AMERICAN HISTORY
Events
250 Years of American Diplomacy Featuring Michael Brenes at the Pequot Library in Southport
Pequot Library 720 Pequot Avenue, FairfieldAs the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, we’re taking a closer look at the powerful force that is U.S. diplomacy. The World Affairs Council of Connecticut and the Pequot […]
Opening Night Lecture: For Which It Stands… at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldOpening Night Lecture: For Which It Stands... Aaron Weinstein, PhD, Assistant Professor, Politics, Fairfield University, and Exhibition Faculty Liaison Quick Center for the Arts, Kelley Theatre, and streaming Dr. Weinstein’s talk explores the complex role of the U.S. flag in America’s “civil religion,” examining how its meaning shifts based on context, political use, and personal interpretation. […]
For Which It Stands… at Fairfield University Art Museum
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldJanuary 23-July 25, 2026 This exhibition examines depictions of the American flag through 75 works by a diverse group of artists, beginning during WWI with Childe Hassam’s Italian Day, May 1918 and continuing to the present day, including a textile sculpture commissioned for the show from Maria de Los Angeles. The exhibition includes work in a variety […]
250 Years of American Diplomacy Featuring Michael Hattem at the Pequot Library in Southport
Pequot Library 720 Pequot Avenue, FairfieldJoin us for a talk and book signing with Michael Hattem, an American historian with interests in early America, the American Revolution, and historical memory. He is the author of The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History (Yale University Press, 2024), which was a finalist for the 2025 George Washington Prize, and Past and Prologue: […]
250 Years of American Diplomacy: Print Revolution: Pamphlets, Persuasion, and the Path to Independence at the Pequot Library in Southport
Pequot Library 720 Pequot Avenue, FairfieldJan. 24 to May 2, 2026 In the decades leading up to the American Revolution, ideas of liberty, faith, and self-governance spread not just on battlefields but through the power of the written word. Print Revolution explores how pamphlets, broadsides, and sermons became the lifeblood of political and spiritual debate in colonial America. Works like Thomas Paine’s Common […]
The Idea of America: Reflections on Inequality, Democracy, and the Values We Share at The New York Historical
New York Historical 170 Central Park West, NYCFeaturing: Darren Walker, David M. Rubenstein (moderator) As the United States approaches its 250th birthday, the country is often cast under a shadow of extremes. Political polarities, seismic wealth disparity, and challenges to free speech and artistic expression all seem to paint a picture of an America that is unsure of the identity by which […]
$30 – $40Lawrence Lecture: “Reckoning with the US Empire” at Charles E. Shain Library Connecticut College
CONN College Olin Science Center 270 Mohegan Ave Pkwy, New LondonMoon-Ho Jung is the Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in Labor Studies in the Department of History at the University of Washington. He is the author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (2022), named one of Smithsonian Magazine’s Favorite Books of 2022. In Menace to Empire, Jung examines how the modern […]
Melissa Tantaquidgeon Zobel: Up and Down the River: A Mohegan History Film for America 250 at Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThis year’s theme is Freedom: The Victories, Promises, and Potentials of 1776. The speakers will explore the meaning of freedom in America, examining its historical implications for various segments of society, all from a local perspective. The plot of Up and Down the River follows the challenges faced by the Mohegan people, especially tribal women, living along the Massapequotuck (now called Thames) as […]
$15 – $20Marvin Espy: The African American Perspective of Celebrating the 250th at Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThis year’s theme is Freedom: The Victories, Promises, and Potentials of 1776. The speakers will explore the meaning of freedom in America, examining its historical implications for various segments of society, all from a local perspective. Understand the African American perspective of the promises and potential of the freedom offered in the Declaration of Independence, particularly through the lens of Juneteenth […]
$15 – $20Lecture: American Art at the Crossroads: WPA Realism to Postwar Abstraction at Fairfield University
Fairfield University Art Museum 200 Barlow Road, FairfieldJoin us for this lecture by Viviana Bucarelli, PhD, titled "American Art at the Crossroads: Between WPA Realism and Post-War Abstraction"! On February 26, art historian Viviana Bucarelli, PhD, will present a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition For Which It Stands..., exploring the turn from realism to abstraction in American art. This forms part of […]
Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism at the Beinecke Library at Yale
Beinecke Library 121 Wall Street, New HavenMarch 16–September 27, 2026 Marking the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism explores the complex ideological and political power of patriotism in the United States. Over time, conceptions of loyalty, allegiance, and national belonging have evolved, and patriotism has been likewise reimagined and reinvented through national conversations, policies, protests, and […]
Bev York: The Women’s Suffrage Movement at Lyman Allyn Museum
Lyman Allyn Art Museum 625 Williams Street, New LondonThis year’s theme is Freedom: The Victories, Promises, and Potentials of 1776. The speakers will explore the meaning of freedom in America, examining its historical implications for various segments of society, all from a local perspective. Bev York will introduce and share the stories and words of six suffragists from Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Alice Paul. She will […]
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