Trinity Banter | SMM | Activity https://commons.trincoll.edu/members/smarkle/activity/ Activity feed for SMM. Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:29:28 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=9.2.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7743e7629b30db0b3cede9a64318fdce SMM and Fenty, Matthew C. (2023) are now friends https://commons.trincoll.edu/activity/p/24059/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 18:49:21 -0500 0 b35442f96db23cfaa1b9bbe2d694ac30 SMM and Cundiff, Taylor R. (2023) are now friends https://commons.trincoll.edu/activity/p/24058/ Mon, 16 Dec 2019 17:24:55 -0500 0 03d3dee08172e7d889a8b5818a205569 SMM and Curry, Isaiah M. (2023) are now friends https://commons.trincoll.edu/activity/p/24045/ Sun, 15 Dec 2019 23:43:29 -0500 0 c4f49a33077e971fcd550e18c2eed2f4 SMM and Armistead, Kyla S. (2023) are now friends https://commons.trincoll.edu/activity/p/24033/ Fri, 13 Dec 2019 01:45:44 -0500 0 4d97a0cb4b6949b26789162971172c32 SMM wrote a new post, History Department Welcomes Clark L. Alejandrino, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1956 Sun, 08 Sep 2019 18:06:39 -0400 Faculty members of Trinity’s History Department are very excited to welcome Dr. Clark Alejandrino as the new Assistant Professor of Chinese History. According to his faculty profile, “after finishing his u […]

]]> 7bd3643cd027f1d17d2228e77e175152 SMM wrote a new post, Bankwitz Lecture: "From Privy to the Statistical Archive", on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1782 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:45:00 -0500 By Brendan W. Clark ’21

Editor; History Major

The annual C.F. Bankwitz Lecture this year featured Barbara Ann Naddeo from the City College of New York presenting “From the Privy to the Statistical A […]

]]> 2b5d47a5c9240b39db86b1acbc4c7026 SMM wrote a new post, Bankwitz Lecture: Galanti as a Historical Source, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1775 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:36:52 -0500 By Tess Meagher ’20 

Editor; History Major

On Thursday, November 16, the Trinity College History Department held its Annual Philip C. F. Bankwitz Lecture. This year’s speaker was Professor Barbara Ann Na […]

]]> e0cd9fb4f0dd0076130fe1f87066dfa7 SMM wrote a new post, Professor Kassow and Who Will Write Our History?, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1771 Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:33:41 -0500  

By Brendan W. Clark ’21

Editor; History Major 

Samuel Kassow, the Charles H. Northam Professor of History and a member of the Trinity College History Department since 1972 is presently involved in s […]

]]> c582dc066b53c2d6ae235890cb9bbcd2 SMM wrote a new post, Lecture Recap: African Americans & Classical Education after the Civil War, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1765 Fri, 10 Nov 2017 18:42:52 -0500  

By Tess Meagher ’20

Editor; History Major

In coordination with the History Department, the Trinity College Classics department hosted its annual Moore Lecture on November Ninth during common hour. […]

]]> e96133ae9032c981d5833dc88f0c948a SMM wrote a new post, Senior Thesis Profile: Christopher Bulfinch, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1758 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 22:04:27 -0500  

 

 

 

By Brendan W. Clark ’21

Editor; History Major

About the Thesis Writer: Christopher Bulfinch ’18 is a senior history major and thesis writer. Chris came to Trinity knowing that he wa […]

]]> 3ba18a4e18f7be5bf55c303ada5ff3d6 SMM wrote a new post, American Periodicals: History on a Page, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1755 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 21:58:22 -0500 Written By: Tess Meagher (History Class of 2020)

Want to see original publications of American authors, not in books, but in periodicals? Interested in understanding the media culture of a time period? All of […]

]]> ca2e69d7a915d0fb288f6513d868cbf4 SMM wrote a new post, The History of Elm Trees at Trinity, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1751 Tue, 07 Nov 2017 21:53:42 -0500 By Brendan W. Clark ’21

History Major

Neath the Ashes: Revisiting the Veracity of Trinity’s Alma Matter in the Present Day
Alumni and present students of Trinity alike will recall fondly their jovial e […]

]]> 4ca3a214b3f8d4e4ce3300309bb6fc37 SMM wrote a new post, Mead Lecture: "The Reinventions of Tradition: Writing Damascus in the Long 16th Century", on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1744 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 18:06:40 -0400 I found Professor Sadji’s lecture and work The Barber of Damascus to be very dense and informative. In her lecture, Professor Sadji examines the city of Damascus in the 17th century, which she proves to be a t […]

