Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualThis month, we discuss "Destroyed" by Hilary Mantel.
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Lunch and Learn: Black Revolution on the Sea Islands
VirtualThis virtual Lunch and Learn presentation by Frances O’Shaughnessy draws on military letters, treasury reports, and personal letters from the denoted “Port Royal Experiment” to historicize Gullah Geechee people’s expressions of freedom during the Civil War,
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Hidden Literacies: A Digital Resource From Overlooked Archives
VirtualHidden Literacies is an exciting digital anthology created by Trinity College that reveals the surprising, often neglected roles reading and writing have played in the lives of marginalized Americans—from indigenous and enslaved people to prisoners and young children. Come learn more about using these sources (and expert commentaries) in your classrooms and libraries!
Lunch and Learn: What Time Is It?
VirtualIn this talk, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) Fellow Alexandra M. Macdonald will draw from both the museum and archival collections at the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History to offer insight into how our perception of time has always been sensory, and suggest that clock time may not be as all-consuming as it might feel.
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Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualThis month, we discuss "The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz.
Legacies: The Chinese Educational Mission 150 Years Later
VirtualJoin us to learn about exciting projects at both the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History and Phillips Academy that share the stories of the boys of the Chinese Educational Mission.
Lunch and Learn: The History of Czech Communities in the U.S.
VirtualPlease join us for a virtual talk by Dr. Martin Nekola as he discusses the history of Czech immigrants in the U.S.
Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualThis month's story is Grace Paley's "My Father Addresses Me On The Facts of Old Age."
Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualOnce per month, we get together to chat about short stories. This month’s selection is “Baby, You Were Great” by Kate Wilhelm.
Lunch and Learn — A Young, Sad Country: Melancholia in Colonial New England and Its Impact on Early American Literature
VirtualBefore there were asylums in America there was mental illness, but how did early Americans understand and deal with it? In this talk, learn about melancholia, a form of mental illness plaguing colonial New England, its types and treatments, and the surprising connection between real cases and the emergence of an American literary tradition.
Lunch and Learn: From Gardner’s Wharf to Elizabeth Street — Searching for Rhode Island Slavery in the CMCH Archives
VirtualJoin us for a free, virtual talk to learn about Newport Gardner, an enslaved African who became a major free black community leader in Rhode Island during the post-Revolutionary years.
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Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualOnce per month, we get together to chat about short stories. This month’s selection is “The Embassy of Cambodia” by Zadie Smith.