Category: Lecture
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The Three Faces of Slavery in Connecticut
Professor Robert Pierce Forbes discussed The Three Faces of Slavery in Connecticut on April 21, 2021, at the Guilford Free Library. Robert Pierce Forbes, author of The Missouri Compromise and […]
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An Evening Conversation at Connecticut’s Old State House
Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director joined Capitol Region Education Council teacher and Central Connecticut State University Public History graduate student Kaitlyn Oberndorfer for an Evening Conversation at Connecticut’s […]
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Black American Slave James Mars’s Story in Virtual Program
The Litchfield County Times on March 25, 2021 SALISBURY — Noble Horizons will host “The Life and Times of James Mars: The Story of a Connecticut Slave,” a virtual presentation, […]
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Equity and Social Justice in Guilford
Guilford Superintendent of Schools Paul Freeman gave a talk on Equity and Social Justice in Guilford Public Schools at the Guilford Free Library on March 11, 2021. Freeman discussed recent […]
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Honoring The Silent: Documenting African American & Native American History In Connecticut
The Norwalk Historical Society hosted Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton and Central Connecticut State University Professor Dr. Katherine A. Hermes, J.D., Ph.D., for a presentation on […]
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How the Aftermath of the Civil War Helps Us Understand Trumpism
David W. Blight, the Pulitzer-Prize winning historian and Yale Professor, spoke about How the Aftermath of the Civil War Helps Us Understand Trumpism on February 11, 2021. No historical event […]
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Understanding Slavery in the North
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition invited Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Dennis Culliton and community historian Adrienne Joy Burns to speak […]
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Remapping New England: Monuments, Markers, and Collective Memory
Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton joined Representative Rachel Talbot Ross of the Portland Freedom Trail, Charles Roberts of Rhode Island Slave History Medallions, JerriAnne Boggis of […]
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Witness Stones & Hard History
On August 3, 2020 Witness Stones Project Co-Chair and Connecticut Representative Patricia Wilson Pheanious and Witness Stones Project Founder and Executive Director Dennis Culliton took part in a Connecticut Association […]
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“Look at the Whole Story”: CT Educators Rethink Lessons on Racism, Slavery
By Meghan Friedmann in the New Haven Register on July 31, 2020 A team of educators hopes to empower teachers to educate their students about racism and slavery in southern […]