News and Features
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Yale University & the Politics of Slavery
Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented the webinar “Yale University & the Politics of Slavery” on November 4, 2021 The talk was given by Bennett Parten, a doctoral candidate and a member of the Yale and Slavery Group which the institution’s president created and charged with studying the University’s history.
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Poets Marilyn Nelson, Rhonda M. Ward, Antoinette Brim-Bell, and Kate Rushin and Their Witness Stones Project Collaboration
The poets’ collaborative project appears in the the November 2021 issue of Poetry magazine. The poems were commissioned by the Witness Stones Old Lyme Affiliate and were debuted at the June 4, 2021, Witness Stones Installation in Old Lyme. We invite you to read the interview about the collaboration and the full portfolio of poems: What…
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Race, Slavery, and Yale’s Construction of Its Memory
In October 2021, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University hosted its 23rd annual conference, Yale & Slavery in Historical Perspective. During the concluding roundtable, Adrienne Joy Burns, Physician Assistant at Smilow Cancer Center and member of the Amistad Committee, discussed how the Witness Stones Project and…
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Yale University and the Politics of Slavery
“Yale University & the Politics of Slavery” is the next talk in the webinar series co-sponsored by Guilford’s Witness Stones Project Affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford. The talk will be given by Bennett Parten, a doctoral candidate and a member of the Yale and Slavery Group which the institution’s president created and…
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Witness Stones Project Executive Director Makes the Case for Teaching History
By Mark Pazniokas in the Connecticut Mirror on October 24, 2021 Guilford’s children are capable of absorbing hard lessons about an overlooked past,” [Culliton] said. “You read a book like ‘Disowning Slavery’ by Joanne Pope Mellish, and you read that book, and it’s not critical race theory,” Culliton said. “It is history of New England…
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Guilford Superintendent Discusses Witness Stones Project
From Connecticut Public Radio on October 19, 2021 Guilford High School English Chair George Cooksey and Superintendent Paul Freeman explain that while critical race theory is not itself taught in the K-12 environment in Guilford, “dimension” and diversity of source material is still a priority. Listen to the broadcast here.
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Religion, Race and Slavery in Colonial New England with Dr. Ken Minkema
Local Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History presented this lecture at the Guilford Free Library.
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WSP Looks Forward to Working with New Historic Deerfield President
The Greenfield Recorder on September 27, 2021 DEERFIELD — Historic Deerfield welcomed John Davis, the museum’s new president and CEO, earlier this month as he begins his job after being hired in May. Davis, the former provost and undersecretary for museums, education and research at the Smithsonian Institution, said in a press release that…
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Suffield Fund Awards Grant to Witness Stones Project
By Journal Inquirer Staff on September 24, 2021 SUFFIELD — Ten local organizations have received grants totaling $80,753 from the Amiel P. Zak Public Service Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. The fund, which benefits local organizations, was established in 2002 by Michael Zak to honor his late father, Amiel, a teacher at Suffield…
