October 2025

Travel in Time with Dan Blog Episode 22: Eli Whitney, CT

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The Crazy, Contradictory Legacy of Eli Whitney: How One Man Helped Start—and End—the Civil War Travel in Time with Dan: Reflections from the Eli Whitney Museum Greetings, history travelers! Dan Blanchard here, checking in from a truly marvelous and historic site: the Eli Whitney Museum in Hampton, Connecticut. As you walk the property, you can […]

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Travel in Time with Dan Blog Episode 21: The Hartford Courant, Hartford, CT

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From New Haven Outset to Hartford Gain   The story of the Courant begins not in Hartford, but with a slight twist of fate involving Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. A man named Thomas Green was the publisher of a newspaper in New Haven, Connecticut (possibly the New Haven Gazette). Benjamin Franklin wanted to secure a

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