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March 13, 2024
PARKERSBURG – The executive director of the Southeast Ohio History Center in Athens will be the featured speaker at the 7 p.m. March 21 meeting of the Civil W
February 8, 2024
Kansas City has a rich and influential legacy when it comes to the development of Black gospel music. This is its largely untold story.
June 30, 2023
The Risley Alumni Association will induct a second class of honorees into the historic Risley High School Hall of Fame this weekend.
June 22, 2023
A glimpse into the Civil War-era Freedmen’s Colony experience may soon be brought to life thanks to a planned Fort Raleigh National Historic Site project.
June 20, 2022
A new work of historical fiction, set for release June 23, explores a Texas freedmen’s school and raises questions of white authorship.
December 27, 2021
The Exchange Hotel opened in Gordonsville in 1860, built by Robert Omohundro at the site of his recently burned tavern. Omohundro took advantage of the nearby Central Virginia Railroad, offering food and lodging to wealthy travelers. The hotel later became a Civil War hospital and then a school for the formerly enslaved.
August 10, 2021
The Town of Carrboro unveiled its second truth plaque at the former Freedmen’s School site on North Merritt Mill Road.