Posted in Freedmen's Bureau Resource

Smithsonian’s Freedmen’s Bureau Records Now Searchable and Available OnLine

The Smithsonian’s Freedmen’s Bureau Records are now searchable for free online. Smithsonian has been using volunteers for years transcribing documents from the Freedmen’s Bureau so…

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Posted in Frederick Douglass Resource Slavery

Free On-Line Museum Exhibit on Life of Frederick Douglass

For our Pandemic Black History Month, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute has created a virtual museum exhibit on the life of Frederick Douglass told through the artifacts…

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Posted in Civil War Confiscation Act Resource USCT

Connecticut Creates Database of Its Black Civil War USCT Troops

The Connecticut State Library has digitalized its records of Black men from the state who served in the United States Colored Troops during the Civil…

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Posted in Immigrants Lincoln Resource

New Curriculum Available on “Lincoln and the Jews”

The Shapell Foundation was the force behind a Civil War Sesquicentennial exhibition at the New York Historical Society on Lincoln’s interactions with the emerging Jewish…

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Posted in Resource Slavery

New Website Launched With Searchable Database of Enslaved People

Databases of people of African descent held as slaves have been around for a number of years, but a new website that partners Harvard and…

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Posted in Abolitionists Resource Slavery Videos

Video: Anti-Slavery Politics in the Antebellum Era from CUNY Conference on Abolitionists

This is the third video in a series on the Abolition Movement that was held at CUNY back in 2014. This panel looked at the…

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Posted in 13th Amendment Abolitionists Civil War Frederick Douglass Lincoln Memory of Reconstruction Resource Slavery Videos

Video: The Abolitionists and the Political Crisis of the 1850s from CUNY Abolitionist Conference

The next video in the series from CUNY’s great conference on Abolitionism is filled with heavy hitters talking about the political crisis of the 1850s….

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Posted in Book Reviews Resource

Part 1: Free Online Access to Hundreds of Great Civil War and Reconstruction Books from University of North Carolina Press

Nothing is good about the Corona Pandemic except that Project Muse is making hundreds of books about the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras free online….

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Video: Panel on the Revolutionary War Origins of the Abolitionist Movement from CUNY Conference “The Antislavery Bulwark”

Here is the first panel in the CUNY Conference on Abolition from 2014. The conference was called “The Antislavery Bulwark.” The video of the panel…

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Video: David Blight at CUNY Conference on Abolition “The Anti-Slavery Bulwark”

The City University of New York CUNY Grad Center conference on Abolition and the Civil War took place in 2014. Videos of the conference have…

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