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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Indigenous Unfreedom and Race Making in Early New England
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nIn this virtual presentation\, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, Dr. Joanne Jahnke-Wegner\, 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. During the process of enslaving and dispossessing Indigenous peoples\, English colonists combined Atlantic world stereotypes of Indigenous peoples and their own colonial practices in Ireland with cultural\, theological\, military\, and economic discourses to racialize Indigenous peoples in order to justify colonial actions. English colonists created racialized habits of mind about Indigenous peoples that were used to justify continued Indigenous dispossession and marginalization in colonial New England. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Dr. Joanne Jahnke-Wegner is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire\, where she teaches classes on early America\, women and gender\, and race and medicine. She received her PhD from the University of Minnesota and is currently at work on three articles and a book manuscript on captivity\, enslavement\, and race making in early New England. \nImage: Universal Images Group/Getty Images\, Washington Post\, December 20\, 2022
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-indigenous-unfreedom/
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SUMMARY:Ann Petry: Life and Legacy
DESCRIPTION:Born in Old Saybrook in 1908\, Ann Lane Petry shot to public notice in 1947 when her novel\, The Street\, hit the bestseller list. The first Black American woman to sell a million copies of a book\, she shunned fame while building a body of work that included novels\, short stories\, literary criticism\, and children’s books. Her work examined the ways that race\, class\, and gender affected the lives of Black women\, anticipating the critical framework known today as intersectionality.  In this free\, virtual discussion\, Dr. Deborah McDowell and Dr. Ravynn K. Stringfield will explore Petry’s work and legacy.  \nThis event is free! Click here to register. When you do\, you’ll receive the Zoom link in your email confirmation. Questions? Contact Natalie Belanger\, Adult Programs Manager\, at nbelanger@connecticutmuseum.org. \n  \n \n About Our Speakers:  \nDr. Deborah McDowell\, a scholar of African American/American literature\, is the Alice Griffin Professor of Literary Studies at the University of Virginia. Her publications include ‘The Changing Same’: Studies in Fiction by African-American Women\, Leaving Pipe Shop: Memories of Kin\, as well as numerous articles\, book chapters\, and scholarly editions. Extensively involved in editorial projects pertaining to the subject of African-American literature\, she founded the African-American Women Writers Series for Beacon Press and served as its editor from 1985-1993. This project oversaw the reissue of fourteen novels by African American women writers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She also served as a period editor for the Norton Anthology of African-American Literature\, now in its third edition; contributing editor to the D. C. Heath Anthology of American Literature\, and co-editor with Arnold Rampersad of Slavery and the Literary Imagination.   \nDr. Ravynn K. Stringfield is an author\, scholar\, and artist. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from William & Mary. Her research focuses on Black women and girls as creators and protagonists of new media narratives that are futuristic\, fantastic and/or digital in nature. Currently\, Dr. Stringfield is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Media Studies in the Rhetoric and Communication Studies Department at the University of Richmond.   
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/ann-petry-life-and-legacy/
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CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Discover Connecticut's Black Antebellum Communities
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nPre-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. The project draws on archival documents\, photos\, artifacts\, and community experts to highlight the experiences of Black communities in Norwich\, Bridgeport\, and Middletown. You’ll also learn how the project team reconstructed the lives of two individuals who lived in Hartford by combining known facts with some creative imagination. Learners of all types will discover something new through these engaging high school resources! \nThis virtual presentation is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \n 
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-black-antebellum/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: John Quincy Adams and the Amistad Affair
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nIn this virtual presentation\, historian Jeffrey A. Denman will discuss John Quincy Adams’ background and experiences in politics beginning with the administration of George Washington. This talk will include the Amistad affair as it pertains to Connecticut\, and John Quincy Adams’ arguments in front of the Supreme Court resulting in the freeing of the captives. Denman will also touch on the evolution of Adams’ thinking and his actions in Congress. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa\, via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Historian Jeffrey A. Denman is the author of John Quincy Adams\, Reluctant Abolitionist. He is the co-author of Greene and Cornwallis: The Pivotal Struggle of the American Revolution\, 1780-1781.  His research focuses primarily on the late eighteenth century and early nineteenth centuries in American history.  Jeff is a graduate of the University of Maine and the University of Connecticut and is a retired teacher of American History and World Geography in the Brookline Public Schools\, Brookline\, Massachusetts. He has also written several articles dealing with various aspects of the American Revolution\, the Civil War\, and World War II in various historical publications. \nTo purchase Jeffrey’s new book\, John Quincy Adams\, Reluctant Abolitionist\, click here. \nImage: A daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams created in March 1843 when he visited the studio of Philip Haas in Washington\, DC.  Courtesy of National Portrait Gallery\, Smithsonian Institution.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-jqa/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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SUMMARY:Short Attention Span Literary Club
