with Bob Plumb | pre-recorded virtual event | Join us as Robert Plumb discusses five remarkable women who made important contributions to the Union cause at various stages before, during, and after the critical years of the American Civil War. The singular actions of Clare Barton, Julia Ward Howe, Sarah Josepha Hale, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and […]

with Ralph Buglass | pre-recorded virtual event | Education, denied to the enslaved, was one of the highest priorities of emancipated African Americans. But in Montgomery County, where slavery existed, public education was not extended to Black children until a decade after it was instituted for White children. Even then, the practice of “separate but equal” […]