]]> e72c96619911866d0d86b0f87c0d3600 SMM wrote a new post, The Return of Time Travel?, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1740 Tue, 02 May 2017 21:54:08 -0400 By: Callie Prince (History ’17)

Like many other history nerds, I am fascinated with the idea of time travel. Whether in books, movies or my imagination, there always seems to be an endless number of […]

]]> 337e3f0e231084a38e4f2335358ec550 SMM wrote a new post, A Response to the 2017 Wassong Lecture: “Trigger Crimes & Social Progress: The Tragedy-Outrage-Reform Dynamic in America”, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1736 Tue, 02 May 2017 21:48:09 -0400 By Callie Prince (History ’17)

This past week I attended the 2017 Wassong Lecture in European and American Art, Culture, and History, a lecture organized every year by the interdisciplinary studies […]

]]> 0891e7e15f920a0566ab27fadc8e1b69 SMM wrote a new post, Friday Night With the Yard Goats, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1727 Tue, 02 May 2017 21:43:10 -0400 By: James Barrett (IDP, History ’17)

Hartford Yard Goat drama has been well documented in the past few years. The issues stemmed from many missed construction deadlines, as well as the stadium being nearly 10 […]

]]> 55f6240b4e6d7864fbc0c4902fefc48b SMM wrote a new post, History and Property Values: Charlestown, Mass, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1720 Tue, 02 May 2017 21:38:07 -0400 By: James Barrett (IDP, History ’17)

Last weekend my girlfriend and I spent the weekend in Boston. We stayed with her mom who has just recently moved to Charlestown and on Sunday morning we decided to take a […]

]]> dd630533192c8218760d77ef3869cad2 SMM wrote a new post, History, Identity, and Traveling: A Reflection on 2017’s McGill Lecturer, Santiago Gamboa, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1712 Tue, 02 May 2017 21:28:54 -0400 Chelsey Crabbe (History ‘17)

In his lecture, “The Art of Narration and Travel Writing (a Latin American Writer in India)”,weaved an inspiring tale about the realities of his profession as both an indiv […]

]]> 2ab28702550fd34aaf4e2d36fabdf4fc SMM wrote a new post, Introducing History Faculty Member Lauren Caldwell, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1709 Tue, 02 May 2017 20:10:55 -0400 I’m Lauren Caldwell, new faculty member in History and Classics. Some of you may know me from my course this spring, HIST 116, Rise and Fall of Roman Empire.  I also teach language courses (ancient Greek and L […]

]]> 5f93ffb4f2261c1ee3b0cbc9c616d98b SMM wrote a new post, The Life of Yergeny Yevfushenko, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1705 Mon, 01 May 2017 23:11:02 -0400 By: Dylan Hebert (History ’17)

One of the great Russian poets of the twentieth century, Yevgeny Yevtushenko died in Tulsa, Oklahoma on April 1st of this year at the age of eighty-three. A descendent of […]

]]> 4080000130dc0b7f5244813151698aa6 SMM wrote a new post, Student Major Profile: Interview with Seth Browner, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1694 Mon, 01 May 2017 23:00:37 -0400 By Chelsey Crabbe (History, ‘17)

This week, I wanted to spend some time getting to know our fellow a little better hoping that I could give some much-deserved publicity to a well-respected peer of mine to the r […]

]]> 5bbe805825ceac59892a39c3252ed0a2 SMM wrote a new post, So You Majored in History?: A Personal Reflection, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1684 Mon, 01 May 2017 22:44:06 -0400 By: Callie Prince (History ’17)

I knew I wanted to be a History major in college before I had even decided which school to attend. I pictured myself taking classes only relating to my favorite subject, 20th […]

]]> 39ffde156f4b7eb5aabd10af0b9143c7 SMM wrote a new post, Study Away: Studying History at Irkutsk State University, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1679 Mon, 01 May 2017 22:36:58 -0400 By: Dylan Hebert (History ’17)

Studying abroad in Irkutsk, a small industrial city in Eastern Siberia, one of my greatest and most rewarding challenges, was taking a mainstream history class with Russian […]

]]> aa89cb85c13c01b3101c2060ddb8602c SMM wrote a new post, Job Hunting With a Trinity History Degree, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1674 Mon, 01 May 2017 22:26:23 -0400 By: James Barrett (IDP, History, ’17)

Job hunting is the worst. I don’t think it is going too far out on a limb to say that there is nothing good about it (other than the possible euphoria one feels when t […]

]]> dd88dbb4e55e3268ed468f23cc366a7c SMM wrote a new post, Visiting Lenin in Red Square, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1670 Thu, 27 Apr 2017 15:02:25 -0400 By: Dylan Hebert (History ’17)

