Join us for a virtual presentation as Professors Kete and Petrino introduce us to Lydia Sigourney’s central role as an American poet, educator, and rights activist and to the Lydia Sigourney Digital Archive Project.
Join us for a virtual presentation as Dr. Marie McDaniel discusses items from the Museum's collection written by women living through the American Revolution.
Join us as we listen to songs from various sources from the Colonial and Revolutionary period. Robert Cohen will help us understand the role music played during this period.
William Morgan 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.
This talk by Tristan New, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, examines how this struggle to define the relationship between popular rule and the law informed the state’s politics during the Revolutionary era.
In this virtual talk, Maggie Meahl will explore Faith’s education (exceptional needlework), marriage, and early death and analyze it in the context of the Revolutionary War era merchant class.
In this virtual talk, author Michelle Craig McDonald will discuss her new book, Coffee Nation, which explores when and why coffee became part of North American daily life.
William Morgan 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.
This virtual talk by Elizabeth Hines, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will explore why the Dutch colony of New Netherland accept so many settlers the New England colonies expelled in the seventeenth century.
Join us as Arrannè Rispoli discusses how the 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.
Join us as author Karen E. Stone unfolds the story of the steamer Massachusetts and it's Connecticut men, their journey through the war, and how this tragedy on the Potomac occurred.
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.
