of @CTHumanities.
Greenhouse Studios @GreenhouseUConn
540 Followers 995 Following Scholarly Communications Design at the University of Connecticut
melanie newport @melanienewport
8K Followers 3K Following Concerned citizen and historian in CT. AAUP member. THIS IS MY JAIL, @pennpress. series editor @uchicagopress. views do not reflect those of my employer!!!!
Connecticut's Old Sta.. @CTOldStateHouse
3K Followers 2K Following The Old State House is a registered National Landmark and home to the Greater Hartford Information Center.
US National Archives @USNatArchives
253K Followers 333 Following The nation's record keeper. Visit our new exhibit, #ArchivesPowerAndLight: https://t.co/qnv9FJFJtZ Policies: https://t.co/KHNUTjM0m1
Library of Congress @librarycongress
1.2M Followers 12 Following Official account of the world’s largest library. Explore collections & plan a visit. All Library accounts: https://t.co/KMH2LPXfZv
CT Humanities @CTHumanities
4K Followers 1K Following CT Humanities promotes civic engagement and funds programs and projects that connect people to the history, literature, and culture of Connecticut.
CT Dept of Education @EducateCT
11K Followers 2K Following Official account of the Connecticut State Department of Education. Follow our Commissioner! @CharleneRTEdu
Smithsonian Libraries.. @SILibraries
81K Followers 925 Following A system of 21 libraries and an institutional archives (@SmithsonianArch) that support @Smithsonian & researchers worldwide. Legal: https://t.co/KPNY7JC8mf
LOCMaps @LOCMaps
36K Followers 90 Following Official account of the @LibraryCongress Geography & Map Division, the largest map library in the world. All Library accounts: https://t.co/T907knoXYf
Hartford Public Libra.. @HPLCT
5K Followers 2K Following Through a mix of robust resources, HPL provides spark for your conversation, power for your passion, courage for your soul and food for your mind.
UConn Library @uconnlibrary
1K Followers 783 Following The official site of the University of Connecticut Library.
Tom Scheinfeldt @foun.. @foundhistory
6K Followers 860 Following Associate Professor of Digital Humanities / Director of #DH and @GreenhouseUConn. Formerly @chnm. Now @[email protected] on Mastodon.
Mark Healey @HealeyParera
13K Followers 5K Following Head @UConnHistory | Views on here do not reflect views of employer | https://t.co/lbjUtvxzT6…
American Historical A.. @AHAhistorians
61K Followers 3K Following The American Historical Association is the largest professional organization serving historians in all fields and all professions. https://t.co/UFbKcbY7Na
UConn Huskies @UConnHuskies
221K Followers 549 Following The official Twitter account of UConn Athletics #BleedBlue
ctmuseum @ctmuseum
1K Followers 385 Following The Museum of Connecticut History collects artifacts and shares stories about Connecticut's military, political and industrial past.
CSCU @CSCUnews
1K Followers 476 Following The 17 Connecticut State Colleges & Universities (CSCU) offer students an affordable, accessible opportunity to further their education or career training.
CT History Day @CTHistoryDay
584 Followers 436 Following Connecticut History Day is one of 58 affiliate programs of @NationalHistory led by @CTOldStateHouse
Westport Library @WestportLibrary
4K Followers 813 Following Westport, Connecticut's library, community hub, and gathering space since 1908; renovated in 2019. We'll see you at the Library!
University of Hartfor.. @UofHartford
8K Followers 443 Following Official Twitter of the University of Hartford. #UHart provides a distinctive educational experience across seven schools/colleges to a diverse student body.
UConn Law Library @UConnLawLib
771 Followers 89 Following News and Fascinations from the UConn Law School Library.
HistoryAtState @HistoryAtState
12K Followers 455 Following Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, U.S. Department of State | Comments welcome at [email protected] Terms of Use: https://t.co/kILaPE4Giu
SoNo Branch Library @sonolibrary
489 Followers 387 Following The South Norwalk (SoNo) Branch of the Norwalk Public Library is dedicated to free and equal access to information...for our diverse community.
Noah Webster House @NoahWebHouse
2K Followers 2K Following The birthplace of the Noah Webster, Jr......author, educator, lexicographer, patriot.....and the father of American language.
Friends Of The Meride.. @fotmpl
9 Followers 0 Following Enriching our community through programs at the Meriden Public Library.
American School Deaf @ASD_1817
967 Followers 221 Following Founded in 1817, the American School for the Deaf was the first permanent school for the deaf in the United States.
Acton Public Library @Actonlibrary
697 Followers 616 Following The Public Library of Old Saybrook, CT
@wtfPDF @wtfpdf
376 Followers 0 Following Celebrating the majesty, the mystery, the comedy and the catastrophe of PDFs....mostly the latter two. Moved: https://t.co/IhGQ8yo1yX
HAHR21 @HAHR21
3K Followers 267 Following Founded in 1918, the Hispanic American Historical Review publishes vital work in Latin American history across thematic and methodological specializations.
