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This event will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the National Trails System Act by the U.S. Congress which led to the creation of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail.... details>>
Because of its strategic location, Fort Scott became a major base of Union Operations during the Civil War. Enjoy a weekend of Civil War history an living history... details>>
Because of its strategic location, Fort Scott became a major base of Union operations during the Civil War. Enjoy a weekend of Civil War history and living... details>>
The Friends of Oak Hill will be hosting an Earth Day spring cleanup at Oak Hill. We will be focusing our efforts on cleaning up the general areas around several historically... details>>
The National Archives at KC, the American Jazz Museum & the Greater KC Black History Study Group, will offer a screening & discussion of The Black Press: Soldiers without... details>>
6/19/2017 6:30:00 PM | Kansas City, MO
Recaptured Africans (book discussion with author Sharla M. Fett)
In celebration of Juneteenth, commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S., history professor Sharla M. Fett examines the 19th-century march toward abolition. Before the Civil War, as the government worked to suppress the import of slaves (banned by Congress in 1808), the U.S. Navy seized about 2,000 captured Africans from illegal slave ships and took them to temporary camps in Key West and Charleston. Fett looks at the social world of those “recaptives.”...details >>
