by lindaoppenheim | Dec 7, 2015 | Opinion
As “a country that teaches its history through monuments, the United States needs a monumnet “that tells the truth about slavery and its victims,” Blain Roberts and Ethan J. Kytle explain in their December 6, 2015 New York Times essay.
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 18, 2015 | Events
The new North Star movie stars former Philadelphia Eagle Jeremiah Trotter as Benjamin “Big Ben” Jones. It will be screened in Newtown, Pennsylvania now through September 24th. If there are some New Jersey dates, we will post them here, but Newtown...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 11, 2015 | Events
Sean Wilentz, the George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History, will give the University Constitution Day Lecture “Slavery and the U.S. Constitution” at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, in Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium. Sarah Rivett, associate...
by lindaoppenheim | Aug 17, 2015 | Article
John J. Cummings, III a retired trial lawyer, is redeveloping the Whitney Plantation as a memorial to the enslaved people who worked there and throughout the United States.
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 4, 2015 | Documents, Speech
On July 5, 1852, abolitionist Frederick Douglass was invited to speak in commemoration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year,...
