The Loyalist Legacy: Martha Codman Karolik’s Ancestry, Collecting, and Nationalism

WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

Discover how one prominent New England woman's look at her family history was entangled with gender, nationalism, race, memory, and the Colonial Revival. Historian MaryKate Smolenski examines how and why loyalism to the Crown, which divided families and communities during the American Revolution, was edited out of the picture in the 1920s.

WDS Book Club

WDS Museum 211 Main Street, Wethersfield, CT

Calling all bookworms, history buffs, preservationists and culture mavens! Join us for our NEW year-long book club, accompanied by a lecture series with acclaimed authors.

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