Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in Black history, and Books
The book was partially hidden under other items on the auction table, but from the title, I instantly knew who – not what – it was about: “The New Progress of a Race.” It had…
Posted in African American women, and Military
The story behind the play was more intriguing than the play itself. That’s what I determined after watching a very small cast tell the story of two black women who refused the indignity of scrubbing…
Posted in history
Recently, I got an email from a man named Darrell English who had read my blog posts from some months ago about an auction of Nazi paraphernalia. I had written emphatically that I could never…
Over the weekend, I went with a friend to see Robert Redford’s new movie “The Conspirator,” about Mary Surratt, who was tried and convicted of conspiring to kill President Lincoln in 1865. I know the…
I had my eye out for mile marker 116.7 as we drove along the Pennsylvania Turnpike headed west last week. At that point, I would be in the vicinity of Negro Mountain Tunnel, though I…
