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 its Aftermath and editor of the forthcoming Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia: An Annotated Edition talked about Connecticut’s deep connection to slavery:…
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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 Old State House. We invite you to watch their conversation: This event was made possible by support from the Greater Hartford Arts Council. The Council…
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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, on April 1 at 7:15 p,m. Registration for this free Zoom program is at noblehorizons.org. Salisbury history teacher Rhonan Mokriski and his students will discuss their…
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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 efforts focused on the Board of Education’s adopted initiative to ”further develop a culture, and instructional practices, that foster equity and social justice in our…
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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 documenting hidden history. We invite you to watch: The Norwalk Historical Society was incorporated in 1899 with the focus on “the research, preservation, and promotion…
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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 has left as deep an imprint on America’s collective memory as the Civil War. In the war’s aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off…
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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 at one of their Brown Bag Lunch Talks. We invite you to listen to their conversation with GLC Director David Blight: The Gilder Lehrman Center…
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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 Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire and moderator Dr. Kate McMahon of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian’s National Museum…
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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 of Independent Schools Workshop on Teaching Hard History. We invite you to watch their address here: The Connecticut Association of Independent Schools is a voluntary…
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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 New England – and to do so correctly. A nationally-renowned scholar, two Connecticut teachers and a state representative, all of whom advocate for a reconfiguration…