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Video Reconstruction in the Movies-NPS Ranger Rich Condon Discusses Hollywood Depictions

Reel History is a regular series on YouTube discussing how history is portrayed by Hollywood. In this episode Reconstruction in the Movies National Park Ranger…

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Posted in U.S. Grant

Grant Bicentennial at Saratoga NY Recalls 1888 Delmonico’s Grant Birthday Dinner

This weekend, Saratoga Spa State Park near Albany, N.Y., will hold a Grant 200th Birthday event based on an actual 1888 celebration of Grant’s Birthday…

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On April 27 Visit Grant’s St. Louis Home White Haven for His Bicentennial Birthday

At White Haven, Ulysses S. Grant’s home in St. Louis from 1854 to 1859, a commemoration of his 200th Birthday will take place on April…

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Grant Bicentennial at Culpeper Va. This Weekend

Culpeper, Va., an hour west of Fredericksburg, will be the site of a commemoration of the Grant Bicentennial this weekend. Grant was born on April…

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Posted in White Supremacy Women and Gender

Metropolitan Museum of Art Changes Display of Enslaved Woman by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux created one of the best known European sculptures of an enslaved woman in the 19th Century. Called “Why Born Enslaved!,” the Metropolitan Museum…

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Grant Bicentennial at Grant’s Tomb in New York to Include Presentation by Biographer Brooks Simpson

Grant’s Tomb will host a ceremony honoring Ulysses S. Grant on the 200th Anniversary of his birth on April 27.  The events begin at 11…

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Beginning This Weekend Ohio Celebrates Ulysses S. Grant Bicentennial-Schedule

April 27 is the 200th Anniversary of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant. We are looking at some of the Bicentennial celebrations that will be…

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Posted in Labor Movement White Supremacy Women and Gender

WaPo Article on Labor Organizing Among Black Women Laundresses in the South Right After the End of Slavery

Kim Kelly has a new book coming out called Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor that includes a section of Black women…

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Sixteen Sites Added to National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom

The National Park Service has added sixteen sites to its Undergound Railroad Network to Freedom, according to the Smithsonian. Here is the announcement and listing…

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Today Is the 160th Anniversary of Lincoln Signing Law Emancipating Slaves in D.C.

Today is the 160th Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia. In 1862, Lincoln signed into law a bill ending slavery in the District…

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