Richard Kreitner, a Wayne native, has written a new book, "Fear No Pharaoh: American Jews, the Civil War, and the Fight to End Slavery." He looks at the ways in which all groups, Jewish or otherwise, ...
President Abraham Lincoln, in his Emancipation Proclamation, declared, “…all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State… shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free…” The ...
Nearly 3,000 books have been temporarily pulled off shelves in Rutherford County following a letter from TN Secretary of ...
There’s a reason for everything. That doesn’t mean an excuse or a guess made of ignorance, but an explanation for what was, a kind of thought process that says if this happens, then that. A reason is ...
A powerful & thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Mary Frances Berry Join us for a powerful and thought-provoking conversation with Dr. Mary Frances Berry, celebrated historian and author of ...
An ambitious chronicle spans four centuries of escapes and uprisings in the Americas ‘I am painting a historical landscape,” writes Carrie Gibson – “one that stretches the entire length and breadth of ...
When we think of slavery in America, we think of Africans stolen from their homeland. But Indians were enslaved as well, in what has become a hidden chapter in our history. In his long-awaited and ...
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