Sample articles from past issues: SUMMER 2005 • Making Their Presence Known • What's a Puritan? • Enfield's Shaker Legacy • Faith Congregational Church SPRING 2005 • The Horseless Era Arrives • Creative License, or Fundamental Fact? • The Sky's the Limit • A Century of Connecticut Inventions 2004 NOV/DEC/JAN 2005 • Daniel Wadsworth and the Hudson River School • The Enigma of Wallace Stevens • Lunch with Monet AUG/SEP/OCT 2004 • The Education of Ella Grasso • Ancient Burying Ground • Politics of Change: Mayor vs. Manager MAY/JUN/JUL 2004 • Miracle on Capital Avenue • Hartford Labor Militants Fight the Spanish Civil War • A piece of silk tells of the richly textured fabric of mill town life. FEB/MAR/APR 2004 • Hospital Rock • A well-stocked saddlebag for the doctor on horseback. 2003 NOV/DEC/JAN 2004 • A War Contested • "If You Don't Need It, DON'T BUY IT." • Manufacturing for the War Effort • Fighting for Freedom Summer 2003 • An Art School Forged in the Gilded Age • Audacious Alliances • Sophia Woodhouse's Grass Bonnets SPRING 2003 • Hartford's Motion Picture Palaces • A Connecticut Yankee Doodle Dandy • The Hartford Dark Blues WINTER 2003 • A Tale of Two Cities: The Rise and Fall of Public Housing • The Last 18th-Century House on Main Street • Francis Goodwin II's reflections on the wild and wooly three-day opening of the Bulkeley Bridge. FALL 2002 • A River Runs Under It: A Hog River History • Tobacco Valley: Puerto Rican Farm Workers in Connecticut • A "Tomitude"

FALL 2005
VOLUME 3 / NUMBER 4
IN THIS ISSUE:
     Liberty & Justice for All

  General Washington Strikes a
Revolutionary Alliance
 Abe Lincoln's Overlooked Hartford Speech
 Society Women Jailed for the Vote
 The Red Scare Sweeps Connecticut

On the cover:
Procession of the Wide-Awake Club down Main Street, Hartford, July 26, 1860. Historians credit (as did Lincoln himself) the Wide Awakes, started in Hartford, with helping Lincoln win the presidency.
The Museum of American Political Life, University of Hartford.

Contents
pg 7	From the Publisher:
pg 8	Letters, etc.
pg 12	Setting the Watch Fires of Liberty. By Mark Jones and Nancy O. Albert
pg 20	The "Conference" State. By Ann Harrison and Mary Donohue
pg 26	Glimpses of Lincoln's Brilliance. By Gene Leach
pg 32	Stamping Out the Reds. By Jeffrey J. White
pg 36	re: Collections Freedom fighter John Brown figures prominently in a new exhibition. By Rehema Barber
pg 38	Destinations Nathan Hale Homestead celebrates our state hero's 50th birthday. By Rebecca Taber-Conover Farmington's stops on the Underground Railroad. By Barbara Donahue
pg 42	Soapbox Archives A day at the movies in 1930s Hartford spells freedom for a young Walter E. Smith.
pg 44	Afterword Barn Again! on view in Windsor; where to get your 2006 Hartford hertitage calendar; the 2005 inductees to The Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame; and more...

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