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Bell Ringing Ceremony to Commemorate 400 Years of First Enslaved Africans

A nationwide bell ringing ceremony echoed throughout the country on Sunday afternoon to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in English-occupied North America. The National Park System invited community partners to come together in solidarity for a day of healing and reconciliation symbolized by ringing bells simultaneously for four minutes…

When Public Art Made the Walls Talk

Path of the World, Richard C. Lee gymnasium high school, summer 1977. It’s a riot of color and design, a range of faces representing every human emotion from happiness to concern. The city swirls behind the people, the perspective almost creating a sense of vertigo. And the people’s hands reach out to us still…

“Community Mural Program Remembered”

In early 2017 New Haven's Q" House on Dixwell Avenue was imploded to make way for a new community center. Inside that long-abandoned Modernist building were two murals painted almost forty years ago. They were the last survivors of a small but productive community mural program run for a handful of years in the late 1970s by the City of New Haven with federal funds…

Call for Papers: Articles on Monuments, Sculpture, and Bas Reliefs

The fall issue of Nineteenth Century, published by the Victorian Society in America, will feature monuments, sculpture, and bas reliefs, along with their creators and commissioning agents. Co-editors Warren Ashworth and Laura A. Macaluso are looking for essays addressing the contemporary context for American sculpture: including legacy, controversy, and recent scholarship…

HRBook Notes: Author Releases Guide to Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia

Author Takes Different View of Virginia History

Get To Know The Author: Laura Macaluso, PhD

Macaluso Writes About Why Jefferson Truly Belongs in the State of Virginia

Jefferson’s Virginia

It is one thing to read about Thomas Jefferson, either in his own words or in the history and opinions written by others, but it is an entirely different and far more vivid experience to actually “see” Mr. Jefferson by visiting the scenes and places where he was present. Laura Macaluso’s welcomed addition to the already vast bibliography of books about Thomas Jefferson allows one to actually seek out and discover the settings and buildings in which the presence of the man may still be felt…

New Haven’s Vast Public Art Is Often Unseen