Between the Bylines: Union and Independence in the Summer of 1861
It’s July 4th weekend, for many Americans a time for celebration, fireworks, and grilling. But it’s also an opportunity to think about …
Category: African American History
How to Leave Town: Julia Ann Mitchell and Stepney Brown
By the time the Civil War was over, both Stepney Brown and Julia Ann Mitchell had escaped Richmond. The ways in which they …
Printing the Legend: The Unseen Courage of Harriet Tubman
Featured Image: Map of the Underground Railroad. Tubman used the route which ran from Maryland to Wilmington, Delaware, then to Albany, New …
Battling Ballots: Before the War
Step into George Caleb Bingham’s 1852 celebration of American democracy, The County Election. In the boisterous and crowded scene, we see the …
Emancipation and Juneteenth Collection Highlights
Juneteenth marks the day, June 19, in 1865 when General Gordon Granger of the United States Army arrived in Galveston, Texas and …
Historical Resources to Understand & Explain the Present Unrest
Historian and American Civil War Museum board member Ed Ayers recently noted that, “if we are going to explain today, and lay …
Two Sides of Memory
What does Memorial Day mean to you? Is it just cookouts? Solemn appreciation for the nation’s dead? Do you think it has …
Annual Legacies: Susie Baker King Taylor
Susie Baker King Taylor was born into slavery on August 6, 1848 to Hagar and Raymond Baker on the Grest Farm in …
The Emancipation Question
With our doors closed to the public, we love hearing from our visitors. This week we have a question about instituting the …
15th Turns 150!
March 30, 2020, is the 150th anniversary of the adoption of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution (ratified Feb. 3, 1870), which …
Seizing – and Speaking Out for – Freedom
By John M. Coski, Historian The Museum’s April “House 200” program, “Seizing Freedom,” offered an immersive tour of the Confederate White …