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A Nation of Plantations
Among the wrongs that took place in the United States of America, slavery will never cease to be highlighted. Many slaves were entrapped upon plantation land, driven to work for families and slavemasters…
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Reckoning & Remembrance
Last year, Wright Thompson published The Barn: The Secret History of A Murder In Mississippi, following the events leading up to the teenager’s brutal murder during his visit to see family in Mississippi.…
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From New Nation to Fighting for Equality
Boston’s Black community in the 1800s fought for equality, influencing their region and the United States. The Boston African American National Historic Site includes a Heritage Trail tracing the actions and locations of…
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Poetry in the Chaos
When I lived in Cincinnati for Ph.D. coursework, I visited many National Park Sites in Dayton, Ohio. The area is known for the beginnings of the Wright siblings’ foray into aviation. However, among…
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Forgotten, Fought For, Forsaken
Today’s National Park Site feature is the first in NYC, a ferry ride across the harbor from my apartment. My first visit a few years ago to the African Burial Ground National Monument…
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Freed, & Making People Freer
This summer, I visited the Booker T. Washington National Monument for the first time. Walking through the grounds of the plantation on which he and his family were enslaved, I imagined the everyday…
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A New (or Old) Society, but Always Broken
After the abolition of slavery in the United States, efforts to integrate communities, especially in states where slave-holding had been legal, began to spread. Civil rights were center stage for people trying to…
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Black History Month MMXXV: National Park Sites
As usual, I am excited to enter the best month of the year…February! From my childhood visiting U.S. National Park Service sties to my current obsession with filling up my National Parks Passport,…