Adrienne Billings-Smith will discuss the journey researchers who are interested in discovering Black Heritage can follow using the many resources found at the Connecticut State Library. Adrienne is a local attorney and Town Councilor in West Hartford, Connecticut. She also founded Concerned Parents of Color of West Hartford (CPCWH) in 2020 to advocate for change […]
Join Us For A Special International Third Thursday Lunchtime Lecture! Join us on Zoom or Facebook Live to hear about how this team of high school students, chaperones, and historians from Connecticut and France worked side by side to restore trenches once occupied by the 26th "Yankee" Division. You'll hear firsthand from the students about […]
Author and Historian Douglas Arnold will give a talk on the 1818 Constitutional Convention, and the political aftermath, including fiscal reform on October 18, 2018, 12:00 P.M.-12:45 P.M., at the Connecticut State Library. In 1818, enough dissenters from the Congregational Church organized to unseat the Federalist Party (the traditional party of the Congregationalist) in Connecticut. […]