DESCRIPTION:Once per month\, we get together to chat about short stories. Anyone can join in\, no commitment required! \nThis month’s story is “I Stand Here Ironing\,” by Tillie Olson. You can find the story here. \nThe club meets online using Zoom. Click here to register. You’ll receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link. \nWe’re offering this program for free\, but if you would like to make a donation to support our public programming\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here! \nQuestions? Contact Natalie Belanger\, Adult Programs Manager\, at nbelanger@connecticutmuseum.org.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/saslc-87/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Club,online programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Justices of the Peace and the American Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nJustices of the peace ruled on colonial Americans’ smallest disputes: an overdue IOU\, a corn crop damaged by swine\, a stolen shirt\, a hurtful public accusation. Then the Revolutionary War came.  Amid the war\, as Americans sorted out their relationships to the “Glorious Cause\,” many of the judges of small causes kept their offices and continued to go about their business. \nThis 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. Hannah recently conducted research at the Connecticut Museum for this project. \nThis virtual presentation is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker: Hannah Farber is an assistant professor of history at Columbia University. She is the author of Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press\, 2021) and a series editor for American Beginnings: 1500-1900 at the University of Chicago Press. \nImage: Burn’s Abridgment\, or the American Justice (Dover\, New Hampshire\, 1792) \n 
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-justices-of-the-peace/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240501T130000
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SUMMARY:Short Attention Span Literary Club
DESCRIPTION:Once per month\, we get together to chat about short stories. Anyone can join in\, no commitment required! \nThis month’s story is “Shingles for the Lord\,” by William Faulkner. You can find the story here. \nThe club meets online using Zoom. Click here to register. You’ll receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link. \nWe’re offering this program for free\, but if you would like to make a donation to support our public programming\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here! \nQuestions? Contact Natalie Belanger\, Adult Programs Manager\, at nbelanger@connecticutmuseum.org.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/saslc-88/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Club,online programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240507T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The Forgotten Chinese Generations
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nAAPI Heritage Month was established to recognize and honor the contributions and influence of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans to the history\, culture\, and achievements of the United States.  However\, the generations of Chinese who first arrived in this country in the 1850s\, who helped build the transcontinental railroads in the 1860s\, who fought in its wars\, and continuing through the 1960s\, were subjected to exclusion laws that denied them opportunities to achieve the “American Dream.” \nPresenter Irving Moy will trace the hardships the Chinese had to endure using the example of 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. \nThis virtual presentation is free and open to the public. Click here to register. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker: Irving Moy is a first-generation Chinese American born in Bridgeport\, Connecticut\, where his parents owned and operated a Chinese hand laundry.  He is the first in his family to graduate from high school and college.  He retired as a manager with the CT Department of Public Health in healthcare regulation. Irving’s passion\, however\, is his reading and study of U.S. history\, especially\, of Abraham Lincoln\, and the Civil War Era.  In July 2008\, Governor M. Jodi Rell appointed him to serve as 1 of 15 members of the Connecticut Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission.  He portrays Corporal Joseph Pierce\, a Chinese\, who enlisted in Company F\, 14th Regiment\, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry\, and fought in the Civil War\, at reenactments and living history events.  He is the author of An American Journey- My Father\, Lincoln\, Joseph Pierce\, and Me\, published in 2009\, the bicentennial year of Lincoln’s birth. \nImage: Objects from Wing Lee Laundry\, 1948-1960. 2023.14.1-.10\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-the-forgotten-chinese-generations/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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SUMMARY:Short Attention Span Literary Club
DESCRIPTION:Once per month\, we get together to chat about short stories. Anyone can join in\, no commitment required! \nThis month’s story is “The Hospital Where” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. You can find the story here. \nThe club meets online using Zoom. Click here to register. You’ll receive a confirmation email containing the Zoom link. \nWe’re offering this program for free\, but if you would like to make a donation to support our public programming\, please click here. Or\, to learn about the benefits of museum membership\, click here! \nQuestions? Contact Natalie Belanger\, Adult Programs Manager\, at nbelanger@connecticutmuseum.org.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/saslc-89/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Book Club,online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:ask_us@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240611T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn: Lyman Eppes - Black Yankee and Adirondack Pioneer
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nAmy Godine’s new book\, The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier (Cornell\, Fall 2023)\, tells the story of a rich abolitionist’s bid to colonize the Adirondack wilderness in 1846 by donating 120\,000 acres to 3\,000 impoverished Black New Yorkers before the Civil War. Gerrit Smith’s land gifts aimed to ease Black access to the ballot in an age when landless Black New Yorkers were disenfranchised. Frederick Douglass and New York’s leading Black reformers promoted Smith’s proposal with zeal. \nWhat does this story have to do with Connecticut? \nJoin us for this virtual presentation\, as Amy Godine traces this Adirondack story back to two key players that have Connecticut roots: Lyman Eppes and John Brown. The militant abolitionist\, John Brown\, born in Torrington\, Connecticut\, was an advocate of Smith’s plan and moved his family to Timbuctoo\, a new Black enclave in the Adirondack woods in 1849. \nAmy Godine will also introduce us to one of Smith’s grantees\, Lyman Eppes\, who was born in Colchester\, Connecticut. Eppes migrated to the Adirondacks with his family in 1849 and became Brown’s close friend and confidante. In his new home\, North Elba\, Eppes co-founded two churches\, a singing school\, and his town’s first library. The Eppes family’s tenure in the region spanned almost a century. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs and Special Events Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker: Publishers Weekly called Amy Godine’s The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier (Cornell\, 2023)\, an “eye-opening…vital contribution to African American history.” From Saratoga Springs\, New York\, Amy Godine has been publishing articles and essays about Adirondack Black\, ethnic\, migratory\, and labor history\, since 1989. \nTo purchase Amy Godine’s The Black Woods: Pursuing Racial Justice on the Adirondack Frontier\, click here. Input discount promo code 09FLYER at check out for 30% off list price. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nGET TICKETS
