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• May 2025 Grants eNews: $15M in emergency funding for humanities – Mellon Foundation Challenge, how are recent policy changes impacting the arts? National Pulse Survey, 2025 Annual Conference for CT League of Museums, and more.
• April 2025 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: NEH funding cuts threaten the future of Connecticut’s digital history resources – information on what this means and what you can do
• April 2025 Grants eNews: NEH funding cuts, Museum Makeover Awards announced, Two Lights for Tomorrow, and more
• March 2025 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: CT’s Revolutionary War legal pirates, thornless roses, spring training baseball in Wallingford, blue laws, voter literacy tests, and more fascinating history articles.
• March 2025 Teach It eNews: Activities to support to 2025 National History Day theme, Rights and Responsibilities in History. Plus, National Poetry Month articles and a call to civics educators to share your projects!
• March 2025 Grants eNews: New quick grant awardees, 3/16 deadline for America 250 | CT Conference, NEMA call for proposals, more. 
• March 2025 America 250 | CT eNews: Last chance to register for America 250 | CT conference, Two Lights for Tomorrow commemoration and day of service, America’s Field Trip contest.
• February 2025 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: New article on the explosion of a Bridgeport church, Women’s History Month articles, call for stories.
• February 2025 Grants eNews: Job opening, upcoming conferences and workshops for 250th, digital humanities, NPS grant opportunity, grantee spotlights.
• February 2025 America 250 | CT eNews: March conference registration open, 250th planning workshop, Two Lights for Tomorrow service project, affiliate information, and more.
• January 2025 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Bridgeport’s Larry Kramer and HIV/AIDS activism; looking forward to Black History Month with Middletown’s Beman Triangle and the Underground Railroad in CT; call for CT History Day judges; paid internship for Digital Humanities intern.
• January 2025 Teach It eNews: New grade 3 activity, Uncovering the Stories of Colchester through its Building; looking forward to Black History Month with high school, grade 8 activities on the Old Willimantic Cemetery and Hartford activist Mary Townsend.
• January 2025 Grants eNews: Cultural Fund Survey, Grant Awardees, America 250 | CT Call for Proposals, Upcoming Conferences, Grantee Spotlights.
• December 2024 Grants eNews: Call for proposals for America 250 | CT Conference, latest Quick Grant awardees, advocacy resources online, AASLH nominations open, Museum Makeover and Educational Impact webinar recordings, and grantee spotlight on New Haven Chinese Cultural Cooperative.
• December 2024 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Year in Review – top articles, plus winter wonderland articles on CT ice skating and Christmas cards.
• December 2024 Teach It eNews: New activities on U.S. refugee policy post-Vietnam War (high school) and rediscovering a New Haven activist, engineer, and entrepreneur (grade 4). Plus, Year in Review top activities, welcome to a new staffer, the CT Digital Humanities Conference, and more.
• December 2024 America 250 | CT eNews: Proposal deadline for 2025 conference is January 15; next Affiliate deadline is December 8; save the date for March 21 conference; 2025 Commission meeting dates scheduled.
• November 2024 Grants eNews: Museum Makeover, AEP6 Calculator, 12/4 Educational Impact Advocacy Webinar, NEH & NPS Preservation Grants, Grantee Spotlights
• October 2024 America 250 | CT eNews: planning meetings and proposals due for March America 250 | CT conference;  Pentatonix fundraiser at Mohegan Sun; affiliate applications due November 10; upcoming Commission meetings.
• October 2024 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: ConnecticutHistory.org goes open access, Connecticut residents featured for LGBTQ History Month, America 250 | CT content, History Day 2025 Resource Guide.
• September 2o24 Grants eNews: Economic impact webinar 10/17, NEH grant assistance available, CTH is hiring Finance Director, historic preservation course, new cultural sustainability grant, archival description webinars, more.
• September 2024 America 250 CT eNews: America’s Field Trip contest for students grades 3-12 asks, “What does America mean to you?” plus next Commission meeting October 16, local commissions forming, and affiliate program still accepting applications.
• September 2024 Teach It eNews: New activities – Cape Verdean Life and Influence in Connecticut (high school) and Our Town’s Claim to Fame (grades 3 and 4). Plus National Hispanic Heritage Month activities, 2025 CT History Day Resource Guide, and an immigration Primary Source Gallery.
• September 2024 Grants eNews: New Quick Grants and NEH Awards, Disaster Response and Prep Info, CT History Day 2025 Theme, America 250 | CT Affiliate Program, Grantee Spotlights: Fairfield Museum and History Center, New England Civil War Museum, Connecticut Democracy Center, Kulturally LIT.
• August 2024 America 250 CT eNews: Now accepting applications for 250th Affiliate Organizations, deadline Sept. 29; Welcoming Wider Audiences planning guide available to share.
