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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Join 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.
Join us for this virtual presentation, as Dr. Eric Totten, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will discuss the eclectic experiences of the Connecticut Yankees in and around the Ancient City during the American Civil War.