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lyman-eppes/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Black History,online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - “Anomalous Characters”: The Children of the Loyalists
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nDuring the American Revolution\, wartime loyalties and civilian violence prompted tens of thousands of former colonists to abandon their homes and relocate as refugees to other parts of the British Empire. To cite one\, contemporary refrain\, “The Tories with their brats and wives/Have fled to save their wretched lives.” As the guns quieted and the smoke cleared\, the bitter complaints of the unhappy absentees prolonged the settlement of revolutionary disputes for decades to come. \nWhat would become of the loyalists? Contradictory judicial rulings between Britain and the United States in the aftermath of independence meant adolescent participants in the loyalist exodus retained legal rights to membership within both polities. It was an accident of unsettled disagreements\, and an uneasy affront to the long-standing political ideologies which presumed total allegiance to a single national character\, and no others. Federal directions were slow to respond. Private citizens more often determined what was possible. \nIn this virtual presentation\, Shea Hendry\, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, will discuss this complex period and explore how individuals like William Birdseye Peters and Prudence Punderson\, both children of prominent Connecticut loyalists\, help to reveal the boundaries of the new national divide and its surprising pliancy among the many people who did not yet feel different. \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. \nAbout the Speaker: Shea Hendry is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Her research is focused on the children of loyalist exiles in the “Age of Revolution\,” though she is broadly interested in refugee communities\, national identity\, and transnational exchange. She previously completed her MS in Library Science\, with a concentration in Archive Management\, and her MA in History at Simmons University in Boston\, Massachusetts. \nget free tickets\n  \nImage: Payment ordered by Secretary George Wyllys for confiscated estate\, Connecticut Comptroller’s Office papers\, 1771-1885. Ms 68809\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. \n 
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-children-of-the-loyalists/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241001T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Bound Out: The Spiritual Lives of Freeborn Black Domestic Servants
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nBefore she made history in 1831 as the first United States-born woman of any race to publicly address a mixed audience of men and women\, Maria Wellington Miller Stewart was orphaned and served a term of indenture in a clergyman’s household. The freeborn mixed-race woman of African descent explained that although she “had the seeds of piety and virtue . . . sown in [her] mind\, her “soul thirsted for knowledge.” \nIn this virtual presentation\, Jaimie Crumley\, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, will discuss how what historians have described as the fragility of freedom was made evident through the indenture system in early nineteenth-century Connecticut. For freeborn Black children like Maria Wellington Miller Stewart\, indenture offered a far better life than chattel slavery. Nevertheless\, it normalized subservience to white people and prevented them from attaining an education. This presentation discusses how her childhood as a domestic servant in a clergyman’s household might have influenced Stewart’s later political thought. \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. \nAbout the speaker: Jaimie D. Crumley is an Assistant Professor in the Divisions of Gender Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City\, Utah. She is currently working on a book project called We Will Live: Black Christian Feminists in the Age of Revolutions. We Will Live is about Christian women of African descent’s contributions to the abolitionist movement in New England from 1770 until 1870. \nGet free tickets\n  \nImage: Yerrinton\, James Brown\, and William Lloyd Garrison. “The Liberator.” Newspaper. Boston\, Mass.: William Lloyd Garrison and Isaac Knapp\, Volume 3\, Number 8\, February 3\, 1833\, page 31. Digital Commonwealth\, https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/mc87rp03x (accessed April 24\, 2024).
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-spiritual-lives/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241008T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Authors and Entrepreneurs: Black Self-Publishers in New England
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nBryan Sinche\, Professor of English and department chair at the University of Hartford\, is the author of the new book Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature. The book focuses on 19th century writers who used self-publication to bypass white gatekeepers and editors and share unique stories that address the social\, political\, and economic realities of Black life in the United States. \nJoin us for a virtual presentation\, as Bryan discusses how self-publishers created and sold their books and highlights the stories of two New England self-publishers\, including Hartford’s own James Mars. \nQuestions? Contact Public Programs Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Bryan Sinche is Professor of English and department chair at the University of Hartford. To purchase Bryan’s new book\, Published by the Author: Self-Publication in Nineteenth-Century African American Literature\, click here. \nCredit: James Mars\, Winsted\, photographed by Thomas M. V. Doughty\, ca 1870. 1993.6.0\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nGET FREE TICKETS
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-black-self-publishers/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Black History,online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The Connecticut Yankee Occupation of St. Augustine\, FL\, 1862-1865
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nFrom 1862-1865 the 7th\, 10th\, and 17th Connecticut Volunteer Infantry regiments occupied the “Ancient City” of St. Augustine\, Florida during the American Civil War. Their experiences with African Americans changed throughout the course of the war\, as government policy turned from a conciliatory approach to more stern measures. During this time\, Connecticut soldiers contended with the boredom of occupation duty\, the problem of feeding and sheltering African American refugees\, and the constant threat of guerrilla violence in the surrounding countryside. \nIn this virtual presentation\, Dr. Eric Paul Totten\, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, will discuss the eclectic experiences of the Connecticut Yankees in and around the Ancient City during the American Civil War.  Dr. Totten’s presentation will highlight a few interesting finds from the Connecticut Museum collection. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link. Questions? Contact Public Programs Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Dr. Eric Paul Totten completed his Ph. D. in 2020 at the University of Arkansas where he is currently an Instructor in the Department of History. He is the author of[] [/] “Civil-Military Communities in Conflict: The 1862 Occupation of St. Augustine\, Florida\, and the Politics of Emancipation\,” in G. David Schieffler and Matthew Smith eds. Hundreds of Little Wars: Community\, Conflict\, and the Real Civil War which will be published by LSU Press in 2025. \nImage: Joseph Roswell Hawley\, 1861-1865\, carte-de-visite by Prescott & Gage. 1910.5.1\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nget free tickets
