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Removing Old Monuments and Erecting New Ones
Nearly 160 years ago this month, abolitionist John Brown led 18 men down a dark country road to Harpers Ferry, located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers…
Read MoreSharing the Story of “Five for Freedom” – Lessons Given and Lessons Learned
By the time most of you who subscribe read this, I will have shared the stories of Osborne Perry Anderson, John Anthony Copeland, Shields Green, Lewis Sheridan Leary and Dangerfield…
Read MoreLOCAL AUTHOR TELLS STORY OF AFRICAN AMERICANS AND JOHN BROWN’S RAID
This was posted Aug. 28, 2018 on the “Source of the Spring” website and is reprinted with permission. My thanks to Mike Diegel, whose site seeks to fill a community…
Read MoreFIVE FOR FREEDOM: Coming Events, and Other Important Updates
The rollout continues for FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army. If you missed me at Politics and Prose, you can watch the YouTube video by…
Read MoreGeorge L. Cato, Jr., R.I.P.
Many, probably almost all of you, have never heard of George Cato. He wasn’t an author or a media celebrity or a public figure. What he was was my neighbor…
Read MoreFamilies Torn apart: It Has Happened Here. It Is Happening Here.
BRENTSVILLE, Va. — It has happened before. Families torn apart. Crying children wrenched from the arms of sobbing parents. Uncertainty over whether the family would ever be reunited or forever…
Read MoreThis Is the Week That Was: FIVE FOR FREEDOM is here and now!
I’m proud to report that the e-book version of FIVE FOR FREEDOM: The African American Soldiers in John Brown’s Army is #3 on Amazon’s list of hot new releases in…
Read MoreWhat You Missed: Schieffer, McDermott, Dionne et al
Or maybe the headline should read: Last Weekend’s News Tonight, or This Morning, or whenever you are reading it. And, what a weekend it was at the 6th annual Washington…
Read MoreExtra! Extra! Read all about it! Or read all about at least some of it.
I still read print newspapers–-three are delivered daily to our driveway—but I find today’s news overwhelming. Easier to retreat into the past, which on closer examination was also overwhelming to…
Read MoreFrederick Douglass “being recognized more and more”
As is now widely known, thanks to stories posted during Black History Month, 2018 represents the bicentennial year of the birth of Frederick Douglass, who escaped from slavery on Maryland’s…
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