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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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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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.
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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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Lunch and Learn – The Connecticut Yankee Occupation of St. Augustine, FL, 1862-1865
VirtualJoin 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.
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Lunch and Learn – The Civilian Conservation Corps in Connecticut, 1933–42
VirtualJoin us for this virtual presentation, as Dr. James Fortuna, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will investigate the CCC’s role as an agent of national transformation and considers the links between the New Deal’s treatment of the American landscape and its promotion of a new, more pluralistic national identity.
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Lunch and Learn – Connecticut’s Local Leaders: Creating the State and Economy in the Early Republic
VirtualJoin us for this virtual presentation, as New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, Elliot Warren, discusses how local leaders in Connecticut were integral to the development of an ‘American’ political economy in the early Republic.
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Lunch and Learn – ‘One Tory and One Scalp’: Violence on the American Revolution’s Northern Front
VirtualJoin us for this virtual presentation as New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, Dr. Blake Grindon, discusses the complex history leading up to the killing of Jane McCrea during the American Revolutionary War.
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Lunch and Learn – Kuang Qizhao, the Chinese, and Mark Twain
VirtualJoin us for this virtual presentation as Sam Wong and Evelyn Wong discuss the life of Kuang Qizhao, the official translator for the Chinese Educational Mission (CEM) in Hartford, Connecticut and his relationship with his neighbor, Mark Twain.
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