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<h3>For years the papers I’d inherited gathered dust in my closet, shut away, easy to ignore. Occasionally it would cross my mind that I should take them out and go through them   – possibly sometime after I had finished alphabetizing my library, organizing my box of snapshots and culling my work files. </h3>

The Museums on the Green will host nine virtual talks in June as part of its ongoing Virtual Museum Series. This month, authors and historians from across the country will be talking about an epic Grand Prix race, New World explorers, female pioneers, slave traders, whaling captains, the country’s first baseball players and America’s elite alpine warriors, the 10th Mountain Division. The museums will also host its first, free Virtual Trivia Night on Thursday, June 3, at 7 PM, and awar...

My great-great-grandfather A.J. Pickett owned two cotton plantations in Alabama. He was a historian and an apologist for slavery. He wrote that the South’s steamy climate was so destructive of the constitutions of whites that the land could never be successfully cultivated without African labor. He despised abolitionists and, in one pamphlet, defended the South’s system of what he called “mild domestic slavery.”   As my great-great-grandfather’s words illustrate, America was bu...