This virtual talk by Elizabeth Hines, New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, will explore why the Dutch colony of New Netherland accept so many settlers the New England colonies expelled in the seventeenth century.
William Morgan will explore how our collections demonstrate that Black people, not legislation, crippled slavery at its peak in the 1770s and 80s by making opportunities of the conflict with Britain.
In this virtual talk, author Michelle Craig McDonald will discuss her new book, Coffee Nation, which explores when and why coffee became part of North American daily life.
In this virtual talk, Marggie Meahl will explore Faith’s education (exceptional needlework), marriage, and early death and analyze it in the context of the Revolutionary War era merchant class.
This talk by Tristan New, a New England Regional Fellowship Consortium grantee, examines how this struggle to define the relationship between popular rule and the law informed the state’s politics during the Revolutionary era.
