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      Readings for Teachers About: Jobs Then and Now

      Child Labor

      Nancy Toney’s Lifetime in Slavery

      Venture Smith Resources

      The Way Connecticut Worked

      Women in the Workplace: From Steno Pool to Factory Floor

      Working in the Whaling Industry

      Readings for Teachers About: CONNECTICUT INVENTS

      Iconic Connecticut Brands

      The Fuller Brush Company

      Pepperidge Farm: Healthful Bread Builds a Business

      SAMPLE STORY: Bigelow Tea–A Connecticut Tea Party

      Electric Boat: Full Speed Into the Nuclear Age

      Timex: Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking

      Orange: PEZ

      Peter Paul’s Path to Sweet Success

      Sikorsky–Still Revolutionary

      Readings for Teachers About: MOVING ACROSS CONNECTICUT

      The Ill-Fated Farmington Canal

      Litchfield’s Fortunes Hitched to the Stagecoach

      Traveling Hartford-Area Turnpikes—Then, Now, or Never? Plans for a beltway around Hartford hit a dead end.

      Full Steam Ahead: Steamboat Travel in Connecticut

      Windsor Locks: Bradley International Airport