A webinar on January 14, 2025 from 2-3:15 p.m.
Yankee Ingenuity: Meet the Organizations to Help Support your Archival Projects on a Shoestring
The landscape of America 250 in Connecticut is vast, and there is plenty of time for planning, researching, and preparing. The Revolutionary War continued until 1783, meaning events, exhibits, and programs can continue beyond the first year of commemoration in 2026.
Join members of the Connecticut State Historical Records Advisory Board (CT SHRAB) for an information session packed with ideas for using existing resources and your archives to commemorate America 250 in Connecticut.
We will start with a survey of the landscape of which Connecticut-based organizations are doing what to help you with planning and funding, and then discuss ways you can include commemorative events on your programing calendar while being clever and mindful of your resources and time! We will then allow space for questions and discussion with our panel and with your fellow attendees.
Attend this virtual event with friends and colleagues!
This program is presented by the Connecticut State Historical Records Advisory Board, Conservation ConneCTion, and the Connecticut League of Museums with a grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.
Program Resources
Resource document from the October 2024 program at Greenwich Historical Society includes online sources for researching the American REvolution in Connecticut. Click here.
Using Archives to Uncover Untold Stories from the American Revolution
An in-person program at the Greenwich Historical Society, 47 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT
October 30, 2024
10 am – 3 pm
Registrations due October 23, 2024
If you are starting to plan your institution’s commemoration of America 250, or realizing you should, this program is for you.
Join us at the Greenwich Historical Society as members of the Connecticut State Historical Records Advisory Board, archivists throughout the state who work together to preserve and expand access to the historic records, share their expertise and information on how to use your archives, archives in Connecticut and online resources to uncover untold stories from your community during the American Revolution. In addition, participants will learn about the resources available through Connecticut’s America 250 commission.
Program participants will receive a curator-led tour of the exhibition at the Greenwich Historical Society, Greenwich During the Revolution: A Frontier Town on the Front Line with special emphasis on how archive collections were used to present new perspectives on the Revolutionary War. Tours will also be provided of the Historical Society’s James Stevenson & Josie Merck Stevenson Library & Archives.
This program is presented by the Connecticut State Historical Records Advisory Board, Conservation ConneCTion, Connecticut League of Museums and the Greenwich Historical Society with a grant from the National Historic Publications & Records Commission.
Learn more about CT SHRAB at https://ctstatelibrary.org/state-archives/connecticut-state-historical-records-advisory-board/
