Report: Connecticut Dedicates $1M to Digitize Historical Documents

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At a time when many states dispute whether accurate history should be taught in schools, Connecticut Historical Society is celebrating $1 million in federal funding to digitize its documents dating back to the colonial and Revolutionary War era.

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The digitization project will primarily focus on items from the colonial and Revolutionary era. Among items that will be digitized is one of the few remaining existing copies of the first edition of The Connecticut Courant, from Oct. 29, 1764; a letter from Gen. George Washington to military provisioner Jeremiah Wadsworth of Hartford listing items needed for the Army; and the diary of state hero Nathan Hale, whose last entry was three weeks before he was executed in 1776.

Other items highlighted during the news conference were correspondence pertaining to state heroine Prudence Crandall, to World War II and to the Civil Rights Movement, including items about Mandon Walker, a state resident jailed in Georgia for her Civil Rights activities

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