Connecticut, past, present, and future
Subtitle: in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Contributors: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Series: Transactions / The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences ;; v. 56; Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences ;; v. 56.
Publisher: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences -- Congresses.; Connecticut -- Civilization -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Other titles: Connecticut
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Welcoming remarks / Franklin Robinson; title: Introduction to the morning session / H. Catherine W. Skinner; title: Lands discovered, lands transformed / Robert Gordon; title: Connecticut towns : risings and fallings / Christopher Collier; title: The women of Connecticut / Ruth Barnes Moynihan; title: Farming, good times and bad / Paul Waggoner; title: Benjamin Silliman's influence on nineteenth-century American science / Leonard G. Wilson; title: Contemporary challenges / David Gergen; title: The hyper-link between technology and the humanities in the twenty-first century / William Ferris; title: Images of the future for our time / Wendell Bell; title: Teaching and learning in the next millenium / Joseph L. Dionne; title: Lessons from the past : guide to the century ahead / Howard Lamar; title: A sampling of meteorites at half-century anniversaries of the Academy / Dorrit Hoffleit; title: The founding of the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, a personal recollection / David M. Wetstone.