Lunch and Learn: Meet Albert Walker from Glastonbury, the Magician Who Liked Large Noses
Please join us for a virtual presentation by Robert Olson for a discussion on the life and magic of Albert Walker.
Please join us for a virtual presentation by Robert Olson for a discussion on the life and magic of Albert Walker.
Please join us for a virtual presentation by Robert Olson for a discussion on the life and magic of Albert Walker.
Please join us for a virtual presentation by Historian Mary Mahoney on bibliotherapy, or the use of books as medicine.
Please join us for a virtual presentation by Historian Mary Mahoney on bibliotherapy, or the use of books as medicine.
Have you ever turned to a book for consolation? Treasured the escape of a novel? Found comfort in a poem, self-help book, or simply from reading the newspaper?
Please join us for a virtual presentation by Historian Mary Mahoney on bibliotherapy, or the use of books as medicine. This talk will offer an exploration of the varied ways readers, doctors, and librarians have imagined books as medicine in the past.
Please join us for a virtual discussion by Professor Cornelia Dayton about mental health in colonial New England.
In this virtual presentation, Lucy Smith, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will examine how this ideological shift fueled a tooth trade that traces the movement of early dentists throughout Connecticut, across the ocean, and at the intimate level of teeth moving from one mouth to another.
In this virtual presentation, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellow Emily Whitted will utilize examples from her research in the museum and archival collections at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History to investigate the history of textile repair in early America.
This virtual presentation by Isaac Lee, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will explore this history and explain how rural New England sustained Atlantic slavery.
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.
This virtual presentation by Jeffrey A. Denman will explore John Quincy Adams’ involvement in the Amistad affair and his politics.
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.