John Mills recaps the Mary & Thaddeus Newton gravesite celebration and the work the Alex Breanne Corporation performed in pulling it together.
This is an in-person lecture by John Mills that occurred on May 29th, 2024 at Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall located on the campus of Yale University.
On Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 4:00 pm, John Mills gave a lecture at the Stanley-Whitman House in Farmington.
Hidden History May 2024 Workshop focusing aimed at historical societies and the stories they tell. The subject matter focuses on Blacks in the American Revolutionary time period, and the paradox of freedom as tied to America250.
John Mills, President and founder of the Alex Breanne Corporation, speaks on the fourth day of the Declaring Freedom series at Central Connecticut State University. The event was sponsored by the Association for the Study of Connecticut History.
Three phenomenal Scholars will share this fascinating history and their remarkable work to reclaim and highlight Black Narratives from Black Descendants. The event will be moderated by Tammy Denease, Outreach Director for the Connecticut Freedom Trail.
This is a lecture, film screenings & discussion regarding Connecticut's 29th & 30th Colored Regiments during the Civil War. It occurred on February 4th, 2024 at the Avon Senior Citizen Center and was hosted by the Avon Historical Society.
Guest speaker John Mills, a Genealogist and President/Founder of the Alex Breanne Corporation, will share his research to include unknown stories of enslaved individuals into the landscape of our communities and his own family’s history of slavery.
Individuals of Connecticut’s Colored Regiments - Nov. 9, 2023 - with John Mills.
John Mills lecture held at Old New Gate Prison in East Granby, CT on September 18th, 2022.
This was a lecture for Northwestern University in Evanston, IL on June 24th, 2022.
John Mills’ lecture brings to light the largely untold story of Prince Mortimer while also evaluating the ripple effects of a past time. Mills traces his personal path in discovering his ties to slavery, what it revealed about himself, and the challenges he would eventually face in attempting to find the burial locations of his ancestors – marrying his own experiences and revelations to that of Connecticut’s Prince Mortimer.
John Mills’ lecture brings to light the largely untold story of Prince Mortimer while also evaluating the ripple effects of a past time. Mills traces his personal path in discovering his ties to slavery, what it revealed about himself, and the challenges he would eventually face in attempting to find the burial locations of his ancestors – marrying his own experiences and revelations to that of Connecticut’s Prince Mortimer.