Celebrate America 250 in New Haven

Date

Event

Venue

Address

Ongoing–Oct 11
Keeping Alive the Remembrance: Commemorating America’s Founding 1776–1876
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Feb 5
Collecting America: Luther, de Lancey Kountze, and Francis P. Garvan
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Feb 9
Presentation on Black History Moments
Mitchell Library
37 Harrison Street
Feb 11
Stitches of America: A Family Quilt
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Feb 12
Black Inventors Who Made the Stuff Around Us
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
Feb 25
Memory of ’76
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
Feb 26
Unsung Heroes
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
Mar 1
Women’s History Event (focused on labor)
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
Mar 11
America 250 for Teens: The Revolutionary War in Connecticut
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
Mar 14
Memory Mapping NH: Picture Plotting Workshops
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
Mar 16
200 Years of Jewish Presence in New Haven
Mitchell Library
37 Harrison Street
Mar 16–Sep 27
Unfurling the Flag: Reflections on American Patriotism
Beinecke Library
121 Wall Street
Mar 19
A Black Soldier’s Revolutionary War Experience
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
Mar 26
Visit by author Chris Newell (If You Lived During the American Revolution)
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
Mar 26–28
First America: The Legacies of the Declaration of Independence for Native Nations
Yale University Art Gallery
1111 Chapel Street
Mar 26
Homegrown Terror: Benedict Arnold and the Burning of New London
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
Mar 28
Lecture by textile expert Lynne Basset
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
Mar 28
Conducting oral histories
Wilson Library
303 Washington Avenue
Mar 29
1776
Yale Film Archive (Humanities Quadrangle L02)
320 York Street
Apr 8–9
Democracy, Civic Education, and the American Archive
Beinecke Library & Sterling Memorial Library
121 Wall Street; 120 High Street
Apr 11
Conducting oral histories
Wilson Library
303 Washington Avenue
Apr 12
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yale Film Archive (Humanities Quadrangle L02)
320 York Street
Apr 13
Presentation on maps established in the 18th century
Mitchell Library
37 Harrison Street
Apr 16
Mohegan Stories: An Exploration of Native Heritage
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
Apr 18
The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night that Saved America
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
Apr 18
Lecture by author Michael Langlois (From Liberty to Legacy)
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
Apr 19
Roger Sherman’s birthday (Grove Street Cemetery + Beinecke display)
Grove Street Cemetery & Beinecke Library
121 Wall Street
Apr 21
America History Trivia Night
Wilson Library
303 Washington Avenue
Apr 24
Nashville
Yale Film Archive (Humanities Quadrangle L02)
320 York Street
Apr 27
Talk about a map from 1784
Mitchell Library
37 Harrison Street
Apr 30
Wicked New Haven
Fair Haven Library
182 Grand Avenue
May–Ongoing
New Haven’s Unfinished Revolutions
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
May 1
Bound for Glory
Yale Film Archive (Humanities Quadrangle)
320 York Street
May 2
Orchestra New England celebrates America 250 (concert)
Battell Chapel
400 College Street
May 9
Memory Mapping in New Haven Talkback Café (show and tell)
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
May 13
Slaves in Connecticut
Stetson Library
197 Dixwell Avenue
May 16
250 in the Hill walking tour
Wilson Library
303 Washington Avenue
May 20
How Cotton and the Tobacco Industry Built the Foundation of America Through Slavery
Wilson Library
303 Washington Avenue
May 27
Historical Facts: Black Dixwell Neighborhood
Stetson Library
197 Dixwell Avenue
May 28
Connecticut’s Forgotten Relationship with the High Seas
Fair Haven Library
182 Grand Avenue
May 30
250 in the Hill walking tour
Wilson Library
303 Washington Avenue
Jun 4
Connecticut’s Culinary Landscape: Migration and Entrepreneurship Panel
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
Jun 7
Home & Belonging and the House on Mango Street
Beinecke Library
121 Wall Street
Jun 8–Nov 8
An Artists’ America
Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library
190 York Street
Jun 11
Grover Cleveland’s Rubber Jaw (presidential trivia)
Fair Haven Library
182 Grand Avenue
Jun 13
Rooted in Place: 250 Years Through New Haven’s Lens

New Haven Free Public Library

(Location TBD)

Jun 14
America 250: Democracy in Action (Arts & Ideas idea series)
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
Jun 17
The Fight to Set a People Free
Pardee-Morris House
325 Lighthouse Road
Jun 21
Queens of the Culture: Women in Hip-Hop (Arts & Ideas idea series)
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
Jun 28
Whose America? Perspectives on Identity and Belonging (Arts & Ideas idea series)
New Haven Museum
114 Whitney Avenue
Jun 28
What a Glorious Crash They Made (Revolutionary War music)
Pardee-Morris House
325 Lighthouse Road
Jul 4
Gathering at the graves of Roger Sherman and David Humphreys
Grove Street Cemetery
227 Grove Street
Jul 4
Fireworks from East Rock Park
East Rock Park

41 Cold Spring

Jul 5

Coastal Raids Tour

Pardee-Morris House
325 Lighthouse Road
Jul 8
Recitation of the Declaration of Independence and related texts
Beinecke Library
121 Wall Street
Jul 10–11
Dr. Fred Smith, Playwright, Be Your Own Hero
Dixwell Community House
197 Dixwell Avenue
Jul 19
John Adams portrayed by George Baker
Pardee-Morris House
325 Lighthouse Road
Jul 23

Discussion on Connecticut Revolutionary War Records

Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street
Aug 16
Women’s Trades (with Emily Stringham of At the Sign of the Golden Scissors)
Pardee-Morris House
325 Lighthouse Road
Sep 10
Discussion of Black women in the American Revolution
Ives Main Library
133 Elm Street