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15 Least Popular US Presidents According to Millennials: Ranked
247wallst.com· 4 days agoAbout one in five voters in the United States is millennial, and these 15 presidents have the lowest...
A RISD professor’s fascinating discovery about a former slave - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 4 days agoSchroeder: I was working on a book on the history of nostalgia. Harriet’s son went with his Uncle...
‘Sailing to Freedom’ - The Martha's Vineyard Times
The Martha's Vineyard Times· 3 days ago“Sailing to Freedom: Maritime Dimensions of the Underground Railroad” broadens our understanding of the daring sea escapes that were instrumental in...
The extraordinary lives of New England’s Black whaling captains - The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe· 5 days agoWhat makes Cuffe’s story remarkable is that he accomplished all this as a Black and Native American...
'This is a person worth remembering': Freed-slave honored for Juneteenth
News Channel 5 Cleveland· 3 days agoThe Juneteenth National Independence Day marks the day in 1865 when the last enslaved Black Americans in Galveston, Texas, learned that they had been freed two years earlier by the Emancipation ...
U.S. laws created during slavery remain on the books. A scholar wants us to cite that history.
Kansas Reflector via Yahoo News· 3 days agoAs the story of Juneteenth is told by modern-day historians, enslaved Black people were freed by...
Tracing Northeast Ohio’s Underground Railroad history at Cleveland’s Cozad-Bates House (photos)
The Cleveland Plain Dealer· 4 days agoBefore the Civil War, Northeast Ohio was a hotbed of abolitionism, dotted with safe houses and sites...
Edward Robert McClelland: The Illinois debate that made Abraham Lincoln a national figure
Chicago Tribune· 7 days agoHere, McClelland takes us to Ottawa, Illinois, for the famed first senatorial debate between Lincoln...