Vladimir Lenin may have died on January 21st, 1924, but to this day, his body remains on display in the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square. Lenin himself wanted to be buried at St. […]

]]> d995cd704f8ce8bbedc34299e0073094 SMM wrote a new post, Belgorod, Russia: Visiting the Battle of Kursk Museum, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1574 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:47:58 -0400 From February 16-23rd I was part of a USA hip hop delegation (‘Under the Curtain’) to Russia due to my role as a faculty advisor to the Trinity Chapter of Temple of Hip and the annual Trinity International Hip […]

]]> 594564b1c1e78188dfcefd83fdfa13f6 SMM wrote a new post, History Department's Senior Thesis Presentations 2016-2017, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1661 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:34:52 -0400 This academic year, the History Department has nine honor thesis writers. Elizabeth, Sedona, Callie, Dylan, Elm, Chelsey, Eleanor, Seth and Andrew will be presenting on their research on Wednesday, May 3, […]

]]> 42b084bd92587525cd4ff6d78d81c36e SMM wrote a new post, A Historic Tour of Hartford: A Bucket List, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1646 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 13:32:43 -0400 By: Chelsey Crabbe (History ‘17)

As a senior inching towards graduation, I’m realizing that my friends and I still have not fully experienced Hartford. There are restaurants, events, and places still to be […]

]]> d85b64ce3cc87cbfb0924b43dfdb0777 SMM wrote a new post, D.B. Cooper and the Hijacking of Northwest Airlines flight 305, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1641 Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:59:26 -0400 By: James Barret (History ’17)

For my final paper in ‘HIST 344: America’s Most Wanted’ taught by Professor Greenberg (a course that all history majors should take), I will be writing about D.B Cooper’s inf […]

]]> bb5b56783e5c11b0254879e5324275bc SMM wrote a new post, Event: Trashion Fashion: How Can Trash and Creativity Change the World?, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1637 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:21:10 -0400

]]> ca7cbab929a55b9916bdc61a2b976e70 SMM wrote a new post, A Commitment to Advocacy: A Profile of Laura Lockwood and WGRAC at Trinity College, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1625 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:05:39 -0400 Written by: Caille Prince (History, Class of 2017)

March and April are important months for WGRAC. The Women Gender and Resource Action Center wears many hats on campus but is known as a safe space for all. The […]

]]> 24a6f5dd53c45214a09654c8afa3c583 SMM wrote a new post, "My Senior Thesis and its Portrayal in Pop Culture", on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1620 Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:36:58 -0400 Chelsey Crabbe ‘17

I am a senior Thesis writer whose topic has been portrayed within a Hollywood movie, a scenario that even clouded my own judgment after watching the film. I am researching the M […]

]]> 943096e9c45d749c3471a2990ec5fb76 SMM wrote a new post, Members of Trinity Community Travel to Russia for Hip-Hop Cultural Exchange Program, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1614 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:51:21 -0400 Written by: Molly Thoms ’17

Hartford, Connecticut, March 20, 2017 – This year will mark the 12th annual Trinity International Hip-Hop Festival, an event that brings to campus hip-hop artists from around the […]

]]> fe689ed02a1984f9fe8711fe2ee3a4a5 SMM wrote a new post, The Future is Female! Profiles of the Women Senior Thesis Writers of 2017, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1597 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:01:13 -0400 Written by: Chelsea Crabbe (History, 2017)

In honor of Women History Month, I’ve decided to write a little bit about our female thesis writers, including myself. As Viginia Woolf insightfully claimed, “for mos […]

]]> 286cbc175c30ddd549065d6e77134b31 SMM wrote a new post, Spring Break in Iceland, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1592 Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:44:58 -0400 Written by: James Barrett (IDP, History, Class of 2017)

Spring Break trips take many forms. Many Trinity students opt to escape the dreary March weather for a tropical paradise. Some head North to Vermont […]

]]> dd7c5399f4fc90c7438f324f1731e33c SMM wrote a new post, Guten Tag, Wein! Studying Abroad in Vienna, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1568 Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:40:00 -0500 Written by: Callie Prince (History, Class of 2017)

I was in High School when I decided that I wanted to study abroad. I had just returned from a Holocaust Study Tour, a trip that still inspires me today […]

]]> 033b97c24e9fd17e1cab886ccb8b255c SMM wrote a new post, My European Experience, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1556 Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:11:41 -0500 Written by: Tyler Wren (History, Class of 2019)

I am ever so grateful to the history department for the opportunity to travel to and study in Europe. Their sponsoring of my attendance in the new J-term […]

]]> 1ece7ae958e9d9f4b467b071a9faef82 SMM wrote a new post, Project 1917, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1563 Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:01:10 -0500 Written by: Dylan Hebert (History, Class of 2017)

