CIVICS 101: Connecticut's Fiscal Crisis

History and Politics in the Land of Steady Habits.

Connecticut residents certainly face fiscal and economic challenges today, but history shows that we have been here before and overcome adversity. Connecticut’s economic crisis of the early nineteenth century spurred a transformation that produced the state’s first modern constitution (1818), tax reforms and economic stimulus programs. We will explore what parallels this episode in Connecticut’s past may have for our political and economic situation today.

Presenter: Donald Rogers earned his PhD in U.S. History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has specialized in U.S. legal-constitutional development. He is a retired adjunct lecturer at Central Connecticut State University and other institutions.