Lunch and Learn: Remembering G. Fox & Co.

Virtual

Join us for a virtual overview of the history of the iconic department store, and the story of Beatrice Fox Auerbach, the pioneering businesswoman who led G. Fox & Co. through its golden age.

Free

Lunch and Learn: Indigenous Unfreedom and Race Making in Early New England

Virtual

This virtual presentation by Dr. Joanne Jahnke-Wegner, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will examine how English enslavement of Indigenous peoples during the Pequot and King Philip's Wars contributed to the racialization of Indigenous peoples in early New England.

Free

Ann Petry: Life and Legacy

Virtual

Learn about one of Connecticut's most unique and powerful literary voices.

Free

Lunch and Learn: Discover Connecticut’s Black Antebellum Communities

Virtual

Pre-Civil War Black communities provided free and enslaved people in Connecticut with spiritual, economic, social, and personal opportunities that people used to build rich, meaningful lives. Join us to learn about a recent project at the Connecticut Museum that aims to bring these lives into focus.

Free

Lunch and Learn: Justices of the Peace and the American Revolution

Virtual

This virtual presentation, by Hannah Farber, is part of a book project on civil litigation in the early American republic, will use surviving justices' dockets to show how different types of magistrates--farmers, ministers, urban merchants, and Patriot enforcers--handled the provision of justice to their neighbors amid Revolutionary disruption.

Free

Lunch and Learn – The Forgotten Chinese Generations

Virtual

Presenter, Irving Moy, will trace the hardships the Chinese had to endure using the example of the Moy Chack Fong, his father. Irving will discuss his father’s immigration story, and the challenges he faced to achieve a better life for himself and his family under exclusion.