The HRC thanks Anne Farrow for serving as guest author for the following entry. Anne is the senior content editor for the Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online, a project of the Connecticut Humanities Council. Formerly a career journalist, Anne co-authored Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery. She is currently at work on a new book about slavery and memory. The glossy marble floors and columns of America's august history museums are...




The HRC thanks Amanda C. Burdan for serving as guest author for the following entry. Amanda is the George B. Tatum Curatorial Fellow at the Florence Griswold Museum. She recently curated the exhibitions "Sewell Sillman: Pushing Limits" as well as "The Road Less Traveled: Thomas Nason's Rural New England." As the Museum's scholar-in-residence, Amanda teaches the Museum's popular Winter Studies courses and researches the Museum's collections, presenting findings in both exhibition catalogues and lively gallery...
The HRC thanks Marcie Charest for serving as guest author for the following entry. Marcie has worked in the education field for fifteen years, including the past eight years in museum education. Marcie is currently Director of Interpretation at the Stanley-Whitman House and Manager of School & Family Programs at the Hill-Stead Museum, both in Farmington, CT. Previously she worked as a classroom teacher and as head of education programs at the Lutz Children's Museum....