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-connecticut-yankee-occupation/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Black History,Lunch and Learn,online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut\, 1933–42
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nAs a flagship program of the New Deal\, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was one of several federal agencies that turned to the natural and built environment to promote sociocultural homogenization between the First and Second World Wars. \nIn this virtual presentation\, Dr. James Fortuna will investigate the CCC’s role as an agent of national transformation and considers the links between the New Deal’s treatment of the American landscape and its promotion of a new\, more pluralistic national identity.  Dr. Fortuna will also highlight some of his findings within the special collections of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History throughout his time in residence as a 2024 NERFC fellow. \nIn assessing a few specific case studies from around the Nutmeg State\, it will become clear that the Corps acted as a key vehicle of the unifying message that drove the New Deal and its many so-called ‘alphabet agencies’ from the depths of economic depression to a state of preparedness as the country headed toward global war. Accordingly\, this talk considers the Corps’ role in the New Deal’s construction of popular historical consciousness and draws attention to the frequent interactions between a diverse range of urban-born enrollees and rural populations before concluding with a timely discussion of the legacy and ultimate fate of these structures. How\, if at all\, should they be preserved? Whose responsibility is it to decide? What value might they hold in the twenty-first century United States? \nIn previous publications\, Dr. Fortuna has argued that this agency played a more significant socio-cultural role than many historians have realized. His current book project\, tentatively entitled The Civilian Conservation Corps in New England\, 1933–42\, will expand on this idea by tracing the Corps’ impact on everyday Americans from Mystic to Maine. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Get tickets to receive the Zoom link.  Questions? Contact Public Programs Coordinator\, Jen Busa via email at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the Speaker:  Dr. James Fortuna teaches American history at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He is a historian of the American experience with an interest in transatlantic and transpacific people\, places\, and spaces. His research focuses primarily on the twentieth century and is situated at the intersection of cultural and diplomatic history. \nImage: A young man’s opportunity for work\, play\, study & health / Bender; made by Illinois WPA Art Project\, Chicago. United States\, 1941. [Chicago: Illinois WPA Art Project] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/92513367/. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nGET FREE TICKETS
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-the-civilian-conservation-corps/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250211T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Connecticut’s Local Leaders: Creating the State and Economy in the Early Republic
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nLocal leaders have long been studied as managers of daily affairs in their communities\, yet this presentation offers a narrative in which they attain national significance. In this virtual talk\, Elliot Warren illustrates how local magistrates in the 1780s and 1790s influenced the development of political economy—how the state interacts with markets—because of their role in overseeing local economies. As authorities acting in relative isolation from state and federal authorities\, local leaders had ample leeway to shape economic development in the early republic’s most valuable cities and towns. \nElliot’s talk will focus on how local leaders in Connecticut were integral to the development of an ‘American’ political economy. Through the lens of four distinct themes—security\, money\, representation\, and commerce—the talk will highlight the role Connecticut’s local leaders played on a grand scale. The 1780s and 1790s were times of great crisis\, from money scarcity to economic depression and the threat of invasion\, yet the state and federal governments were unable to face these challenges alone. Local leaders were essential participants in the defense of the nation from without and within. Working to protect and promote their communities\, leaders of Connecticut’s towns and cities contributed to the growth of a strong central state\, forever changing the way the American state interacts with the economy. \nElliot Warren\, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, conducted research at the Connecticut Museum in the fall of 2024. \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. \nAbout the speaker:  Elliot Warren is a PhD candidate at the College of William & Mary and the recipient of a short-term fellowship from the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. His dissertation\, from which this talk is adapted\, compares local governments in southern New England and Virginia to better understand the role local leaders played in the creation of the American state. Elliot is originally from New Jersey and received his BA from the George Washington University in 2018 and his MA from William & Mary in 2019. His work has been supported by the Library Company\, the Massachusetts Historical Society\, the Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry\, and the National Society of Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims. \nImage: Re-enactment of First Town Meeting in Meriden\, 1906. Photograph. 1980.80.16\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nget free tickets
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-connecticuts-local-leaders/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,online programming
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jennifer Busa":MAILTO:Jennifer_Busa@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250325T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - 'One Tory and One Scalp': Violence on the American Revolution's Northern Front
