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Midday on WYPR (Baltimore), Mar. 4, 2021: A couple of weeks ago, Dr. Emilie Amt, the Hildegarde Pilgram Professor of History at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, published a blog post that revealed a legacy of slavery at …
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Black history is American history, yet black history is still distressingly absent from many of America's K-12 history classrooms. Even during Black History Month, some parents have to struggle to get their children’s schools …
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Some powerful myths have long dominated thinking about the history of slavery in western Maryland (and especially Washington County). When I start to talk about slavery with people who live here, or when I read what’s been …
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Over the past decade, many colleges and universities in the U.S. have faced, with varying degrees of openness, the truth about their slave history. Like every institution with roots very far back in American history, higher …
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Fountain Rock was a plantation about six miles south of Hagerstown, Maryland, from 1792 to 1825. In the antebellum years, the same site was home to the College of St. James (1841-1864), forerunner of today’s St. James School. …
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Story and photos by Lisa Gregory They lived rich and full lives. They married and raised children. They fought to preserve the Union during the Civil War and then to defend it against foreign powers during World War 1. …