• August 2024 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Back-to-school edition featuring articles on Child Labor vs. Schooling: 19th-Century Naugatuck, Gallaudet’s Vision Advances Deaf Education, Back-to-School Activities in Teach It CT, plus Call for America 250th Content, Jonathan Trumbull’s Lebanon War Office, Middletown’s Arrawanna Bridge.
• August 2024 Grants eNews: Invite Legislators to Your Museum 8.14 Webinar, CLM Awards of Merit, AASLH 250th Handbook, Grantee Spotlights.
• July 2024 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Banner Lodge, a vacation playground for an excluded population; the summer colony at Fenwick; call for content for ConnecticutHistory.org; job opening for Digital Humanities Education Manager; more.
• July 2024 Teach It eNews: Two high school activities, Summer Eats; WWI Home Front Primary Source Gallery; job opening for Digital Humanities Education Manager.
• July 2024 Grants eNews: Key Grants Changes, CTH Indigenous Values Statement, Granting Evaluations, Supporting Arts Grants Open, Grantee Spotlights
• July 2024 America 250 CT eNews: Upcoming Commission meetings, site visits, new event calendar, local commission contacts.
• June 2024 Grants eNews: NEH Chair Shelly Lowe in CT June 29, AASLH Sponsorships & Fellowships, AAM Museum Social Impact, grantee spotlights on New Haven Museum, Elizabeth Park Conservancy, and Friends of the Janet Carlson Calvert Library.
• May 2024 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: New articles on the Green Book in CT plus Redding Encampment and Putnam Memorial Park; Preservation Month articles on the Henry Whitfield House and Keeler Tavern; and articles on CT’s Asian American and Pacific Islander residents in the Civil War and at Gillette Castle.
• May 2024 Teach It eNews: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Jewish American Heritage Month activities for grade 8 and high school, investigating taxes and community service in CT activity for grade 3, Civil War primary source gallery.
• May 2024 Grants eNews: CT League of Museums and Digital Humanities conferences, advocacy tip, grantee spotlights on Arts Council of Greater New Haven, Housatonic Museum of Art, Yale Peabody Museum, Elm Shakespeare Company.
• April 2024 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: the Orrin Freeman House and the Spirit of ’76; Woodstock’s Roseland Cottage; Jewish Heritage Month: Jewish farming communities in CT in the 19th and 20th centuries, tradition and transformation in Hartford’s Jewish community; call for proposals for CT Digital Humanities Conference.
• April 2024 Grants eNews: Cultural Census data stories, CT League of Museums Conference, Sen. Murphy funding webinar, NEH funding opportunity, legislative advocacy tip, grantee spotlights on American Mural Project, CT Storytelling Center, NICE Norwalk.
• March 2024 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Abigail Hinman: Heroine of the American Revolution or Legend?; Spring Training Baseball Comes to Wallingford; The Park Movement in Hartford; Harkness Memorial Park Offers a Glimpse into Early 20th Century Wealth; Nicholas Grillo and his Thornless Rose.
• March 2024 Teach It eNews: Women’s History Month activities including Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb: A Role Model in STEM and Higher Education for high school and New London’s Role in American Independence for grades 5 and 8.
• March 2024 Grants eNews: A new data story on the anticipated impact of elimination of the CT Cultural Fund on the cultural sector, a demographics and accessibility survey, info on the American Association for State and Local History Collections Camp, and grantee spotlights on the Northeast Open Educational Resources Summit, New Haven Symphony Orchestra‘s series on the Harlem and New Haven Renaissance, and TheaterWorks Hartford.
• February 2024 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Women’s History Month profiles on Maria Sánchez, State Representative and Community Advocate and Colonel Ruth A. Lucas, Literary Advocate; The Wearing of the Green: 19th Century Prints of Irish Subjects by Hartford’s Kellogg Brothers; Fighting Sons of Erin: Connecticut’s Irish Regiment in the Civil War, and more.
• February 2024 Grants eNews: Museum advocacy listening session and new advocacy checklist, Declaring Freedom Conference, strategic planning webinars, grantee spotlights on Pequot Library, Florence Griswold Museum, and Windham Region Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

• January 2024 Teach It eNews: New grade 3 activity, Role-Playing a CT Legislator; new field trip funding for K-5; Black History Month activities for grades 8 and 3; primary source gallery on slavery and abolition.
• January 2024 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Black History in CT special issue: Black activism, writers, and art; fighting for freedom; and historic preservation.
• January 2024 Grants eNews: Museum-Goers survey webinar, security grants, Collections Assessment deadline extended, grantee spotlights on ARTFARM, La Grua Center, and The Yellow Farmhouse.

• December 2023 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: New articles – “Middletown’s Beman Triangle: A Testament to Black Freedom and Resilience,” “Thomas Short – Connecticut’s First Official Printer,” “Hebron’s Josephine Sophia (White) Griffing and a Vision for Post-Emancipation America,” “Rosa Ponselle: Meriden’s Famous Musical Daughter” and more!
