Margot Kohorn 1929-2020

With sorrow, we announce the passing of Margot Kohorn, CAAS Member and past CAAS Secretary

Margot Kohorn (nee Lytton) of Orange, Connecticut died on October 7, 2020. She was born September 9, 1929 in London, UK...

September 15, 2020 | Meeting 1481 | Presentations by Susan McCaslin, Soloman Maple, and Corina S. Alvarezdelugo

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Library privileges for those not Yale affiliated cancelled for fall semester 2020

Due to the pandemic, for fall semester 2020, Yale’s Sterling Library has rescinded borrowing privileges for everyone except...

February 19, 2020 | Meeting 1480 | African American Read-In

Read-In African-American Literature  Coordinated by Professor Gregory H. Tignor, CAAS President Emeritas

October 16, 2019 | Meeting 1477 | Sasha Turner, Ph.D. presents “The Forgotten Ones: Enslaved Women and Children and the British Campaigns to Abolish the Slave Trade”

This presentation draws upon Dr. Turner’s recently published book, Contested Bodies: Pregnancy Childrearing and Slavery in...
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November 13, 2019 | Meeting 1478 | Refugees and the Persecuted The past and present through the lens of one family’s history - presented by Ann M. Altman Ph.D.

With the frightening re-emergence of the racist and antisemitic far right and the strengthening of anti-immigrant and anti-...

January 14, 2020 | Meeting 1479 | Jonathan Wharton, Ph.D. presents “Constitution State Roulette: From Strong to Decentralized Party Bosses Before Connecticut’s 2018 Gubernatorial Election”

Dr. Jonathan L. Wharton, Associate Professor of Political Science and Urban Affairs at Southern Connecticut State University...