Author: Emily Schramm

The Many Lives of Sojourner Truth

Sojourner Truth died on November 26, 1883, aged 86. Yet reports of her death began circulating decades earlier. Abolitionists and women’s rights advocates had built Truth into a prophetic figure,

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The Sand Creek Massacre

When  Deputy Provost Marshall Silas Soule left his home late in the evening of April 23, 1865, to investigate reports of gunfire, he did not know it would be his

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60th Anniversary of Freedom Summer

This summer marks the sixtieth anniversary of a watershed season of civil rights organizing across the state of Mississippi. Referenced internally as the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project and advertised as the

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