By Alex Palmieri and Lynandro Simmons, SCSU Journalism students Alex Palmieri and Lynandro Simmons, journalism students at Southern Connecticut State University, reported this story as part of Journalism Capstone coursework on World War I. Twenty Connecticut residents were aboard the British passenger ship Lusitania when German submarines sank it in […]

Connecticut Residents Among Those Killed on the Lusitania


By Melissa Nunez, SCSU Journalism student Melissa Nunez, a journalism student at Southern Connecticut State University, reported this story as part of Journalism Capstone coursework on World War I. A portrait of Guy Hedlund from 1918. Photo credit, the Connecticut State Library. Filmmaker and Portland, Connecticut native Guy Hedlund could […]

Connecticut Filmmaker Guy Hedlund Preserved War History


By Emily Plavcan, SCSU Journalism student Emily Plavcan, a journalism student at Southern Connecticut State University, reported this story as part of Journalism Capstone coursework on World War I. After 25 years into his life in New Haven, Conn., Italian native James G. Ceriani packed up his small cafe, and […]

Connecticut’s Italian Immigrants Fought With U.S. In World War I