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nIn 1777\, during the American Revolutionary War\, Jane McCrea was killed by Native allies of the British. She was quickly elevated by the Patriot press as an American martyr\, making her the most famous civilian casualty of the war. Yet examining the surrounding events in primary sources\, including those in the collection of Connecticut Museum of Culture and History\, reveals a complex history that stretched back long before\, to warfare among the Haudenosaunee\, Wabanaki\, British\, and French. \nJoin us for a virtual presentation in which Dr. Blake Grindon\, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, will discuss her recent research findings. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Click ‘Get Tickets’ below to receive the Zoom link. Questions? Contact Jen Busa\, Public Programs Coordinator at jbusa@connecticutmuseum.org. \nAbout the speaker: Dr. Blake Grindon is at work on a book about the death of Jane McCrea. She received her PhD from Princeton University and is currently the Patrick Henry Postdoctoral Fellow in the History Department at Johns Hopkins University and NERFC fellow for 2024-25. Her work has appeared in the William and Mary Quarterly and has received support from the Clements Library\, the David Center for the American Revolution at the American Philosophical Society\, the Winterthur Museum\, the John Carter Brown Library\, and the Omohundro Institute. \nImage: Dr. Blake Grindon \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nGET FREE TICKETS
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-violence-on-the-american-revolutions-northern-front/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,online programming
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250416T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The Precious Birthright: Black Leaders and the Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode Island
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual presentation as historian CJ Martin discusses his new book\, The Precious Birthright: Black Leaders and the Fight to Vote in Antebellum Rhode Island\, published by the University of Massachusetts Press. \nIn 1842\, Black Rhode Islanders secured a stunning victory rarely seen in antebellum America – they won the right to vote. Amid heightened public discourse around shifting ideas of race\, citizenship\, and political rights\, they methodically deconstructed the arguments against their enfranchisement and chose the perfect moments in which to act forcefully. At the head of this movement was a cohort of prominent business and community members that formed an early example of a Black leadership class in the US\, including voting rights activist Alfred Niger\, who was born in Old Saybrook\, Connecticut. \nCJ Martin argues that Black leaders employed a unique combination of agitation and accommodation to ensure the success of this movement. By focusing on Black leadership\, Martin relates this history through the people who lived it\, and by investigating their tactics\, he deepens the story of how race played a crucial role in American citizenship. The Precious Birthright provides new insight into the larger story of Black freedom. Martin will also put this win into perspective with what was happening in Connecticut at this time. \nThis virtual event is free and open to the public. Register below to get the Zoom link. \nREGISTER\nAbout the Speaker: CJ Martin is a historian who focuses on Black history\, with a focus on the abolitionist movement and the politics of anti-slavery. He received his PhD at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is a faculty member at the College of the Holy Cross. His work has appeared in journals such as Rhode Island History and Commonplace. \nTo purchase a copy of CJ Martin’s book\, The Precious Birthright: Black Leaders and the fight to vote in Antebellum Rhode Island\, please click here. Use code UMASS20 for 20% off.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-the-precious-birthright/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:ask_us@chs.org
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Kuang Qizhao\, the Chinese\, and Mark Twain
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nPlease join us for a virtual presentation by Sam Wong and Evelyn Wong as they discuss the life of Kuang Qizhao\, the official translator for the Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) in Hartford\, Connecticut. \nThe CEM was the first time that the Chinese sent students abroad. Kuang was worked for the mission from 1874-83 and was a neighbor of Mark Twain’s. Reflecting his prominence in the neighborhood\, according to The New Haven Register\, if one wanted to visit with Kuang\, he needed to get “the social endorsement” of Mark Twain or Joseph Twichell\, Twain’s best friend. \nThis talk will discuss Kuang’s time in Hartford and his interactions with his neighbors—interactions which enabled him to formulate new ideas about how to modernize China.  At the same time\, Kuang astounded Americans by publishing A Dictionary of English Phrases\, surprising many Americans that a Chinese person\, a person from an “inferior” race\, could compile a dictionary to teach them their own language. \nEnglish scholars now recognize that Twain’s literature was influenced by the Chinese in Hartford\, and Kuang may have had an instrumental impact. Building on that scholarship\, this talk will provide specific examples of how Kuang and the Chinese may have influenced Twain\, particularly in Twain’s overlooked play called Ah Sin\, and then in his more famous books\, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.   \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. \nTICKETS\nThis virtual event is free! Click the button below to register. \nget free tickets\n  \nAbout the speakers: Sam Wong is the great great grandson of Kuang Qizhao. He has been conducting research on Kuang since 2010 and has co-authored three articles on the subject.  Sam Wong is Executive Director of China Renewable Energy Investment. He previously worked in investment banking at Kidder\, Peabody\, Bear Stearns\, Societe Generale\, and Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Wong has a B.A. from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the Yale School of Organization and Management. Evelyn Wong is the great great great granddaughter of Kuang Qizhao. She has authored and presented several articles on Kuang.  Evelyn Wong assisted in translating the book\, Searching for My Ideal China: An Illustrated Biography of Yung Wing\, the Father of Chinese Students Abroad. She co-presented at the book launch ceremony in Zhuhai\, China. She is a student at Singapore International School in Hong Kong. \n  \nImage: Kwong Ki Chiu\, The Dictionary of English Phrases. New York: A.S. Barnes\, 1881.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-kuang-qizhao/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Lunch and Learn,online programming
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The Windsor Locks Canal: Yankee Enterprise and Irish Muscle
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nJoin us for a virtual presentation as J. Christopher Kervick discusses his compelling new book\, The Windsor Locks Canal: Yankee Enterprise and Irish Muscle.  It is the story of human enterprise\, ambition\, invention\, raw manpower\, and the clash of cultures. \nThis uniquely American accomplishment could not have happened without the unlikely convergence of three social and economic groups\, including the wealthy merchants who conceived and promoted the canal\, the brilliant young civil engineers who designed it\, and the over four hundred Irish immigrant laborers who toiled from dawn to dusk in often lethal conditions to forge a better life in America. The synergy of these distinct forces created the backbone of Connecticut’s first planned\, water-powered industrial center\, one that remains profitable to this day. \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 Tickets\nAbout the Speaker:  J. Christopher Kervick is an instructor of local history at Mitchell College in New London\, Connecticut. He recently completed three terms as First Selectman of his hometown of Windsor Locks\, Connecticut\, and\, prior to that\, served as a Connecticut Judge of Probate. His boyhood home was just three hundred yards west of the Windsor Locks Canal (originally known as the Enfield Falls Canal). In 2001\, the State of Connecticut hired him to conduct a title search of the entire canal. The title search sparked his fascination with the story behind the canal\, especially the plight of the over four hundred unidentified Irish immigrant laborers who built the canal\, some of whom lost their lives in the effort. \nTo purchase a copy of J. Christopher Kervick’s new book\, The Windsor Locks Canal: Yankee Enterprise and Irish Muscle\, click here
