Learn from a soldier how the USCT played a pivotal role in the Civil War.
African American History
EVENT POSTPONED. Hermina Glass-Hill, award-winning historian, will reminisce about Susie King Taylor–Civil War nurse and teacher.
Join the Between the Lines Virtual Book Club to discuss Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons. The author will join us.
Join the Between the Lines Virtual Book Club to discuss Black Antietam by Emilie Amt. The author will join us.
Library of Congress historian Michelle A. Krowl will discuss extraordinary life of Elizabeth Keckley.
Dr. Michael A. Hill presents his first-person interpretation of Brevet Lt. Col. Alexander T. Augusta, M.D. the first African American to be commissioned as a regimental surgeon with the rank of Major during the Civil War
Jill Newmark discusses her book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons.
Jill Newmark discusses her book Without Concealment, Without Compromise: The Courageous Lives of Black Civil War Surgeons.
Dr. Emilie Amt discusses her book and shares personal stories of African Americans, both enslaved and free, who lived on the Antietam battlefield