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Today in Black History #BHM: U.S. Congress Introduces Bill To Abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia in 1862
On February 2, 1862, Congress took a significant step toward ending slavery in the United States by abolishing it in the District of Columbia. This decision marked a crucial moment in the fight for ...
A silent movie on Lincoln was thought lost to the ages — until it turned up in Greenport
The film, discovered last summer in a basement archive, sheds light on early 20th century depictions of the Civil War and the ...
What Black history in pre-Civil War Cincinnati looked like, per a celebrated scholar
Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...