Category: African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction
National Civil War Museum Harrisburg Pennsylvania
I remember when the National Civil War Museum opened in 2001 after costs of $32 million dollars to build and equip. Back then there were…
Curtis Yarvin “Historian” for Tech Bros Says Blacks Were Better Off With Slavery
The New York Times did an interview with Curtis Yarvin, a computer engineer who in middle age has become a major player in the reexamination…
NY Times on Why Showboat Is Such an Enduring Musical of American History
Joshua Barone is the assistant classical music and dance editor of the New York Times. He has written a note on why Showboat is both…
Civil War Institute: Interpreting Race at Battlefields and Historic Sites
The Civil War Institute did breakout sessions and one that I went to had National Park Service personnel and the director of a site in…
African Methodist Episcopal Church in Coxsackie NY
The Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Coxsackie, N.Y. is a church that goes back before the time of the Civil War. The church is…
Harriet Tubman’s Church Auburn N.Y. Photo Tour
Harriet Tubman today is an iconic figure of resistance to slavery, fighting for the Union to abolish slavery, and caring for Black veterans who served…
Juneteenth Celebration at Grant’s Cottage in the Adirondacks
On Juneteenth (June 19, 2023) the Grant Cottage in Upstate New York will have two programs honoring the National Holiday. Here is the press release…
Richmond Creating Center on History of Slave Trade at Shockoe Bottom
Richmond, Virginia’s Shockoe Bottom was a center of the slave trade in the United States. Sales of human beings took place there throughout the 19th…
Lincoln and the Effort to Send Freed Slaves to an Island Off of Haiti
The Washington Post has an article this weekend on a disturbing effort to transplant freed slaves to an island off of Haiti and Lincoln’s involvement….
When Jourdon Anderson Was Asked by His Former Owner to Return to Work After the Civil War
The Reconstruction Era National Historical Park recently shared this: In August 1865, Jourdon Anderson, a freedman living in Dayton, Ohio, addressed a letter to his…
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