by AJ Sam | Dec 29, 2025 | Blog
Harriet Beecher Stowe, born in 1811, moved with her family from Massachusetts to Cincinnati in 1832, and Stowe encountered fugitive enslaved people and the Underground Railroad for the first time. Her anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written in reaction to...
by AJ Sam | Dec 29, 2025 | Blog
The New York City Draft Riots of 1863 were not a single protest gone wrong, but rather the explosive result of overlapping social, economic, and racial tensions intensified by war. While the immediate trigger was the federal government’s Enrollment Act, the deeper...
by AJ Sam | Dec 29, 2025 | Blog
The Fort Pillow Massacre in Tennessee on April 12, 1864, in which some 300+ African American soldiers were murdered by Confederate soldiers, was one of the most controversial events of the American Civil War. Though most of the Union garrison (both White and African...
by AJ Sam | Dec 29, 2025 | Blog
The 16th President of the United States of America, Abraham Lincoln, was born in Kentucky, grew up in Illinois, and became the leader of the United States during the most tumultuous time in its history. He has monuments erected for him in Washington, DC. I’ve...
by AJ Sam | Dec 29, 2025 | Blog
Frederick Douglass, the preeminent speaker for African Americans during the middle 1800s bent President Lincoln’s ear every chance he got. It wasn’t for Lincoln to allow African American men to fight in the war – they were already doing that in droves with...