March 2021
Crafting History and a Place of Honor for Mary Brice at Point of Honor
Canceled due to COVID-19.
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Archival Kismet
This non-traditional virtual conference will be a forum for history researchers and those in allied disciplines to share early research findings, focusing on the objects, artifacts, and ephemera of the archive.
Details »William Lanson: A Story of Glory & Tragedy in 19th Century New Haven
Site Projects announces a Seminar and Film, April 25, 2021. 3 - 4:40 PM. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILLIAM LANSON. 19th c Black Businessman and Builder of the City, Excluded from the city’s history for almost two-centuries, New Haven is finally elevating this important man for his contributions to our city. The program will be the most comprehensive and accessible collection of historical data available on Lanson to date, and will consist of a pamphlet, video, and virtual seminar.…
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Public History Summer School
4th International Conference Studying Public History - Methods, Difficulties, Perspectives. My paper is titled, "Connecticut without Columbus: A Case Study in Civic Failure."
Details »The Story of “Inventing Disease” via the Eli Whitney Grave Marker in Grove Street Cemetery
This short visual presentation offers the story of “Inventing Disease” in the first half of the nineteenth century, revolving around the figure of Eli Whitney, well known for the cotton gin and for his interchangeable gun parts factory on the Mill River. Whitney’s grave marker and the subsequent memorializing and honoring of fellow white industrialists such as Charles Goodyear, whose own grave marker is also in Grove Street Cemetery, created a pantheon of political and social power that extended all…
Details »Contested Histories online workshop
Contested Histories: Creating and Critiquing Public Monuments and Memorials in a New Age of Iconoclasm is organised by Swansea University’s Conflict, Reconstruction and Memory research group. Exploring debates surrounding the cultural and political uses of monuments, and reflecting upon their role in the memorialisation and imagining of the past. For the purposes of the proceedings, we will take a broad view of ‘monuments’, considering artefacts such as war memorials, cenotaphs and public statuary as well as urban sites damaged through…
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A Portrait of Resistance
A Portrait of Resistance: Power and Problems in the Image of Cinque of the Amistad Mutiny A small almost square portrait of a Black man wearing a white toga appeared in early 1840. This man was Cinque, or Sengbe Pieh, the leader of the mutiny on board La Amistad, a slave transport ship intending to carry him and other West Africans to Caribbean Islands for a lifetime of brutality and labor. Instead, due to their resistance, the Amistad Africans went…
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“Narrating Lives:” Storytelling, (Auto) Biography and (Auto)Ethnography
"Writing Edgewood Lives: Donald Grant Mitchell and Jennie Gilbert Jerome" Life-history approach occupies the central place in conducting and producing (auto)biographical and (auto)ethnographic studies through the understanding of self, other, and culture. We construct and develop conceptions and practices by engaging with memory through narrative, in order to negotiate ambivalences and uncertainties of the world and to represent (often traumatic) experiences. The “Narrating Lives” conference will focus on reading and interpreting (auto)biographical texts and methods across the humanities, social sciences,…
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Out of Time: R.E.M., Gen X and Public History
This virtual gathering is an opportunity for Gen X public historians to connect and reflect on our unique place in American society. Despite the power of music exemplified by the Indie band from Athens turned pop star powerhouses that is REM, Gen X is the smallest generation in modern history, and often marginalized from conversations in the media and in politics. We have a different perspective from those who came before, and those who came after us. Born into an…
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Historically Situated: History, Memory, and Place
In 1820, New York merchant William Ferris Pell took the remarkable step of purchasing the grounds of the former military post at Fort Ticonderoga. Pell prevented the further deterioration of the fort ruins by installing a fence, a small by powerful act that marks perhaps the first private preservation effort of an 18th-century battlefield site in American history. Throughout 2020 Fort Ticonderoga will be involved in a number of preservation efforts, the restoration of William Ferris Pell’s summer home the…
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