Ann Petry: Life and Legacy
VirtualLearn about one of Connecticut's most unique and powerful literary voices.
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Lunch and Learn: Discover Connecticut’s Black Antebellum Communities
VirtualPre-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.
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Lunch and Learn: John Quincy Adams and the Amistad Affair
VirtualThis virtual presentation by Jeffrey A. Denman will explore John Quincy Adams’ involvement in the Amistad affair and his politics.
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Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualThis month’s story is “I Stand Here Ironing," by Tillie Olson.
Lunch and Learn: Justices of the Peace and the American Revolution
VirtualThis 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.
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Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualThis month’s story is “Shingles for the Lord," by William Faulkner.
Lunch and Learn – The Forgotten Chinese Generations
VirtualPresenter, 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.
Short Attention Span Literary Club
VirtualThis month’s story is “The Hospital Where" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah.
Lunch and Learn: Lyman Eppes – Black Yankee and Adirondack Pioneer
VirtualJoin 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.
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Lunch and Learn – “Anomalous Characters”: The Children of the Loyalists
VirtualIn 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.
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Lunch and Learn – Bound Out: The Spiritual Lives of Freeborn Black Domestic Servants
VirtualIn 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.
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Lunch and Learn – Authors and Entrepreneurs: Black Self-Publishers in New England
VirtualJoin us for this 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.
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