“1917. Free History” is a project that presents the events of 1917 in the form of social media. The stated goal of the project is to “enable parti […]

]]> 16f596f939d63f8b2b504223c19d3571 SMM wrote a new post, Highway Problems?: A Brief History of The I-84 Project, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1549 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 20:31:52 -0500 Written by: James Barrett (History, IDP, Class of 2017)

It is a difficult task to imagine a world without highways. Every city, big and small, has multiple routes in and out. This is nothing new of course, […]

]]> 1e08fb4055db7a0a241755b51aac08b1 SMM wrote a new post, Studying History in Cape Town, South Africa, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1536 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:40:38 -0500 Written by: Chelsey Crabbe (History, Class of 2017)

I never thought that I could come to love a place as much as Cape Town, South Africa. Having arrived back home over a year ago, the memories I made in […]

]]> 75e318f971da2b10bba1dd1101c1eec7 SMM wrote a new post, Celebrating Black History Month at Trinity College, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1531 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:35:06 -0500 Written by: Callie Prince (History, Class of 2017)

As students return from long winter breaks, the end of January seems a bleak and uncelebrated time. While walking through unplowed snow to eat at Mather once […]

]]> bc3f567aaf648329f34670787dd77dc1 SMM wrote a new post, Trekking the Tamang Heritage Trail: A J-Term Course, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1534 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:33:09 -0500 Written by: Michael Lestz, Associate Professor of History

In January 2017 twenty-two students and faculty from Trinity College took part in an eighteen-day trek along the Tamang Heritage Trail in the […]

]]> 0f70b3f3a6343a3936d3ff5410cf4693 SMM wrote a new post, Celebrating Black History Month: Connecticut's Paul Robeson, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1526 Fri, 24 Feb 2017 19:16:22 -0500 Written by: Dylan Hebert (History, Class of 2017)

Known as the most talented man of the twentieth century, Paul Robeson is famous for his role as a prominent singer, actor, social activist, athlete, and lawyer. […]

]]> f96c24e8f85539aa2a425494c03f0078 SMM wrote a new post, Where Do Historians Work? A Look at the Data, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1522 Thu, 09 Feb 2017 17:39:21 -0500 “Based on the ground-breaking “The Many Careers of History PhDs,” the AHA has gathered data from more than 30 departments that grant history PhDs. Using this information, we have created the only interactive, […]

]]> ed94e9acb82a6f1591244b572e23bb82 SMM wrote a new post, "Hartford Hip Hop: Then and Now", on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1516 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 19:43:07 -0400 A Conversation on hip hop in Hartford during the 1980s-1990s and how the culture has evolved to the present featuring Empress Nijuabi, a Hartford based emcee who was a member of the pioneering hip hop group […]

]]> 40d3d094c3c714f33c91ea4d241e8b8e SMM wrote a new post, "Headstrong": A Photo Exhibit on the Haitian Diaspora in Hartford, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1503 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:58:40 -0400 By Sara Kippur, Associate Professor, Language and Culture Studies

As part of my first-year seminar course on “Francophone Hartford,” and with the immense help and guidance of Professor Pablo Delano (Studio […]

]]> b0c889265ae128064f25be1c9db4a596 SMM wrote a new post, "Warsaw Ghetto's Secret Archive Goes Hollywood", on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1500 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:47:06 -0400 “By the time Serena Kassow appeared in a film about the Warsaw ghetto’s secret archive, she had heard about “the most important untold story of the Holocaust” for the better part of her life. As the daugh […]

]]> 255e878a3386dfa2360bf717a1393313 SMM wrote a new post, The Annual Philip C.F. Bankwitz Lecture: Money, History and the French Revolution, on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1489 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:35:28 -0400 On Thursday, November 3, 4:30pm (Reese Room, Smith House): The History Department will be sponsoring its annual Philip C.F. Bankwitz Lecture titled, “Money, History and the French Revolution” featuring […]

]]> af7c28fb1ab0986004a97b19db7d5778 SMM wrote a new post, "A Homecoming Talk" with Ben Barber (Class of 1965), on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1479 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:35:15 -0400

]]> ed03020b193ab457967819e4cb26b01e SMM wrote a new post, "Education for Life" with Paul Raether (Class of '68; History major), on the site History @ Trinity http://commons.trincoll.edu/historyblog/?p=1494 Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:34:59 -0400 “Education for Life: How My History Major and Broad Liberal Arts Experience at Trinity Prepared Me for Wall Street and for Life” with Paul Raether in conversation with Jason Kelly, New York Bureau Chief, […]

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