Connecticut in the Civil War--Institute for Learning In Retirment (ILR) Albertus Magnus College

Post date: Sep 6, 2012 4:31:27 PM

Session Dates: This is a three session program

Tuesday, October 9, 2012; Tuesday; October 16, 2012; Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Time: 1:30 – 3:00

Location: Albertus Magnus College, Aquinas Hall

Program Description: This three session program explores the experiences of Connecticut in the Civil War. The sessions utilize primary source documents, correspondence, contemporary new paper articles, photographs that explore the experiences of Connecticut men and women during the American Civil War. The first session presents learners with a genealogical workshop that demonstrating how to utilize technology, primary documents and resources to create a biographical experience/history of individuals and events. Utilizing methods and research techniques from the first session, the second session presents the correspondence of a husband, serving in the 20^th Connecticut and his wife from Derby, Connecticut and explores the home front and the battlefield through their eyes. The third session, again utilizes methodologies from the first session, and provides learners with an understanding of the war and its events and themes from correspondence of four tent mates and comrades from the 17^th Connecticut Volunteers to their families at home in Connecticut. The third program received a 2011 Award of Merit from the Connecticut League of History Organizations for educational programming. Throughout the sessions local and national themes of the conflict, consensus, patriotism, Civil War home front and battlefield are explored. Through the lives, struggles, and accomplishments of ordinary Connecticut men and women, events of the American Civil War and American society, and the theme of a nation at war with itself is witnessed.