Our History - Connecticut Explored

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New, though, is our burgeoning education department, begun with the publication of Where I Live: Connecticut in 2017 for grades 3 and 4 and Venture Smith’s Colonial Connecticut (2019) for grades 5 to 8. Those publications have earned us awards and attracted grant funding, so now we have a small but well-established education department. We are excited to be launching a Grade 2 curriculum project with support from the State Historic Preservation Office and the BFA-Rena Koopman Fund at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

To mark our 20th anniversary, the Board and staff of Connecticut Explored decided that instead of looking back (though you’ll find a story about how we came to be on page 14), we would look forward and explore the future of Connecticut history. We launched an initiative, supported by a Connecticut Humanities planning grant, to find 20 people who, and projects that, are advancing the way we study, interpret, and disseminate Connecticut history. We appointed an advisory team led by Dr. Fiona Vernal, UConn associate professor of history and Africana studies, that served as an independent jury. Team members included artist, producer, and Hartford History Center program manager Jasmin Agosto, co-founder of Akomawt Educational Initiative Chris Newell, executive director of New Haven Museum Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky, and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2021 National History Teacher of the Year Nataliya Braginsky of Metropolitan Business Academy in New Haven. Dr. Clarissa Ceglio, assistant professor of digital humanities in the Digital Media & Design Department at UConn and CTExplored board member, rounded out the team as board liaison. We are immensely thankful to this team for its thoughtful and insightful work. From a pool of 120 nominations submitted by members of the public in Fall 2021, the advisory team recommended the 20 Game Changers listed below.