I’m pleased to share that St. Augustine Church has officially been added to the National Park Service’s Network to Freedom, a program dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of the Underground Railroad. I had the privilege of researching and writing the nomination, a process that involved extensive archival research, thorough analysis, and collaboration with…
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Rising Sun History Book Digitized
RESEARCH TIP — 1960 RISING SUN MD CENTENNIAL BOOKLET DIGITIZED — FREE ACCESS PROVIDED BY ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY — For the centennial of the town of Rising Sun, a committee published an informative 96-page booklet in 1960. It is jammed with helpful information about the town, and I pull it from my bookshelf often…
Talking About Murder and Railroad Accidents with WBOC
Tuesday, WBOC’s Delmarva Life asked me to stop by the Salisbury studio to talk about terrible railroad accidents and crimes, a time when murder and mayhem rode the rails on the Peninsula. In the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, trains were the dominant form of transportation and unsettling accidents and violent deaths…
Jim Crow and the Spanish Flu
I have been asked to discuss the connections between Jim Crow and the Pandemic of 1918 for a program sponsored by the Harford Community College Civil Rights Project on May 13, 2021, at 4 p.m. Here is more information on the program JIM CROW AND THE SPANISH FLU – DEADLY CONNECTIONS A Discussion about the…