In this virtual presentation, Jaimie Crumley will discuss how what historians have described as the fragility of freedom was made evident through the indenture system in early nineteenth-century Connecticut.
In this virtual presentation, Shea Hendry will discuss how adolescent participants in the loyalist exodus retained their legal rights to membership within both British and U.S. polities in the aftermath of independence.
This month’s story is “Those Are As Brothers,” by Nancy Hale.
This month’s story is “The Swimmer,” by John Cheever.
This month’s story is “History Report,” by Simon Rich.
Join 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.
This month’s story is “The Hospital Where" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
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.
This month’s story is “Shingles for the Lord," by William Faulkner.
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.
This month’s story is “I Stand Here Ironing," by Tillie Olson.
This virtual presentation by Jeffrey A. Denman will explore John Quincy Adams’ involvement in the Amistad affair and his politics.
