Jeremy Brecher

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Public History: Connecticut

From 1989 to 2001 I served as Humanities Scholar-in-Residence at Connecticut Public Television and Radio, a position supported by the Connecticut Humanities Council.  I wrote the scripts for the documentaries The Roots of Roe, Schools in Black and White, Rust Valley, The Amistad Revolt, Electronic Road Film, Brass City Music, and Dance on the Wind, the last two of which I co-produced.

As Humanities Scholar-in-Residence I developed and supervised the documentary series The Connecticut Experience, produced by the Connecticut Humanities Council in collaboration with Connecticut Public Television. The series included more than twenty documentaries on Connecticut topics, of those the following nineteen have been digitized:

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Schools in Black and White, 1991 Between Boston and New York, 1992 Rust Valley, 1995
Puerto Rican Passages, 1995 Colt: Legend and Legacy, 1997 From Here to There, 1998
African Americans in Connecticut: The Colonial Era to The Civil War, 1998 African American in Connecticut: The Civil War to Civil Rights, 1998 Schools Good Enough for All, 2000
As We Tell Our Stories: Native Americans in Connecticut, 2001 Home Front: Connecticut During WWII, 2001 Connecticut’s Tobacco Valley, 2001
Connecticut and the Sea, 2000 The Green, 2001 Connecticut and Its Cities: Challenge of Renewal, Part I, 2002
Connecticut and Its Cities: Challenge of Renewal, Part II, 2002 Connecticut and Its Cities: Three Centuries of Change, Part I, 2002 East of the River, 2004
The Rise and Fall of Newgate Prison, 2004

Not yet digitized titles include:

  • THE ROOTS OF ROE, 1994 documentary history of contraception and abortion, broadcast nationally by PBS in 1997.
  • THE AMISTAD REVOLT, 1995 documentary on the “Amistad incident.”

I was also producer, writer, and host of Connecticut Public Radio’s Remembering Connecticut, which broadcast more than 80 radio programs on a wide variety of Connecticut history topics, of those the following 53 have been digitized:

Remembering Connecticut

Season One

Episode One: The Glacier and Its Effects

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Episode Two: Ancient Indigenous Settlements

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Episode Three: The Pequot War

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Episode Four: Connecticut’s Ecology Transformed

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Episode Five: Seventeenth Century Witchcraft

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Episode Six: The Rumpus at Waterbury

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Episode Seven: A People on the Move: The Great Migration Out of Connecticut 1760-1850

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Episode Eight: The Yankee Character

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Episode Nine: The Yankee Peddlers

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Episode Ten: James Mars: A Slave in Connecticut

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Episode Eleven: Prudence Crandall

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Episode Twelve: The Amistad Affair

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Episode Thirteen: James Mars

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Episode Fourteen: The Civil War

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Episode Fifteen: Catharine Beecher and Nineteenth Century Domesticity

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Episode Sixteen: Mark Twain in Hartford

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Episode Seventeen: The Anti-Irish Crusade

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Episode Eighteen: Where Did the Fish Go?

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Episode Nineteen: The Knights of Labor

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Episode Twenty: The French-Canadians In Connecticut

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Episode Twenty-one: Home Work

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Episode Twenty-two: Immigrant Mutual Aid

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Episode Twenty-three: Chain Migration and Connecticut’s Ethnic Communities

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Episode Twenty-four: Salmon Rock

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Episode Twenty-five: Connecticut Women in Industry During World War II

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Episode Twenty-six: Connecticut’s Lost Industrial Crafts

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Episode Twenty-seven: Connecticut’s War at Home

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Episode Twenty-eight: The Fight for Women’s Suffrage

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Episode Twenty-nine: J. Henry Roraback: Republican Boss

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Episode Thirty: John M. Bailey: The Power Broker

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Season Two

Episode One: Italians in Connecticut

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Episode Two: Railroads

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Episode Three: 350th Anniversary of New Haven

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Episode Four: Putting Down Roots in Connecticut

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Episode Five: Equal Rights: Voting in Connecticut

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Episode Six: Re-Apportionment: Working Towards Equal Rights in Connecticut

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Episode Seven: From Citizen Legislator to Legislative Modernization

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Episode Eight: From Big Bosses to Responsible Party Government

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Episode Nine: Revolutionizing Government: Moving Towards a Constitutional Convention

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Episode Ten: Canaan Mountain

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Episode Eleven: Scatechoke Persons relation to Settlers in Their Area

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Episode Twelve: Advent of the Civil Defense Advisory Committee

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Episode Thirteen: Not for Publication The Mass Burial Annex for Hartford: Appendix A

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Episode Fourteen: Fire Departments: Professional and Volunteer

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Episode Fifteen: Great Mountain Forest

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Episode Sixteen: Botanical Traditions

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Episode Seventeen: The Self-Sufficient Farmer

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Episode Eighteen: Milk

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Episode Nineteen: Ice

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Episode Twenty: Chinese in Connecticut

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Episode Twenty-one: Immigrant Protest

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Episode Twenty-two: Seth Thomas

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Episode Twenty-three: Concern: A Party

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ABOUT JEREMY BRECHER

11You and I may not know each other, but I suspect there are some problems that we share -- problems like climate change, war, and injustice. For half a century I have been participating in and writing about social movements that address those problems. The purpose of this website is to share what I've learned. I hope it provides something of use to you in addressing our common problems.

For the record, I am the author of more than a dozen books on labor and social movements. I have written and/or produced more than twenty video documentaries. I have participated in movements for nuclear disarmament, civil rights, peace in Vietnam, international labor rights, global economic justice, accountability for war crimes, climate protection, and many others.

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