Grating the Nutmeg

225. On Trial: Alfred Marder and Catherine Roraback - A Communist’s Arrest in 1950’s McCarthy-era New Haven (10th Anniversary Encore Release)

Feb 15, 2026

Grating the Nutmeg is 10 years old! In celebration of our 10^th anniversary, we are bringing you a remastered and re-edited edition of an episode we recorded in 2016 at the New Haven Museum with Alfred Marder, Judge Andrew Roraback and his father Charles Roraback. This compelling first-person interview with Alfred...

224. Scholar, Activist, Trailblazer: The Enduring Legacy of Dr. Lorenzo Greene

Jan 30, 2026

Connecticut is a small state that has had a huge national impact. In this episode, we celebrate someone that we are proud to say was born in Connecticut and went on to be a pioneering historian in Black history. Dr. Lorenzo Johnston Greene received his BA in from Howard University in 1924, his MA from Columbia...

223. The ‘Great Temperance Times’ in Nineteenth-Century Black Connecticut

Jan 14, 2026

At first glance, alcohol and racial equality might seem unrelated—but for Black activists, the temperance movement was a powerful vehicle for social change. In this episode of Grating the Nutmeg, Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Museum chats with Mackenzie Tor about her research into Black temperance activism in...

225. On Trial: Alfred Marder and Catherine Roraback - A Communist’s Arrest in 1950’s McCarthy-era New Haven (10th Anniversary Encore Release)

224. Scholar, Activist, Trailblazer: The Enduring Legacy of Dr. Lorenzo Greene

223. The ‘Great Temperance Times’ in Nineteenth-Century Black Connecticut

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