Daily Freeman on MSN

Kingston Colonial Days shed light on 18th-century history

Kingston Colonial Days was in full swing at the Matthewis Persen House Museum on Saturday morning, with the event showcasing traditions and cultural practices of the 18th century. The event, pitched ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN

Cold Weather and Apples Were Two Things the American Colonies Had. Industrious Scottish Immigrants Turned Them Into a Favorite Spirit

Applejack is not quite whiskey, but it’s stronger than cider, and it was treasured by some of the Founding Fathers. It’s ...
insider.si.edu

Archaeology of culture contact and colonialism in Spanish and Portuguese America / Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Maria Ximena Senatore, editors

1. Introduction: Disrupting the grand narrative of Spanish and Portuguese colonialism / Maria Ximena Senatore and Pedro Paulo A. Funari -- Part I: Posing questions in cultural contact and colonialism ...
The Nation Newspaper

Culture, colonialism and change

Nothing illustrates the good face of multicultural Britain and its colonial past better than the emergence of Rishi Sunak , a British Indian , to use his description of himself , as the new British PM ...
insider.si.edu

Independent museums and culture centres in colonial and post-colonial Zimbabwe non-state players, local communities and self-representation edited by Thomas Panganayi ...

"Independent Museums and Culture Centres in Colonial and Postcolonial Zimbabwe presents case studies that grapple with the issue of 'decolonising practice' in privately owned museums and cultural ...
The Harvard Crimson

Let’s Talk about Harvard’s Colonial Past and Present

Ariel G. Silverman ’23, a Social Studies concentrator, lives in Mather House. Her column appears on alternate Tuesdays. This past year marked the 50th anniversary of the Harvard University Native ...
Grist

The first Pacific Islander to win a National Book Award talks colonialism, culture, and climate

There’s a scene in Craig Santos Perez’s book of poems from an unincorporated territory [åmot] that feels eerily familiar. The author, an English professor at the University of Hawaiʻi, is walking ...
ecfr

Memory culture for Europe and Africa: A way to deal with the colonial past

This summer, after almost a decade of construction, the Humboldt Forum finally opened. This museum of art from outside Europe has moved into the rebuilt Berlin Palace, and was intended to be a grand ...
Berkshire Eagle

Colonial Theatre's 2023 winter/spring season packed with concerts and performances by David Sedaris, Colin Mochrie and Tom Rush

Berkshire Theatre Group's upcoming winter and spring season at the Colonial also includes The Berkshire Mountain Guitar Summit, Song and Dance! A Celebration of Women in the Berkshires, Rev Tor's 11th ...
CounterPunch

Why the U.S. Culture of Colonial Extraction Is Making People Sick and Destroying the Planet

A widespread culture of isolation and disconnection from our bodies, each other and the planet is negatively impacting the mental and physical health of people in America and beyond—and this was true ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Colonial Performing Arts Center in Keene secures $476,309 grant

KEENE, N.H. — The Colonial Performing Arts Center in Keene has been awarded a grant of $476,309 from the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC) through its Catalyst Program. This funding will be ...