The Bridgeport History Center updates our new and noteworthy page on a regular basis!\u00a0 Check back to see what we’ve added and you can come in and use.\u00a0 This page was last updated on April 22, 2022.<\/p>\n
New Oral Histories<\/span> New Special Collections<\/span> New Photographs New Digital Collections<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bridgeport History Center updates our new and noteworthy page on a regular basis!\u00a0 Check back to see what we’ve added and you can come in and use.\u00a0 This page was last updated on April 22, 2022. New Oral Histories Bridgeport and New Haven Puerto Rican Oral Histories, 2023-2024 Fifth year Yale University doctoral candidate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":14470,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-center-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14465"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15725,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14465\/revisions\/15725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bportlibrary.org\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBridgeport and New Haven Puerto Rican Oral Histories, 2023-2024<\/a>
\nFifth year Yale University doctoral candidate Amanda Rivera conducts oral histories to facilitate her research on the bilingual education movement in Bridgeport as led by Puerto Ricans in the 1970s. Rivera interviews community members about this topic in both Bridgeport and New Haven from 2023-2024<\/a>. The interviews she conducted are now part of the History Center holdings as an oral history collection.<\/p>\n
\nBHC has long held biographical newspaper clipping files.\u00a0 Now researchers can view the list of names<\/a> included in this substantial collection.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>BHC has been continuing to add photographs to the Connecticut Digital Archive<\/a>.\u00a0 There are over one thousand images available, with more on the way!\u00a0 Don’t see what you’re looking for?\u00a0 Contact us on our contact form.<\/p>\n
\nBHC has one of the best newspaper clippings collections<\/a> in the state. Explore some of the initial offerings<\/a> from this vast resource.<\/p>\n