Land Grab CT @LandGrabCT
103 Followers 37 Following An interactive website assessing UConn’s history as a land-grant institution through the expropriation of Indigenous lands. Launch Date: Oct 11, 2021
Digital Preservation .. @dpoe_network
1K Followers 2K Following Supporting digital preservation education and outreach in U.S. libraries, archives & museums. Born at @librarycongress, based at @prattischool & @NYUMIAP
Stanley-Whitman House @SWHMuseum
306 Followers 390 Following A museum of Early American history located in the heart of historic Farmington village.
Norwalk Library CT @NorwalkLibCT
4K Followers 2K Following #NPL is dedicated to free & equal access to information, knowledge, and independent learning as well as to the joy of reading for our diverse community
Jewish Historical Soc.. @jhshartford
241 Followers 108 Following Dedicated to collecting, preserving, and sharing Jewish history across greater Hartford.
Walk New Haven @walkingnewhaven
250 Followers 251 Following A project of the Ethnic Heritage Center, Walk New Haven celebrates our diverse cultural heritage through multimedia tours of New Haven's historic neighborhoods
Simon Tanner 🐝 @SimonTanner
7K Followers 4K Following Digital Cultural Heritage Professor @kingsdh Head of Humanities @kingsartshums Book: https://t.co/nSYA3sZU2D #Beekeeping Own opinions
Digital Newberry @DigitalNewberry
1K Followers 1K Following Digital collections, resources, and crowdsourcing projects from the Newberry Library. Inactive account--find us at https://t.co/i7K9DaX9De 👋
LibraryJuice Academy @LibJuiceAcademy
3K Followers 2K Following Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development workshops for librarians & library staff, focusing on practical topics to build skills.
Milner Library Specia.. @ISUMilnerSPC
751 Followers 688 Following A visual spectacle to behold, Special Collections at Illinois State U. has a huge Circus/Allied Arts collection, along with many other rare and fine materials.
CT Digital Newspaper .. @CTDigNewspaper
186 Followers 194 Following Digitizing newspapers, preserving Connecticut history. All content available to the public on @ChronAmLOC Made possible by @NEHgov & @librarycongress
CT State Library | Di.. @csldld
730 Followers 889 Following CT State Library, Division of Library Development. Providing education, collection support, funding, and leadership to libraries across Connecticut.
Sarah Willen @sarahwillen
1K Followers 2K Following anthropologist | writer | mom | @PandemicJourna | @ARCHES_Study | #FightingforDignity (@PennPress) | she/her
Family Tree Magazine @FamilyTreeMag
35K Followers 908 Following Providing inspiration and instruction to genealogy enthusiasts for over 20 years.
Facundo Martín @ffddmartin
347 Followers 1K Following Ecología Política I Historia Ambiental I Geografía Agraria. @CONICETDialoga. @UNCUYO. Fellow @AvHStiftung (2024-2025)
Lauren Cronan @archive__this
112 Followers 397 Following VCUarts alum, BFA Photo/Film All opinions belong to me.
Library Journal @LibraryJournal
246K Followers 405 Following Library views, news, and book reviews from LJ staffers
kayla_hg @kaylahgrant
18 Followers 137 Following Black, Disabled, Poly & Pan woman doing her bestest
Pedagogy & American L.. @PedagogyAmLitSt
3K Followers 554 Following Pedagogy & American Literary Studies (PALS) is a collaborative website focused on pedagogy, American literature, & more. Tweets by @GregSpecter.
Laura same handle on .. @laurabrarian
3K Followers 1K Following Head of Digital Scholarly Engagement @DartmouthLib -- crossword puzzle constructor & publisher of @InkubatorXWords -- avatar by @TheJenya
Claire Boardman @boardman_claire
3K Followers 5K Following People/Places; Spatial/Cultural Informatics; Arch/Heritage Sci; DH & Design PhD WIP. Views own. Trustee: @DunollieOban. Advisor: @GoodOrgCIC (she/her)
Ceilyn Boyd @boydcm_
220 Followers 856 Following Team @dataverseorg @IQSS | doctoral candidate in data studies @SimmonsSLIS
Greenwich Historical .. @GrnHistCt
630 Followers 161 Following We preserve & interpret the important history of Greenwich, CT & operate the National Historic Landmark Bush-Holley House, a museum, café, library & archives.
Tim Sherratt @wragge
8K Followers 4K Following I have left this hell site and you should too. Find me at: @[email protected]
Dr Karin Glasemann @kringln
2K Followers 830 Following #OpenGlam enthusiast & Dpt Head of Curatorial Team @ArkDesC, The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design
@[email protected].. @bc_butler
2K Followers 2K Following Copyright lawyer, Dir. Info. Policy @UVALibrary, fair use consultant, former IP clinician, music obsessive, runner.
