Authors across time have challenged us to look back at history and learn what we missed, relearn what we had not fully understood, reexamine new information in more detail, consider new interpretations of old stories, and understand the past and present from new voices uncovered and new voices reclaimed. Join us for FreedomCon 2025, an 8-month series of engaging presentation workshops.
In order for Underground Railroad Education Center to continue to expand its outreach and share the empowering reinterpretation of underground railroad history and its relevance for us today, UREC needs a facility fully dedicated to programs, events, exhibits, video documentary production and viewing, research, workforce development, children’s engagement, and the arts. This facility would be the Interpretive Center of Underground Railroad Education Center.
Visit The Stephen and Harriet Myers Residence for a journey through the real story of the Black Abolitionist movement and celebrate the thousands of unsung, everyday heroes who worked to move our country closer to true democracy.
Albany — Albany’s Underground Railroad Education Center is the latest local space for history and education to receive notice that their federal Institute of Museum and Library Services grant is being…
Times Union: Local cultural organizations brace for uncertainty amid federal grant cuts By Katherine Kiessling, Times Union Staff Writer May 5, 2025 The letters all began similarly: “Dear IMLS Grantee”…
‘Devastating’: Underground Railroad Center program derailed by IMLS cuts The Altamont Enterprise Wednesday, April 23, 2025 – 19:40 ALBANY — Cuts in federal funds have delayed or perhaps derailed a…
By Ashley Soebroto, Times Union March 19, 2025 ALBANY — Local history museums are on edge as federal funding cuts target another agency: the Institute of Museum and Library Services.…
The Altamont Enterprise: Drawing on the past, interpretive center is to be ‘an investment in the future From The Altamont Enterprise: The Underground Railroad Education Center has received another sizable…
By Tim Williams, Albany SPECTRUM News PUBLISHED 7:15 PM ET JUL. 08, 2024 Underground Railroad Education Center founders, Paul and Mary Liz Stewart spoke to Spectrum News about the Harriet…
