Wesleyan University collection of student papers about Middletown, CT

Since 1976, student papers written on historical Middletown-area topics have been donated to Special Collections & Archives. The Student Papers About Middletown Collection featuers graduate and undergraduate papers about the history of Middletown, Connecticut and the surrounding area. Topics include politics, labor, commerce, ethnic and racial groups, women's history, and leisure. Papers for which authors have granted permission for general online access are available to everyone via WesScholar. Papers for which we do not have that permission are available online only to the Wesleyan community. All papers are available in paper form for use in the SC&A Reading Room. Digitization of these papers was funded in part by Wesleyan’s Service Learning Center.

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"Weighed, counted and measured:" manufacturers in Middletown, 1860-1880
"Who Can Blot Out the North Star?": The Bemans — Four Generations of Black Abolitionists
A Biography of Richard Alsop the 3rd of Middletown, Connecticut, born 1789 died May 29, 1842
A Comparative Study of the Ethnic Identity of Italian-Americans in Middletown, Connecticut Before and After World War II
A Constant and Formidable Foe: Joshua Stow and the Fight for Religious Freedom in Connecticut
A Demographic Profile of Early 19th Century Middletown, Connecticut: A Statistical Analysis
A Flourishing College Will…Build Up a Town: The Twelve Local Trustees of Wesleyan University, 1830 - 1840
A Middletown Italian-American in Show Business: Tony Pastor 1909-1969
A Narrative History of Prohibition in Middletown, Connecticut
A Preliminary Study of the Brownstone Quarrying Industry in the Town of Portland, Connecticut
A Profile of Two Irish Families: The Larkins and the Linskeys
A Prospographical Study of State Legislators from Middletown, 1860-1910
A Speculative Study of the Middlesex Theater
A Survey of Employment Opportunities Offered in Middletown Newspapers 1850 - 1890
A method of ascertaining the identity of small and medium-size farmers
A social analysis of blacks in Middletown, 1850 to 1880: as uncovered from the manuscript census
A study in depth of Italian wedding photos of Middletown families
A survey of Middletown newspapers in the 1820s
American Social History: A Study of the Rich in the City of Middletown in 1860
Americanization of Polish and Italian immigrants in Middletown
Blacks in Middletown Around the 1970's
Class Conflict in Middletown: the Remington-Rand Strike of 1936
Connecticut Valley Hospital: A Case Study
Crime in Middletown and Middlesex County in 1880 - 1910
Different Shades of Green: A study of Irish-American Institutions in Middletown Connecticut, 1880-1915
Elizabeth Bigelow
From Labor Leader to Police Chief: A Biography of Charles Anderson, 1912-1936
From the Greek-American Fruit and Candy Company, 1901 to the Middlesex Fruitery, 1981: the assimilation of the Greek-American family
George Aylward as Middletown Police Chief
Hartford's Italians

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