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Connecticut History

Table of Contents: Vol.44 #2 Fall 2005

Articles 

Dominic DeBrincat

Discolored Justice: Blacks in New London County Courts, 1710-1750 

Mark H. Jones

“To Tell Our Story”: Mary Townsend Seymour and the Early Years of Hartford’s Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1917 – 1920 

Barbara J. Beeching

Reading the Numbers: Census Returns as Key to the Nineteenth Century Black Community in Hartford, Connecticut 

Diane Cameron

Circumstances of Their Lives: Enslaved and Free Women of Color Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1648-1832 

Essays  

 Karyl K. Evans

Visualizing Connecticut’s Past: The Art of Historical Documentary Filmmaking

 Matthew Warshauer

The Poet as Historian: An Interview with Marilyn Nelson, Connecticut Poet Laureate 

 Eileen M. Hurst

Voices of Connecticut Veterans: Willie James Macon, an African American Soldier in World War II 

 The Connecticut Curriculum 

 

 Peter P. Hinks

 Teaching the African American Experience: A Review of Resources and Curricular Options

 Joseph Yannielli

 African American History in Connecticut: A Review of Internet Resources 

 Robert P. Forbes

 

Connecticut Connections: African American Sites in Connecticut: A Laboratory for the History of Slavery and Human Rights 

 Exhibition Review Essay 

 

 Melissa Sirick Josefiak

 

 “A Nightmare of Water”: Connecticut Survives the Flood of 1955 

Exhibitions Reviews  
 

 The Connecticut Historical Society, Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and his Contemporaries 1750-1800.
          Reviewed by Hilary Anderson      

 

Florence Griswold Museum, The Allen Sisters: Pictorial Photographers of New England 1885-1920.
          Reviewed by Leslie Lindenauer 

 

Deacon John Grave House, Making Ends Meet: Financing Everyday Life for a Madison Family, 1685-1865.
          Reviewed by Karl Valois 

Exhibitions of Interest  
Book Review Essays  
  “Lemuel Haynes and New England’s New World” A Review of John Saillant,  Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833.
        Reviewed by Peter P. Hinks

Book Reviews

 
 

John Wood Sweet, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830.       
         Reviewed by Alexandra Maravel  

 

 Chistopher Collier, All Politics Is Local: Family, Friends and the Creation of the Constitution.
          Reviewed by Scott McLean

Noteworthy Books  

  

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