Category: Underground Railroad
Congaree National Park May Have to Redact Three Items of Printed Material on Slavery
Congaree National Park in South Carolina is eighteen miles southeast of the state’s capital of Columbia. The park gets fewer than 150,000 visitors every year…
Harriet Tubman Sites in Cambridge, Maryland
The most photographed mural of Harriet Tubman is at 424 Race St, Cambridge, MD. The small city is just ten miles north of Harriet Tubman…
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Has Displays Flagged for Violating President’s Executive Order at Cane River
The National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom was created through an Act of Congress passed in 1998 which gave the National Park Service responsibility for…
Underground Railroad Museum in Albany Lose Funding Under Crusade Against Black History
The Underground Railroad Education Center in Albany has filed a lawsuit against the Federal government claiming that the government has wrongfully withheld $250,000 in Federal…
Two Civil War Books Win Pulitzer Prizes in Fiction and History
On May 5 the announcement came of Pulitzer Prizes. Two books largely dealing with the Civil War, won awards. The winner for Fiction was James…
Outcry Against National Park for Altering the History of the Underground Railroad Succeeds!
The outcry against the National Park Service over its altering of the history of the Underground Railroad on its website has succeeded, at least for…
National Park Service Rewrites History of Underground Railroad (and it ain’t good)
The new administration has made a lot of changes in how the National Park Service (NPS), the military, and other agencies present American history. Today’s…
Percival Everett’s “James” Receives National Book Award for Retelling of Hunk Finn
Last night, the new book James by Percival Everett won the National Book Award for Fiction. The book is a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures…
Chambersburg’s Memorial Fountain for Union Troops & “The Burning of Chambersburg”
The women’s groups of Franklin County, Pennsylvania met on Memorial Day in 1868 and agreed they wanted to honor their men for serving in the…
Harriet Tubman & Thomas Garrett Statue in Wilmington, Delaware
For the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the citizens of Wilmington, Delaware erected a new statue in the revived Riverfront Park along the Christina River…