Tag: #GuilfordCT
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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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“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 […]
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A Memorial Project Is Rediscovering Stories of Slavery in Connecticut
By Erik Ofgang in Connecticut Magazine on July 24, 2019. Shortly before the Revolutionary War, an enslaved Connecticut man named Jeffrey Brace was beaten unconscious by his new owner, John Burwell of Milford. Burwell […]
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Dennis Culliton Receives Social Studies Special Projects Award
Guilford Public Schools News and Announcements on June 12, 2019 Dennis Culliton, social studies teacher at Adams Middle School, has received the Special Projects Award from the Connecticut Council for […]
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A Witness to History: Brown Chairs Witness Stone’s Juneteenth at Hyland House
By Pam Johnson on Zip06.com on June 12, 2019 GUILFORD — “When we did the first Juneteenth last year, the first question we asked the audience was, ‘How many people […]
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The Connecticut Role in Slavery Was Worse Than You Think
By Meghan Friedmann in New Haven Register on February 26, 2019. GUILFORD — For many, Harriet Beecher Stowe — the Connecticut-bred woman behind the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin —represents one of the […]
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Guilford Project Researching Slavery Finds Descendant Living in Connecticut
By Ed Stannard in the New Haven Register on November 4, 2018 GUILFORD — Patricia Wilson Pheanious was sitting on the porch of her Ashford home when her husband came out […]
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Witness Stones Holds First Summer Workshop
Last week, the Witness Stones Project conducted its first Teachers’ Workshop inviting educators from West Hartford, Middletown, and Guilford. At the workshop they learned, shared, and discover the project whose […]
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Remembrance Deferred
By Yonatan Greenberg in the New Journal at Yale on February 16, 2018. Guilford, a town of twenty-thousand half an hour north of New Haven, is a place that loves […]
