On January 11, 1817, Timothy Dwight (theologian, educator, poet, and eighth president of Yale) died in New Haven, Connecticut.
ReadRare for his time, educator James Morris accepted both boys and girls as students.
ReadTimothy Dwight was an influential preacher, poet, and educator who served as a chaplain during the Revolutionary War and later as the president of Yale College.
ReadThe story of the Foreign Mission School connects the town of Cornwall, Connecticut, to a larger, national religious fervor that preoccupied the United States during the Second Great Awakening.
ReadEventually taking the name the “Hartford Wits,” influential figures of the 18th century got together to write poetry that documented the state of the times.
ReadIdeals advanced during the American Revolution inspired many of the state’s religious and political leaders to question and oppose slavery in the late 1700s.
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