History News

Happenings across West Michigan: Week of March 14
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com
Muskegon County Museum of African American History, 2:30-5 pm Thursday-Saturday, 7 E. Center St., Muskegon Heights, free, (231) 739-9500. ...

Cazenovia Public Library News
Madison County Courier
... eight books and numerous articles and essays, many of them dealing with American abolitionism, the Underground Railroad, and African American history. ...

African American history exhibit at Mooney Grove Park in south Visalia ...
Visalia Times-Delta
Tulare County officials will host a reception celebrating the opening of the exhibition “The African American Experience in Tulare County,” 2-4 pm Saturday ...

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Montpelier Train Depot Restored
NBC 29 News
Chapman says, "We at Montpelier don't necessarily look at it as separate history to say it's African American history or it's American history but it's all ...

Collector Donates Tubman Trove to African-American History Museum
Chronicle of Philanthropy (subscription) (blog)
A Philadelphia historian and collector has donated 39 Harriet Tubman artifacts to the planned National Museum of African American History ...

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Week In Quebec City; Ski New Mexico; New Exhibit At Graceland
Hartford Courant
800-238-2000; tiny.cc/4tL2u •Detroit's Museum of African American History is showing the exhibit " Joe Louis: Hometown Hero," about the famous boxer through ...

African-American 'Road Trip' Honored
WOWK
Episodes of the "Road Trip to History" series highlighting the Eastern Panhandle's African-American history will air on West Virginia Public Television ...

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African-American 'Road Trip' Honored
WBOY-TV
Episodes of the "Road Trip to History" series highlighting the Eastern Panhandle's African-American history will air on W.Va. Public Television March 15. ...

African-American 'Road Trip' Honored
WVNS-TV
Episodes of the "Road Trip to History" series highlighting the Eastern Panhandle's African-American history will air on West Virginia Public Television ...

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Conversation, not panel, is needed on high school course
Hometownlife.com
At the center of the debate is the district's first course in African-American history and culture. The course, developed by Salem High School social ...

Pittsburgh native's film is part of kids' film festival
California Chronicle
... been shown at the Hollywood Black Film Festival in 2008, and the Reginald F. Lewis Museum of Maryland African American History & Culture in Baltimore. ...

Wossman High School excels during 2nd semester
Monroe Free Press
The Student Council & SADD Organizations sponsored several African-American History Month activities, such as a trivia contest, an Internet scavenger hunt, ...

NOLA.com
Joe Louis Caldwell, first African-American chairman of UNO history department ...
NOLA.com
Dr. Caldwell, whose specialty was American history, taught courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction, African-American history and African-American ...

Read this: Are DC's 'Real Housewives' doomed? Also: Hillary Clinton's State ...
Ethiopian Review
A collector has donated 39 Harriet Tubman artifacts to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. ...

Harriet Tubman Artifacts Donated to New Museum in Phila.
KYW1060.com
... will be on display at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture, expected to open in Washington in 2015.

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Church News
Corsicana Daily Sun
Ray Emanuel is pastor, held a successful black history program, “What is African American History Month?,” on Feb. 28 with Lizzie O'Neal as narrator. ...

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Wait begins for Pawlenty bonding bill vetoes
Twin Cities Planet
$840000 to design and begin construction on a Minnesota African-American History Museum and Culture Center. * $750000 for Minneapolis to complete an ...

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AOL News
Black History Month Scandal Sends Teachers Packing
AOL News
... he didn't think the teachers were racially motivated or intended to mock African-American history, but said it "was an exercise of very poor judgment. ...

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Harriet Tubman Artitacts Donated To Smithsonian
NPR (blog)
... hymn book and other artifacts related to her to the Smithsonian's new National Museum of African American History and Culture scheduled to open in 2015.

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Washington Post (blog)
Read this: Are DC's 'Real Housewives' doomed? Also: Hillary Clinton's State ...
Washington Post (blog)
A collector has donated 39 Harriet Tubman artifacts to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. The new White House social ...