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Lunch and Learn – Revolutionary Women Writers

April 7 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Free

Virtual Presentation!

During the Revolution, Connecticut women left a trove of written materials – letters, diaries, recipes, journals, poems, and account books. Through them, we can see their cares and interests and how the Revolution affected their daily lives – sometimes in subtle ways and sometimes profound. Yet all of them used writing to create meaning and connection in a deeply unsettled time.

Please join us as Dr. Marie McDaniel contextualizes several written materials from the Connecticut Museum’s American Revolution collection.  Dr. McDaniel was the 2025 Project Scholar for of the American Revolution Papers Digitization Project at the Connecticut Museum.

This virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link.

Questions? Contact Jen Busa, Public Programs Coordinator at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org.

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About the speaker: Dr. Marie McDaniel is the chair of the History Department at Southern Connecticut State University and a historian of Early American religious and gender history. Her first monograph We Shall Not Differ in Heaven: Community in Colonial Philadelphia is forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan Press. Her current monograph is on ministers who were accused of sexual indiscretions in the colonial period. Prof. McDaniel lives in New Haven with her husband, two kids, and two cats.

Image: Prudence Punderson (Rossiter), Chapbook/journal with drawings, ca. 1770, Punderson Family Papers, 1751-1889, MS Punderson, Box 1, Folder 7, Connecticut Museum collection.

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