• December 2023 Teach It eNews: New grade 3 activity Snapshots; judges needed for History Day; primary source gallery on immigration; and our Year in Review top activities!
• December 2023 Grants eNews: Collections Assessment Grants open, CT Cultural Fund deadline and survey, new CTH funding priorities, new CTH intellectual property policy, new data story on CT’s diverse cultural organizations, grant spotlight on Thames River Heritage Park Foundation and Norwalk Historical Society 1824 Project.
• November 2023 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: New articles: John Warner Barber’s Engravings Chronicle Connecticut History, Connecticut Issues Same-Sex Marriage Licenses for the First Time. Plus, articles on Native American Heritage Month and National Aviation History Month.
• November Teach It eNews: Grades 3, 4, and high school activities for Native American Heritage Month, primary source gallery on geography, and we are looking for people to contribute activities to Teach It.
• November 2023 Grants eNews: CTH Annual Report online, Partnership Grants renewed, CT Cultural Fund deadlines, AASLH survey, new funding opportunities, grantee spotlights.
• October 2023 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Mickey Mouse, witchcraft and Halloween pranks, LGBTQ+ History Month, and the societies of Yale University.
• October 2023 Teach It eNews: New grade 3 activity – How Innovation Shaped Connecticut’s History, plus high school activities on LGBTQ+ History Month, primary source gallery on slavery and abolition.
• October 2023 Grants eNews: “Artists Respond” state grants open, NEH and grant writing webinar recordings online, grant spotlights on Best Video Film & Cultural Center: Into the Afroverse, Arthur Miller Symposium, Anna Audette exhibit at Florence Griswold Museum.
• September 2023 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Don’t-miss articles include: CT’s Youngest City, Parachutist Snagged in Mid-Air, Burning Benedict Arnold in Effigy, Hispanic Heritage Focus on Rep. Maria Sánchez, Electric Boat from Trials to WW2 Sub Leadership, Black Loyalist Refugees from the Burning of Fairfield, Women’s Education in CT.
• September 2023 Teach It eNews: Hispanic Heritage Month activities for high school on 1970s bilingual education in Hartford and Puerto Rican farm worker migration to CT, plus new grade 3 activity on CT’s Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
• September 2023 Grants eNews: NEH webinars, grant writing workshop, new grants toolskit, spotlight on grantees Hartford Art School’s Minoo Emami exhibit, Fairfield University Art Museum’s Arthur Szyk: Artist and Soldier for Human Rights exhibition, and CCSU’s Hispanic Heritage Month programming.
• August 2023 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: New History Day resource guide, Who Knew? history shorts, “Girl Pilot” Jenson, Bernstein and the 1964 CT Education Amendment, Osbornedale Farms and Frances Kellogg, Children of the Reconcentrados.
• August 2023 Teach It eNews: Four new grades 8 and high school activities (Amos Beman; Enfield’s Shaker Community; CT’s Complicity in Slavery; Anti-Racist Allies and Accomplices in CT History), WWI source gallery, History Day resources.
• August 2023 Grants eNews: Impact of defunding Cultural Fund survey, Intro to CTH Grants webinar, Grants Spotlights on Carousel Museum lecture series, cARTie arts and deafness project, Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra’s Identity Through Music program.
• August 2023 America 250 CT eNews: Site visits, upcoming Commission meetings.
• July 2023 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: How red onions built Wethersfield, photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, Cornfield Point, Jewish farming communities, Disability Pride Month.
• July 2023 Teach It eNews: New grade 3, 8, and high school activities (Collecting Tomorrow’s History, African Americans in the American Revolution, The Role of Enslaved People in Founding CT, Understanding the Census), Civil War Primary Source Gallery.
• July 2023 Grants eNews: Summer at the Museum listings, Cultural Fund final reports open, Grants Spotlight on Southern Connecticut State University Archaeology Field School at Henry Whitfield State Museum. 
• July 2023 America 250 CT eNews: Update from the Commission.
• June 2023 Grants eNews: Applications open for Summer at the Museum grants, ACT Roadmap Update, America 250th CT mailing list, Grants Spotlight on International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Poetry in the Park, Harford Bonanza.
• June 2023 Donor Appeal: Poll show vast majority of CT residents attend and support cultural organizations, funding needed.
• June 2023 ConnecticutHistory.org eNews: Wethersfield bonnet maker, pioneer in medicine and transgender history, LGBTQ+ Pride Month, New Write For Us page, CT History Day winner.
• June 2023 Teach It eNews: New grade 8 activities (Black Burials in the Old Willimantic Cemetery, New Haven Black Governor William Lanson), Social Studies Conference, Business & Industry Primary Source Gallery.