Eastern History Club Student Erin Strickland of Gales Ferry Attends Conference

2015 Mar 19

Members of the History Club attended the fall conference of the New England Historical Association at Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire during the fall 2014 semester.

Erin Strickland '14 of Gales Ferry, CT, was one of the attendees. Strickland's major is History and Social Science and Spanish.

The History Club members attended the conference with Professors Roland Clark and Dominic DeBrincat. As part of the conference Miles Wilkerson, an Eastern History major, presented a paper about the role of CIA-sponsored terrorism in restricting civil liberties in Castro's Cuba.

Professor DeBrincat spoke about how the courts shaped Connecticut's maritime economy during the colonial period. The History Club played an active part in conference discussions and discussing important historical problems.