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SUMMARY:Virtual Presentation - Balancing Memory and History: Inside the 9/11 Memorial & Museum
DESCRIPTION:This year marks the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. At the 9/11 Memorial & Museum in New York City\, memorializing and educating about that day and its aftermath remains as resonant as ever. The institution draws millions of visitors each year – from individuals directly impacted by 9/11 to an entire generation with no lived memory of the attacks. Connecting with such diverse audiences requires constant thought about how history is conveyed\, memory is maintained\, and stories are shared. \nJoin us virtually as Noah Rauch\, Senior Vice President\, Education & Public Programs\, provides a behind-the-scenes look at the institution’s development and design\, the inherent complexity of conveying such a challenging history\, and how the stories\, themes\, and legacy of the attacks continue to be shared in this milestone year with audiences from around the world. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link. \nQuestions? Contact Jen Busa\, Public Programs Coordinator at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nGet Free Tickets\n  \nAbout the speaker: Noah Rauch is Senior Vice President for Education & Public Programs at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum\, where he oversees the Museum’s educational\, interpretive\, public\, and professional programs. He has worked on the project since 2010 and was a senior member of the team that conceived\, planned\, and implemented the inaugural education and interpretive programming for the institution. Previously\, Rauch managed grants for the Center for Informal Learning and Schools at the Exploratorium in San Francisco\, and worked in the education departments at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. He received an Ed.M. in Arts-in-Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University. \nImage: Courtesy of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/balancing-memory-and-history/
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CATEGORIES:Adult Programs,online programming
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SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED! Lunch and Learn - Lydia Sigourney: Unsung Mother of American Literature
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nPlease note that this Lunch and Learn will take place on a Thursday! \nWho was Lydia Sigourney? Why is she not more well known among generations of Hartford residents and other readers? Come learn more about how Hartford’s own Lydia Sigourney helped transform American culture in the early 19th-century. \nUsing items from the Connecticut Museum’s collection\, Professor Mary Louise Kete and Professor Elizabeth Petrino will introduce you to Sigourney’s central role as an American poet\, educator\, and rights activist and to the Lydia Sigourney Digital Archive Project. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link. \nQuestions? Contact Jen Busa\, Public Programs Coordinator at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nGET FREE TICKETS\n  \nThank you to our series sponsors Camille and Gregory F. Servodidio! \nFor information on how to request specific accommodations\, including ASL interpretation\, please visit our Accessibility at the Museum page. \nAbout the speakers: \nMary Louise Kete is Chair of the English Department at the University of Vermont where she also teaches and studies 19th-century American literature and culture. She and Elizabeth Petrino have co-edited Lydia Sigourney: Critical Essays and Cultural Views (U of Massachusetts Press\, 2018) and a special issue on Sigourney for the journal ESQ. Her publications focus on the contributions of American women to the major cultural movements of the long 19th-century. \nElizabeth Petrino is Director of Liberal Studies in the Associate Degree Program at Fairfield Bellarmine and Professor of English at Fairfield University\, Fairfield\, CT. She and Mary Louise Kete have co-edited Lydia Sigourney: Critical Essays and Cultural Views (U of Massachusetts Press\, 2018). Her articles on Sigourney explore a range of topics including gift book culture\, correspondence\, deaf education\, and the environment and have appeared in Studies in American Humor\, Legacy\, ESQ\, and ISLE. \nCurrently\, Mary Louise and Elizabeth are working on developing a Sigourney digital archive. \nImage:  Lydia Sigourney\, Painted by Francis Alexander\, 1828. 2005.125.1 Connecticut Museum collection.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-lydia-sigourney-unsung-mother-of-american-literature/
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Diverging Paths from Lebanon\, Connecticut: Native Americans and the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nFrom 1754 to 1770 Native Americans from across the Northeast travelled to Lebanon\, Connecticut as students in Moor’s Indian Charity School. This diverse cohort of Native youths would go on to play pivotal roles in the American Revolution\, and their experiences in Connecticut gave them connections and information that would inform their decision making and shape their perceptions of the war. These students would take on many attitudes towards the war\, with some siding with Britain and others with the United States\, while others remained vocally neutral.  \nPlease join us for a virtual presentation by Yusuf Mansoor as he explores written material from the Connecticut Museum’s American Revolution collection.  Yusuf spent time at the Museum this past summer as the Project Scholar for the Connecticut Museum’s American Revolution Papers Digitization Project.  This 3-year project is funded by a federal earmark awarded in 2023.   \nThis 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. \nGET TICKETS\n  \nThank you to our series sponsors Camille and Gregory F. Servodidio! \nAbout the Speaker:  Yusuf Mansoor is a PhD candidate at University of Connecticut and Project Scholar for the American Revolution Papers Digitization Project for Summer 2026. His research focuses on the importance of slavery in shaping Native American perceptions of the Atlantic World in the seventeenth century. He reads against archival grains to tell the histories of underrepresented people and communities. Originally from Connecticut\, Mansoor received his BA from George Washington University in 2018 and his MA from William and Mary in 2020. His work has been supported by the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture\, the Massachusetts Historical Society\, the Society of Colonial Wars\, and the American Philosophical Society.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-diverging-paths/
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - American Preacher: The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nLong before social media\, Connecticut native Lorenzo Dow (1777-1834) mastered the art of getting people’s attention. An itinerant preacher known as “Crazy Dow\,” he spent three decades roaming the United States and Britain\, preaching\, publishing\, provoking audiences\, and building one of the first truly national celebrity followings in American history. \nJoin us as Professor Seth Perry examines how Dow built his fame and asks what his remarkable career can teach us about religion\, celebrity\, and the origins of a very American style of public influence that continues to shape the nation today. \nThis 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. \nGET TICKETS\nThank you to our series sponsors Camille and Gregory F. Servodidio! \n  \nAbout the Speaker:  Seth Perry is Associate Professor of Religion in America at Princeton University. His first book\, Bible Culture and Authority in the Early United States (Princeton University Press\, 2018) explores the performative\, rhetorical\, and material aspects of bible-based authority in early-national America. His work has appeared in Church History\, Early American Studies\, the Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, the William and Mary Quarterly\, Slate\, and many other outlets. He teaches courses on religion in early America\, theory and method in the study of religion\, “scripture” as a genre\, and Satan. His second book\, American Preacher: The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow\, will be published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in November. \nTo purchase a copy of Seth’s upcoming book\, American Preacher: The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow\, click here. \nImage: Book cover\, American Preacher: The Life and Times of the Eccentric Lorenzo Dow
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-american-preacher/
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