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…
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…
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…
Stonewall’s Presbyterian Theologian Robert Dabney on the Effort to Welcome Black Ministers During Reconstruction
Robert Lewis Dabney was a noted Southern Presbyterian who served as both a minister of that faith and a professor of systematic theology. Before the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ted Widmer Gives Strong Recommendation of John Avlon’s New Lincoln and the Fight for Peace in WaPo
Ted Widmer, professor at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York, has a review in The Washington Post of John Avlon’s new book…