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The Baltimore County Public Library is taking a page from the Pratt library’s playbook and engaging the public with lively ...
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On April 26, the Holy Trinity Quilting Queens will host a talk on “Pre-Civil War Quilts: Secret Codes to Freedom on the Underground Railroad.” Connie Martin, an Illinois Humanities Road ...
CARLISLE, Pa. (WHTM) — The Cumberland County Historical Society (CCHS) announced that it has acquired a rare Underground Railroad letter dating back to 1847. According to CCHS, the historic ...
He said the history of the Underground Railroad, or of anything else, doesn’t change because someone banned books from a library or rewrote a web page. The way Keown sees it, that history is as ...
But yes, in day-to-day work, there are joys. Stacks of Colson Whitehead’s bestselling novel and 2025 Campus Reads book “The Underground Railroad” lay on a table at Pius XII Memorial Library on April 7 ...
Colson Whitehead is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist ... as she escapes through a literal underground railroad. This book explored the brutal realities of American slavery and the resilience ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backla ...
The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash over the changes.