Short Attention Span Literary Club

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford, CT

We're taking our Literary Club meeting to cyberspace! Grab a cup of coffee and settle down in front of your chosen device to chat with about this meeting's chosen short story, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair". Click to learn how to join us!

Short Attention Span Literary Club

Connecticut Museum of Culture and History 1 Elizabeth St, Hartford, CT

We're taking our Literary Club meeting to cyberspace! Grab a cup of coffee and settle down in front of your chosen device to chat with about this meeting's chosen short story, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Bernice Bobs Her Hair". Click to learn how to join us!

Lunch and Learn: Mouth to Mouth – The Tooth Trade in Washington’s World

Virtual

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.

Lunch and Learn: Indigenous Unfreedom and Race Making in Early New England

Virtual

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.

Free

Lunch and Learn: Justices of the Peace and the American Revolution

Virtual

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.

Free