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-the-windsor-locks-canal/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Lineage: The Power and Promise of Genealogy in Early America
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nGenealogy is everywhere– online\, on screens\, and through organizations and conferences and more.  But technologies aside\, genealogy was everywhere in the 18th century\, too. \nJoin us for a virtual presentation as historian Karin Wulf discusses her new book\, Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in 18th Century British America. Karin will discuss how meaningful genealogy was for diverse early Americans\, in part because genealogy was foundational in law\, politics\, and religion. \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 Tickets\nAbout the Speaker: Karin Wulf is the Beatrice and Julio Mario Santo Domingo Director and Librarian at the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History at Brown University.  A historian of early America\, what she refers to as “Vast Early America\,” she writes for public and academic audiences about early American history\, the worlds of scholarship and scholarly publishing\, and why footnotes can save democracy (really).  Karin is the author or editor of prize-winning scholarship on gender\, family\, and politics. Her book Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in 18th Century British America was published by Oxford University Press in June. \nTo purchase a copy of Karin Wulf’s new book\, Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in 18th Century British America\, click here
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-lineage/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250923T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Silent Presence: The French in New England
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nJeanne Douillard\, an independent scholar\, has probed the history of the French in New England for over twenty-five years.  One question she has addressed is why the French have had such a silent presence in New England. Jeanne believes the past is important. To her way of thinking\, history shapes people\, shapes cultures. She believes\, “We are the heirs of our ancestor’s journeys. Their experiences matter. We carry them with us even if their story is lost to us.” \nIn this virtual presentation Jeanne brings a unique\, fresh look to the story of “un petit people.” It is an approach which combines history and story\, attempting in its essence\, to get at the heart of a people. \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 Tickets\nAbout the speaker: Jeanne Douillard’s passion for the history of the French in the Americas led her to delve deeply into the quagmire of conflicting historiographies. English\, French and American historians of the past offered up irreconcilable views of La Nouvelle France [New France] and its people. She was intrigued. Jeanne authored I Remember… Je Me Souviens… in 2016. Jeanne is also one of the major contributors to the book Building a Better Life: The French-Canadians in Western Massachusetts\, published by the Republican newspaper in Springfield\, MA. Jeane also contributed a narrative poem\, “Not So Much the Same Place\,” to Heliotrope: French Heritage Women Create\, an anthology of women writers of French heritage. \nTo purchase Jeanne’s book\, I Remember…Je Me Souviens...\, email her directly: silentpresence1@gmail.com \nTo purchase Building a Better life The French-Canadians in Western Massachusetts click here \nTo purchase Heliotrope: French Heritage Women Create click here
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-silent-presence/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251007T120000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The ‘Great Temperance Times’ in Nineteenth-Century Black Connecticut
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nAt first glance\, alcohol and racial equality might seem unrelated—but for Black activists\, the temperance movement was a powerful vehicle for social change. This virtual talk by Mackenzie Tor\, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, will highlight the often-overlooked story of Black temperance activism in 19th-century Connecticut by following the state’s African American reformers as they navigated the era of slavery and freedom. In the process\, it reveals how they used temperance as a strategy for civic inclusion. Through their words and organizing efforts\, from newspaper columns to church halls\, abstaining from the bottle became a radical tool for political belonging in the hands of Connecticut’s Black communities. \nIn this virtual talk\, Mackenzie will also include research findings from her recent visit to the Connecticut Museum’s Waterman Research Center. \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 TICKETS\nAbout the speaker:  Mackenzie Tor is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Missouri with research interests in the history of reform movements\, African American intellectual history\, and American political culture. Her dissertation\, “Spirited Struggles: The Black Temperance Movement in Nineteenth-Century America\,” uses Black anti-alcohol advocacy as a lens for understanding the ways race and racism shaped the temperance movement during the long nineteenth century. Her research has been supported by organizations such as the McNeil Center for Early American Studies\, the American Antiquarian Society\, the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy\, and the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium. \nImage: “Connecticut State Temperance Convention\,” Colored American\, September 25\, 1841.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-the-great-temperance-times-in-nineteenth-century-black-connecticut/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251028T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Connecticut Soldiers and the Incident on the Massachusetts\, April 1865
