Overview: Connecticut, 1818 - 1865
By Bruce Fraser

Period Surveys of Selected Persons
and Events in Connecticut History
By James P. Walsh

Persons: (Alphabetical Order)

> Henry Barnard (1811 - 1900)
> Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810 - 1891)
> William Alfred Buckingham (1804 - 1875)
> Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley (1803 - 1872)
> Elihu Burritt (1810 - 1879)
> Horace Bushnell (1802 - 1876)
> Charles Goodyear (1800 - 1860)
> Samuel Joseph May (1797 - 1871)
> James W. C. Pennington (1809 - 1870)
> Lydia Howard Sigourney (1791 - 1865)
> Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
> Gideon Welles (1802 - 1878)

Events: (Chronological Order)

> The American School for the Deaf
> The Rise of a Two-Party System
> The Prudence Crandall Affair
> The Amistad Case
> The Transportation Revolution in Connecticut
> The Rise of Industry
> The Coming of the Irish
> Connecticut's Soldiers in the Civil War
> The Homefront in the Civil War

Table of Contents

> Connecticut to 1763
> Connecticut 1763 to 1818
< Connecticut 1818 to 1865
> Connecticut 1865 to 1929
> Connecticut since 1929
> Connecticut Politics and Government
> Topical Surveys

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