In the traveling exhibit Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America, George Washington’s plantation, Mount Vernon, serves as a lens into the world of food and enslavement in colonial Virginia. Culinary historian Lavada Nahon compares the depiction of Mount Vernon with the unique food culture of colonial New York. Source:: https://libguides.hvcc.edu/fandf
Preceding the American Civil War, the African American community in Troy was the prominent center of racial justice activism. The community was recognized at that time for tenacious leadership in the state suffrage reform movement as well as the national abolition movement. Jennifer Thompson Burns, Ph.D. will reveal the rich history of Troy’s antebellum African…
Monthly URHPCR Board Meetings are open to the public. Pay us a visit. Listen in on the discussions that inform implementation of the mission-based vision of URHPCR. Please contact Mary Liz Stewart, Executive Director, via the phone number or website link to inform her of your intent to attend.
Author Talk and Signing with Andrew Delbanco. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, the Rhinebeck Reformed Church, the Jewish Federation of Dutchess County and the Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project will present an African American History Month author talk and signing with Andrew Delbanco author of THE WAR BEFORE THE WAR: FUGITIVE SLAVES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR AMERICA'S SOUL…
Collections Committee is setting up a museum quality artifact management system for the thousands of artifacts unearthed through a variety of archeological digs across the years, and the Collections Committee is organizing archival records and other historic records of Underground Railroad History Project. Take photos. Draft text. Manage filing. Join in the fun and contribute…
All are welcome to join in the discussion of Black Reconstruction in American 1860-1880 by E.B. Du Bois. Books are available for $25 from Underground Railroad History Project. Du Bois published Black Reconstruction (BR) in 1935 with Harcourt, Brace and Company (New York). He completed it after leaving the NAACP and returning to Atlanta University.…
CALLING ANYONE INTERESTED IN PLAYING OR LEARNING HOW TO PLAY CHESS, A HISTORIC GAME SET IN A HISTORIC HOUSE. BOARDS AND PLAYING PIECES PROVIDED. ALL AGES AND ABILITY LEVELS WELCOME.
Ken Aslakson, PhD, Union College, will discuss antebellum New York, home to some of the time period’s most well-known freedom seekers. No person of African descent was ever completely secure in their freedom. Even those born free were susceptible to being kidnapped and sold into enslavement. Event details and tickets available at https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/illegal-freedom-and-illegal-slavery-with-professor-ken-aslakson/ $5 admission
What more is there to know about the Underground Railroad? It was all about Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass and helping escaping slaves find freedom in Canada, wasn't it? Whose voices contributed to this image of Underground Railroad history? Where did this understanding come from? New research conducted by Paul and Mary Liz Stewart, Scholars-in-Residence…
Join Paul and Mary Liz Stewart, Scholars-in-Residence at Russell Sage College, and Oscar Williams, PhD at SUNY Albany on WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s Vox Pop at 2pm on Wednesday, February 26. Vox Pop is WAMC's live call-in talk program. hoste by Alan Chartok and Ray Graf. There are several ways to join the conversation: Call…
Join in the planning of 5 Boros to Freedom 2020 - a celebration of African American history and culture in the five boroughs of New York City. HIGHLIGHTING THE PINKSTER THEMES OF SELF-RELIANCE, SUPPORTING OTHERS, SELF-ASSERTION, AND COMMUNITY, 5 BOROS TO FREEDOM LOOKS TO CELEBRATE THESE THEMES THROUGH A VARIETY OF PROGRAM OFFERINGS TO BE…
July 4th Oration, 2020 planning starts now! Lend a hand to design a memorable July 4th program. Framed by Frederick Douglass’s 1852 speech, What to the Slave is Your Fourth of July, and using previous formatting ideas as a springboard to planning the 2020 event, lend your ideas, your expertise, your creative thoughts, to the…