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nIt was April 23\, 1865. Robert E. Lee had surrendered. Abraham Lincoln was dead. Assassin John Wilkes Booth and accomplice David Herold had crossed the Potomac River to safety. The Black Diamond\, hoping to prevent that crossing and catch the perpetrators\, was anchored with the Potomac Flotilla near Blackistone Lighthouse. All onboard the barge were unaware that they were too late. At the same time\, the Massachusetts was running downriver carrying U.S. soldiers back to their regiments. A tragedy occurred and by dawn\, the Black Diamond was on the bottom of the river; the Massachusetts was crippled\, and eighty-seven men were dead – many from regiments raised in Connecticut. \nJoin us for a virtual presentation as author Karen E. Stone unfolds the story of the Connecticut men\, their journey through the war\, and how this tragedy occurred. \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 TICKETS\nAbout the speaker:  Karen Stone was born and raised in Connecticut and that is where she got her first museum job – when she was in middle school. She holds a degree in history from Gettysburg College and has a master’s degree from Penn State. She has worked in museums in Massachusetts\, Pennsylvania\, and New York\, and has been the Museum Division Manager for St. Mary’s County\, Maryland for 8 years. \nTo purchase a copy of Karen Stone’s book\, Shipwreck on the Potomac – Disaster in Pursuit of Lincoln’s Killer\, Click here. \nImage: Karen Stone on the banks of the Potomac River\, near the site of the wreck. Photographed by Mancil Gray.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-connecticut-soldiers-and-the-incident-on-the-massachusetts-april-1865/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251125T130000
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Slavery\, Sin\, and Capital Punishment in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nIn the early modern British Atlantic\, jurists\, members of the clergy\, and ordinary people shaped ideas about criminal culpability. In colonial New England\, communities debated whether offenders bore the bulk of responsibility for their misdeeds or if society shared some of the blame based on the covenant established by Mosaic law. In this virtual talk\, Arrannè Rispoli\, New England Research Fellowship Consortium grantee\, will consider how questions surrounding culpability were further complicated when enslaved Africans were the alleged actors in question. Arrannè will analyze how Anglo-Americans wrestled with the contradiction that people held in bondage could be both categorically unfree and willful agents whose conscious actions necessitated their corporal punishment. \nUsing Connecticut as a case study\, Arrannè analyzes how criminal courts in the region both drew inspiration from and contributed to broader trans-Atlantic discourses of mens rea\, or the precursor to today’s criminal culpability. He argues that mens rea provided the legal mechanism that enabled the prosecution of enslaved Africans for capital offenses without undermining the logic that undergirded forced servitude\, thus allowing colonial actors to justify the institution of slavery as an instrument of control for enslaved populations whom they came to believe were more likely than the general population to commit felonies like murder\, rape\, and arson. \nArrannè will discuss how this framework colonial courts used to determine criminal culpability helped cultivate a predictive model of criminality that constructed the archetype of Black criminality in the colonial imagination\, the antecedent to the racialized depictions of crime so pervasive in today’s media landscape. \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 TICKETS\nAbout the speaker:  Arrannè Rispoli is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at UCLA\, where he is writing his dissertation titled “The Justice of Malicious Intent: Capital Punishment and The Origins of Black Criminality in Early New England.” His work has been supported by the Omohundro Institute\, the Rhode Island Historical Society\, the Folger Shakespeare Library\, the Massachusetts Historical Society\, and four institutions as part of the New England Research Fellowship Consortium\, including the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History. \nImage: 1962 illustration of Hannah Occuish\, the youngest person executed in U.S. history and the last woman executed in Connecticut. Joe De Bona for The Hartford Courant\, November 1\, 1964\, p. 231. Via Newspapers.com.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-slavery-sin-and-capital-punishment-in-eighteenth-century-connecticut/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251209T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T000144
CREATED:20250721T185023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251111T171644Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Living on the Edge in New England\, New Netherland\, and New Sweden
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nJoin us for a virtual presentation as Elizabeth Hines\, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, explores imperial entanglement in seventeenth-century North America. \nSettlers in the Dutch colony of New Netherland and the English colony of Connecticut argued repeatedly about the borders between them. They finally settled their territorial boundaries with the Treaty of Hartford in 1650 and sent the treaty to Europe. This talk investigates why\, six years later\, the Netherlands decided to officially ratify the treaty. Elizabeth argues that they did so in order to annex the neighboring Swedish colony of New Sweden. The broader imperial context of the decision to ratify the treaty\, and the history of Dutch investment in the Swedish empire\, shows that we need to study the Dutch\, English\, and Swedish empires together to understand early American history. \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: Elizabeth Hines is an Axson Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy Postdoctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University. She received a PhD in history from the University of Chicago in 2024. Her work has been supported by institutions including the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium\, the American Historical Association\, and the Omohundro Institute\, and she has held fellowships at the British Library\, the New Netherland Institute\, and the Huntington Library. \nImage: Dutch map of North America\, Digital Public Library of America.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-living-on-the-edge-new-netherlands/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:ask_us@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260106T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T000144
CREATED:20251113T203325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260105T152711Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED! Lunch and Learn - A Silent Revolution: The Mysterious Demise of Slavery in Revolutionary Connecticut
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE 1/5/2026: Event Postponed!\nDue to unforeseen circumstance\, this virtual program will be postponed to a later date. Thank you to all our registrants and those interested in attending. Please stay tuned for updates\, and we hope to see you in the future! \nVirtual Presentation! \nSlavery in Connecticut did not end completely until well into the nineteenth century. During the American Revolution\, enslaved people themselves dealt the largest blow to bondage and ushered in the first significant free Black population in Connecticut’s history. \nPlease join us as New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, William Morgan\, discusses his research findings from his recent trip to the Connecticut Museum Waterman Research Center.  He will explore how our collections demonstrate that Black people\, not legislation\, crippled slavery at its peak in the 1770s and 80s by making opportunities of the conflict with Britain. Black people made a silent revolution of their own\, quietly forging spaces of freedom where none had existed before. \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 William Morgan is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History at Indiana University\, Bloomington. He is writing a dissertation about the origins and legacy of emancipation and abolition in Revolutionary New England. \nImage: Photo courtesy of William Morgan
