Category Archives: Humanities

A Giving Tuesday Story: Capital’s Guide To Grammar Inspires A Gift From Georgia

Posted on November 30, 2021 by @ Capital

“I went to those webpages on Grammar, and I found a major resource that is open to the world…free to anyone who wants to learn English.  What a gift to Mankind!” Jim Satterfield, Canton, Georgia In 1996 Professor Emeritus Charles … Continue reading →

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Back To The Future: Campus News from 30 Years Ago

Posted on March 28, 2021 by @ Capital

The May 1991 issue of The Correspondent, “the newsletter of Greater Hartford Community College”, provides a look back at academic and student life one year before Greater Hartford Community College would change its name. In 1992, GHCC would merge with … Continue reading →

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Capital Community College Gets NEH Grant For Black History Focusing On Historic Downtown Church

Posted on December 18, 2020 by @ Capital

Capital Community College (CCC) is the recipient of a $149,426 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant focusing on the history and people of Hartford’s historic Talcott Street Church and Black School. The Humanities Initiative award, part of Capital’s Hartford … Continue reading →

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Professor Emerita Evelyn Farbman Brings Her “Sentence Sense” To Digital Learning And Back To Capital

Posted on April 9, 2019 by @ Capital

Professor Emerita Evelyn Farbman taught English and writing classes for 25 years at Capital Community College, instructing a generation of traditional and non traditional students in composition and the basics of writing well. Farbman’s lesson plans on sentence structure and … Continue reading →

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Local History: Hartford’s “Forgotten Legacy” Of Painting And Sculpture Topic At April 26th Public Lecture

Posted on April 8, 2018 by @ Capital

“A Forgotten Legacy: The Hartford Art World, 1800-1950” is the topic of  a fourth local history lecture at Capital Community College on Thursday, April 26th. The lecture, free and open to the public, is the last of four talks in … Continue reading →

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Local History: Philanthropy, 19th Century Hartford Are Topics At Capital Community College Public Lecture March 22nd

Posted on March 8, 2018 by @ Capital

Trinity College’s Andrew Walsh, Ph.D, will present an illustrated lecture entitled “‘For Our City’s Welfare’ : Protestants, Philanthropy and the Contest Over Local Identity in 19th Century Hartford” on Thursday, March 22nd, at Capital Community College (CCC). The lecture, open … Continue reading →

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Local History: Lecture Series Begins January 25th At Capital’s Centinel Hill Hall Auditorium

Posted on January 14, 2018 by @ Capital

Historian William Hosley will lead off Capital Community College’s Hartford Studies Lecture and Discussion Series on Thursday evening January 25th at the 950 Main Street at historic Centinel Hill Hall auditorium on the campus. The public lecture, focusing on the … Continue reading →

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Remembering Professor Darling: His Guide To Grammar Still Reaches Millions With Online Writing Help

Posted on January 4, 2018 by @ Capital

In 1996 Professor Charles Darling created an online instructional guide for his creative writing and literature classes at Capital Community College (CCC). Dr. Darling,  the author of several books of poetry, wanted to create a place where his students could … Continue reading →

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Humanities Chair Jeff Partridge Appointed To State Historic Preservation Council

Posted on July 6, 2016 by @ Capital

Jeffrey F.L. Partridge, Ph.D, Capital Community College’s Chair of Humanities, has been appointed a member of the Connecticut Historic Preservation Council by Governor Dannel P. Malloy. Partridge, an English professor and Director of the College’s Hartford Heritage Project, was appointed to the … Continue reading →

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Hartford Heritage: American Lit Course Returns To Twain, Stowe Houses In Fall 2016

Posted on June 15, 2016 by @ Capital

Capital Community College’s American Literature course (English 220) will return to the historic Mark Twain House & Museum and Harriet Beecher Stowe Center  in Hartford’s West End in the fall of 2016. Launched last year through the college’s Hartford Heritage … Continue reading →

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