Calendar of Events
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January 19 Tuesday
Online - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
Kenneth M. Price analyses Walt Whitman's life, writings, and government work to reevaluate the writer and the nation's capital. -
January 21 Thursday
Online - 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. EST
Michael Bellesiles traces the evolution of the battle for true equality from the Revolution through the late 19th century. -
January 27 Wednesday
Online - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
Author Deborah Willis discusses "The Black Civil War Soldier" and offers a kaleidoscopic, yet intimate, portrait of the African American experience from the beginning of the Civil War to 1900. -
January 29 Friday
Online - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
Benjamin R. Justesen reveals a previously unexamined facet of William McKinley’s Presidency: an ongoing dedication to the advancement of African Americans. -
February 4 Thursday
Online - 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST
Thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery had been abolished in 1837. -
February 9 Tuesday
Online - 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST
In "The Rope," Alex Tresniowski tells the remarkable true-crime story of the murder of Marie Smith, the dawn of modern criminal detection, and the launch of the NAACP. -
February 10 Wednesday
Online - 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. EST
Learn about federal records documenting migrant farm workers’ participation in farm labor programs in the United States. -
February 11 Thursday
Online - 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. EST
"Nine Days" recounts the events of October 1960, when Martin Luther King, Jr., was behind bars, and the two Presidential campaigns raced to decide whether, and how, to respond. -
February 16 Tuesday
Online - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. EST
"George Washington’s Final Battle" tells how the country’s first President tirelessly advocated for a capital on the shores of the Potomac. -
February 22 Monday
Online - 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ESTJohn C. Calhoun is among the most notorious and enigmatic figures in American political history. -
February 25 Thursday
Online - 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. EST
A panel discusses the complexity of the Black family as the foundation of African American life and history.
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