Every year, Monticello's West Portico becomes an outdoor courtroom where dozens of individuals take the Oath of Citizenship to become Americans. This ceremony is marked by music from the Charlottesville Municipal Band and the Old Line Fife and Drum Corps. After the ceremony, visitors enjoy root beer floats and children's activities on the West Lawn.
Kickoff Civic Season and explore the Black experience in Iowa’s history! June 10 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m.All activities included with General Admission Gain a better understanding of the legacy and hope of emancipation and explore the Black experience in Iowa from early farmsteads through the fight for civil rights. Presentations & Activities 9:15 a.m.— Welcome/Reading […]
As part of the monthly series "How El Paso Works", this month we are exploring El Paso's Police Department and comparing it to the services available 150 years ago in El Paso. Spoilers: Joseph Magoffin played a part. This is an interactive event with a guest speaker and question-and-answer opportunities. When Joseph Magoffin helped write […]
Join us at Jamestown Settlement on Wednesday, June 14, for a thought-provoking evening of history and performance exploring the precarious nature of freedom from 17th-century Jamestown to Juneteenth. Although Juneteenth springs from events that happened in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, the event celebrates liberation from a system of slavery with origins in Jamestown, […]
June is an important month in Black history: It’s when we celebrate both Juneteenth (June 19) and Black Music Month! Juneteenth commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. Learn about a local connection to Clara Brown, a pioneer and formerly enslaved person, through a musical presented by Mama Lisa and Fundisha Enterprises. Take […]
Join us for a riveting nine-generation family migration story from Texas to Missouri. Vanessa Slaughter, a native St. Louisan, will join Jim Vincent of the St. Louis African American History & Genealogy Society in a fireside chat to trace her family’s legacy to Galveston, Texas, in the 1860s. Each generation builds on the foundation of […]
Happy Juneteenth! To commemorate the holiday, we’ll learn about past and present freedom jubilees through a book reading. Possible books to be read include: "Juneteenth for Mazie," "Free at Last: A Juneteenth Poem," and "The Juneteenth Story: Celebrating the End of Slavery in the United States." Throughout the month of June, MHS will be welcoming […]
Join us as we kickoff Civic Season Saturday, June 17, at the Putnam Museum. Visit our new regional history exhibit, Common Ground: Our Voice, Our Stories, and learn about our community's historic civic "superheroes." Explore our collective past through stories and artifacts as told through many diverse voices. There is plenty of room for reflection, […]
Celebrate Juneteenth—the annual holiday commemorating the end of legal slavery in the United States—with family-friendly art-making and activities in the Boeing Learning Center. Come see the official handwritten General Order No. 3 and learn about Arlington’s Freedman’s Village with educators from the National Archives Museum and Arlington National Cemetery. All ages are welcome! This program […]
Join us for a special screening featuring two genealogical researchers as they discuss what sparked their passion for genealogy, the methods they use, and the work and companies they've created as a result. Dennis Richmond Jr. has written books and articles and is a frequent public speaker about his experience; his day job is teaching […]
Share your story, connect with members of your community, and enjoy some survey-inspired trivia provided by the team behind America's Voice Project at the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. Civic Season is a new tradition to discover U.S. history – and your role in it – between Juneteenth and July 4th, […]
Discover the achievements of African Americans in medicine, journalism, the arts, activism, and during World War II in the Pittsburgh: A Tradition of Innovation exhibition. The tour will also wind through the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum to explore the city’s unmatched Negro League baseball legacy and the careers of groundbreaking Black athletes from our region.