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SUMMARY:Lessons in History Presentation with Edda L. Fields-Black
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Lessons in History Presentation with author Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black\, on March 9\, 2024\, from 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm at the NCWM.  Author Edda L. Fields-Black will talk about the story of the Combahee River Raid\, one of Harriet Tubman’s most extraordinary accomplishments\, based on original documents and written by a descendant of one of the participants.\n\n\n\nThis NCWM Lessons in History presentation will focus on the Combahee River Raid. Most Americans know of Harriet Tubman’s legendary life: escaping enslavement in 1849\, she led more than 60 others out of bondage via the Underground Railroad\, gave instructions on getting to freedom to scores more\, and went on to live a lifetime fighting for change. Yet the many biographies\, children’s books\, and films about Tubman omit a crucial chapter: during the Civil War\, hired by the Union Army\, she ventured into the heart of slave territory–Beaufort\, South Carolina–to live\, work\, and gather intelligence for a daring raid up the Combahee River to attack the major plantations of Rice Country\, the breadbasket of the Confederacy. \nUsing previous unexamined documents\, including Tubman’s US Civil War Pension File\, bills of sale\, wills\, marriage settlements\, and estate papers from planters’ families\, Fields-Black brings to life intergenerational\, extended enslaved families\, neighbors\, praise-house members\, and sweethearts forced to work in South Carolina’s deadly tidal rice swamps\, sold\, and separated during the antebellum period. \n\n\nAbout the author: Dr. Edda L. Fields-Black teaches history at Carnegie Mellon University and has written extensively about the history of West African rice farmers and technology\, including in such works as Deep Roots: Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora. She was a co-editor of Rice: Global Networks and New Histories. Fields-Black has served as a consultant for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture’s “Rice Fields of the Lowcountry” and the International African American Museum’s “Carolina Gold” permanent exhibits. She is the executive producer and librettist of “Unburied\, Unmourned\, Unmarked: Requiem for Rice\,” a widely performed original contemporary classical work by three-time EMMY™ Award-winning composer John Wineglass. Fields-Black is a descendant of Africans enslaved on rice plantations in Colleton County\, South Carolina; her great-great-great grandfather fought in the Combahee River Raid.  Her latest book\, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman\, the Combahee River Raid\, and Black Freedom during the Civil War\, was published in February 2024 by Oxford University Press. \nGuests can tour the Museum Galleries for an entrance fee of $16.00 for Adults\, $15.00 for Seniors and AAA\, and $14.00 for Students and Military. Admission to the presentation is free.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/lessons-in-history-presentation-with-dr-edda-l-fields-black/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:February Civil War Dance Classes
DESCRIPTION:Sunday ~ February 25\, March 10\, 2024\, 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. Get ready for the Civil War Preservation Ball\, in March 2023. This is great family fun!  Attend one or all of the classes and learn the popular formation dances of the 1860s. Partners are encouraged but not required and wear modern\, comfortable\, clothing since this is a physical workout. \nRegister here: contact@civilwardance.org \nPlease include the dates you plan to attend and the names of the attendees. Enrollees will be sent a Civil War Dance Manual. \nConducted by the Victorian Dance Ensemble\, the performing troupe of the Civil War Dance Foundation:\n* 2011 Civil War Trust’s Reenactment Unit of the Year\n* 2016 President’s Volunteer Service Gold Award \nRegular museum admission applies for entrance to the museum galleries.
URL:https://www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org/event/february-civil-war-dance-classes/
LOCATION:The National Civil War Museum\, 1 Lincoln Circle at Reservoir Park\, Harrisburg\, PA\, 17103\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Civil Conversation w/ Dr. Bruce Levine via Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, March 21\, 2024\, at 7:00 pm for a CIVIL CONVERSATION. This is a live ZOOM event ~ Dr. Bruce Levine\, author of Thaddeus Stevens will engage in a Civil Conversation with NCWM CEO Jeffrey Nichols. Register here: Book Talk with Dr. Bruce Levine on Thaddeus Stevens \nAbout the book: A “powerful” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of one of the 19th century’s greatest statesmen\, encompassing his decades-long fight against slavery and his postwar struggle to bring racial justice to America. \nThaddeus Stevens was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution—a chance to remake the country as a genuine multiracial democracy. As one of the foremost abolitionists in Congress in the years leading up to the war\, he was a leader of the young Republican Party’s radical wing\, fighting for anti-slavery and anti-racist policies long before party colleagues like Abraham Lincoln endorsed them. These policies—including welcoming black men into the Union’s armies—would prove crucial to the Union war effort. \nDuring the Reconstruction era that followed\, Stevens demanded equal civil and political rights for Black Americans—rights eventually embodied in the 14th and 15th amendments. But while Stevens in many ways pushed his party—and America—towards equality\, he also championed ideas too radical for his fellow Congressmen ever to support\, such as confiscating large slaveholders’ estates and dividing the land among those who had been enslaved. \nIn Thaddeus Stevens\, acclaimed historian Bruce Levine has written a “vital” (The Guardian)\, “compelling” (James McPherson) biography of one of the most visionary statesmen of the 19th century and a forgotten champion for racial justice in America. \nAbout the author: Bruce Levine\nPhoto by Ruth Hoffman \nBruce Levine is the bestselling author of four books on the Civil War era\, including The Fall of the House of Dixie and Confederate Emancipation\, which received the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship and was named one of the top ten works of nonfiction of its year by The Washington Post. He is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Illinois.
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