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14 Father’s Day Gifts Every History Buff Dad Secretly Wants
Guys can be notoriously hard to shop for, making Father’s Day a particularly challenging time for gift-givers. We don’t want to leave poor old Dad hanging with a rushed, last-minute gift he’ll never use, but sometimes his personal interests can feel a bit obscure — especially if he’s a so-called “history buff.” Amazon If wars, landmarks, maps and archives are your dad’s thing, then you’re in luck. We’ve rounded up the best Father’s Day gifts for dads who can’t get enough of the past.
A Long Story of Freedom Seeking
On September 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. Under his wartime authority as commander-in-chief, he ordered that as of January 1, 1863, enslaved individuals in all areas still in rebellion against the United States “henceforward shall be free.” On New Years’ Day, the day the Emancipation Proclamation was signed, cannon shots fired, church bells rang, and speakers orated at public observances throughout the North and in Union-held areas of the South.
The Roots of Greenwood
The Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma has a history that is rooted in the history of Black settlements and towns in 19th century Oklahoma and a wider geography of communities of freedom that stretch far and wide across the continent for hundreds of years. For much of American history, land was potent symbol of freedom and a foundation for the practice of self-determination. For free and enslaved Africans and African Americans land held these same qualities.
Make Good the Promises: Reclaiming Reconstruction and Its Legacies
Description The companion volume to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture exhibit, opening in September 2021 With a Foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Eric Foner and a preface by veteran museum director and historian Spencer Crew An incisive and illuminating analysis of the enduring legacy of the post-Civil War period known as Reconstruction--a comprehensive story of Black Americans' struggle for human rights and dignity and the failure...
Reflections on the Artifacts Left Behind From the Tulsa Race Massacre Original
In this series of four vignettes, Paul Gardullo, a curator with the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), tells the stories behind objects in the Smithsonian collections from the Tulsa Race Massacre on its 100th anniversary. When NMAAHC was chartered in 2003, it held not a single artifact in its collections nor a single photograph in its archives.
Why Emmett Till's case matters to American history and our future
Paul Gardullo is a curator and director of the Center for the Study of Global Slavery at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, where Lonnie G. Bunch III is the founding director. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors. View more opinion articles on CNN.
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