Jason Oliver Chang @chinotronic
2K Followers 2K Following UConn Associate Professor | Ethnic Studies | Maritime History | Latin American Studies | Historian | Co-worker in the kingdom of culture
Derby Neck Library @DerbyNeckLib
320 Followers 385 Following Public Library endowed by Francis Osborne Kellogg, hosting a variety of events and services.
UConn Humanities @UCHI_UConn
2K Followers 452 Following The UConn Humanities Institute supports scholarly advances in the humanities that enrich an understanding of the human condition. Founding member @NEHumanities
UConn Engineering @UConnEngineer
6K Followers 2K Following Science news from around the globe, UConn Engineering updates from around the state!
JHSNJ @JHSNJ1
22 Followers 87 Following Twitter feed of the Jewish Historical Society of North Jersey Open: MWF 11:00-3:00
Lindsey Steward-Goldb.. @Steward2Lindsey
544 Followers 637 Following Public Historian; Museum Educator; https://t.co/MquJqKRNAo
eeohalloran @eeohalloran
385 Followers 557 Following Erin's into open source software, innovation, sustainability planning, libraries, public speaking. she / her / hers
All of us at DPLA wish a very Happy #Hanukkah to everyone celebrating this week. This image of a linoleum block print by Elbert Weinberg depicting a man holding a #menorah is from @HPLCT and @ctda_official via dp.la
Through "My Town, My Story" @uconnlibrary is helping preserve Connecticut's past by collaborating with libraries across the state to build digital archives of local histories. today.uconn.edu/2022/12/uconn-…
Thanks to a grant from @CTHumanities, the @ctda_official will be building a program to help gather the stories of towns across Connecticut. Reach out if you are interested in learning more!
Through "My Town, My Story" @uconnlibrary is helping preserve Connecticut's past by collaborating with libraries across the state to build digital archives of local histories. today.uconn.edu/2022/12/uconn-…
We "respect" our fellow history nerds.
We’re happy you got your Taylor Swift tickets but where is this energy when we’re trying to sign up people for library cards
We don’t know anything more than you do, but we got to use a big sticky note so there’s that. 🗒
It's #electionDay! The women of Litchfield first cast ballots in the election of 1920. A woman, Adelaide Deming, was on the ballot & elected to the school board. We wonder how many decided to #vote for the prohibition candidate in the national #election. #ExploreYourArchive
How are you being an engaged citizen this weekend? The answer might be easier than you think!
Congrats to Rachel Mathew from Timothy Edwards Middle School in South Windsor who won the Discovery or Exploration in History Award. Read her junior paper "From Peru to Yale and back again: The Journey of the Peruvian Machu Picchu Artifacts" here: docs.google.com/document/d/17L…
We’re so excited to see what our faculty and students will be digging up this summer!
2022 field season is kicking!
This week is National Be Nice to Jersey Week, featuring some postcards of libraries in New Jersey from @SCSU collection. Check out more of the collection at the link in our bio!
Legendary businessman & connoisseur of the spectacular, P. T. Barnum was born #OTD in 1810. Barnum’s canny contributions to the circus reflected his understanding of the titillating power of “the alien,” writes @JosephBottum & Justin L. Blessinger: tinyurl.com/2p9h769w
We are grateful to be working with @ctda_official to make our hundreds of oral histories available to the public!
Happy #MemberMonday featuring the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Hartford! Check out them out at @jhshartford or their website jhsgh.org. Go to the link in our bio to see their CTDA collection!
#CTDA Conference! KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Kathy Hermes, @CCSU, will present, “Forgotten Voices of the Revolutionary War: People of Color and the Redding Encampment, 1778-1779.” @ctda_official @CTExplored #twitterstorians avonctlibrary.info/event/ctda-con…
YES! @ctda_official will be in person this year led by Dr. Katherine Hermes' keynote - 'Forgotten Voices of the Revolutionary War: People of Color and the Redding Encampment, 1778-1779'. Come check out amazing digital initiatives happening across CT campsite.bio/connecticutdig…
The CTDA is hosting its first in-person meeting since 2019! Come join the CTDA at the Avon Free Public Library to learn more about the CTDA and listen to featured speakers! It is free to attend and open to all. Visit the link in our bio to learn more and register!
A wearable history of progressive cases, featuring @uconnlibrary's Pins and Button Open Community Collection. bit.ly/3py7Vqc
It's true...our button collection is way cool. You can check them out by going to ctdigitalarchive.org and search for 'button' in the @UConn collection. Warning: you can get lost for hours but it's totally worth it. Thanks for the shout out @JSTOR @UConnArchives @ctda_official
A wearable history of progressive cases, featuring @uconnlibrary's Pins and Button Open Community Collection. bit.ly/3py7Vqc
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