Tag: #GuilfordCT
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Why Venture Smith’s Life Mattered
Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented this webinar on March 28, 2022, through the Guilford Free Library.
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England with Dr. Jared Hardesty
Witness Stones Project affiliate Witness to History: Slavery in Guilford presented this webinar on January 13, 2022 through the Guilford Free Library.
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Witness Stones Project Among Guilford Recipients of Humanities Grants
By Ellyn Santiago in the Guilford Patch on January 12, 2022 GUILFORD, CT — Guilford’s arts community will soon be enriched with the announcement Wednesday by state Sen. Christine Cohen about a quarter million in state arts grants. The funds were awarded to nearly two-dozen shoreline arts and humanities organizations to “help them financially survive during…
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Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England with Dr. Jared Hardesty
The local initiative, Slavery in Guilford: Witness to History, will present a webinar with Dr. Jared Hardesty. Shortly after the first Europeans arrived in seventeenth-century New England, they began to import Africans and capture the area’s indigenous peoples as slaves. By the eve of the American Revolution, enslaved people comprised only about 4 percent of…
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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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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.