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-demise-of-slavery/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:ask_us@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260108T190000
DTSTAMP:20260406T000144
CREATED:20251113T203154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251113T203154Z
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SUMMARY:Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Book Talk! \nCoffee is among the most common goods traded and consumed worldwide\, and so omnipresent its popularity is often taken for granted. But even everyday habits have a history. When and why coffee became part of North American daily life is at the center of the recently published book\, Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States\, by Michelle Craig McDonald. \nUsing a wide range of archival\, quantitative\, and material evidence\, Michelle Craig McDonald follows coffee from the slavery-based plantations of the Caribbean and South America\, through the balance sheets of Atlantic world merchants\, into the coffeehouses\, stores\, and homes of colonial North Americans\, and ultimately to the growing import/export businesses of the early nineteenth-century United States that rebranded this exotic good as an American staple. The result is a sweeping history that explores how coffee shaped the lives of enslaved laborers and farmers\, merchants and retailers\, consumers and advertisers. \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: Michelle Craig McDonald is the Director of the Library & Museum for the American Philosophical Society\, and her research focuses on trade and consumer behavior in North America and the Caribbean during the 18th and 19th centuries. Her most recent book\, Coffee Nation: How One Commodity Transformed the Early United States\, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in May 2025\, based on research supported by the Fulbright Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the McNeil Center for Early American Studies\, the Library Company of Philadelphia\, and the Winterthur Library and Museum. In addition to her doctorate from the University of Michigan\, she holds an M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College\, Annapolis\, and M.A. in Museum Studies from George Washington University\, a B.A. in History from the University of California\, Los Angeles\, and was the Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellow in Business History at the Harvard Business School \nTo purchase the book:  Coffee Nation – Penn Press
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/coffee-nation/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260127T130000
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CREATED:20251113T203007Z
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SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - Faith Trumbull Huntington: An Eighteenth-Century Woman Encounters War
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation! \nFaith Trumbull Huntington (1742/43-1775) was an extremely well-educated young colonial woman from Lebanon\, CT. Obsessively pious as well as artistically gifted\, she was the eldest daughter of merchant\, and future wartime governor\, Jonathan Trumbull. Trumbull’s investment in her education paid off as she married wealthy merchant Jedediah Huntington (1743-1818) from Norwich\, CT. \nIn this virtual talk\, Maggie Meahl will explore Faith’s education\, including her exceptional needlework\, marriage\, and early death\, and analyze it in the context of the Revolutionary War era merchant class. Please note that depression and suicide will be discussed in this presentation. \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:  Maggie Meahl is an independent researcher with an MAT in History from Salem State University. She has been published in numerous magazines and journals. She is currently writing a book on the rise and fall of the Huntington merchant family of Norwich\, CT. Maggie’s article on Norwich\, CT as a military supply depot during 1776 is scheduled to be published in the Connecticut History Review’s “1776 in Connecticut” edition. \nImage: Overmantel\, made by Faith Trumbull\, 1761\, Embroidery\, 1925.1.3\, Connecticut Museum collection
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-faith-trumbull-huntington/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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ORGANIZER;CN="Connecticut Museum of Culture and History":MAILTO:ask_us@chs.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260210T130000
DTSTAMP:20260406T000144
CREATED:20251113T203548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260112T180155Z
UID:27308-1770724800-1770728400@www.connecticutmuseum.org
SUMMARY:Lunch and Learn - The People and the Law in Revolutionary Massachusetts
DESCRIPTION:Virtual Presentation!\nConflict over the law played a defining role in shaping the political landscape of Revolutionary Massachusetts. The state’s Revolutionary period was bookended by upheaval centered around the courts: the rebellion against the Coercive Acts began in 1774 with a series of court closings in western Massachusetts\, and Shays’s Rebellion commenced in a similar manner\, with attempted court closings in the same part of the state. In the interim\, Massachusetts Patriots struggled to work out what the American Revolution meant for the law. Should the English common law inheritance be upheld\, or did the Revolution signal an opportunity to reshape the legal system in the image of the people? \nThis talk by New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee\, Tristan New\, examines how this struggle to define the relationship between popular rule and the law informed the state’s politics during the Revolutionary era. \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: Tristan New is a PhD Candidate in American History at Boston University\, where his research focuses on the political and constitutional dimensions of the American Revolution. His dissertation\, “The People\, the Courts\, and the Contested Revolution in Massachusetts\, 1772-1788\,” examines how conflict over the law shaped the course of the American Revolution in Massachusetts. His research has been supported by institutions including the New England Regional Fellowship Consortium and the Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences\, and he has presented his work at forums including the David Center for the American Revolution and the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. \nImage: Note of Hand\, John Bliss Justice of the Peace Records\, 1784-1786\, MS 34746\, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History collection.
URL:https://www.connecticutmuseum.org/event/lunch-and-learn-the-people-and-the-law/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:online programming,Special Event
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