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Last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 390, the “Preservation of Records of Servitude, Emancipation, and Post-Civil War Reconstruction Act.” The bipartisan vote was 414 to 1. The bill directs the National Archives to establish a national searchable database of “historic records of servitude, emancipation, and post-Civil War reconstruction, including the Southern Claims Commission Records, Records of the Freedmen’s …Continue reading →

Carter Godwin Woodson was the son of former slaves whose early education was spotty, to say the least. But by the time he was he twenty-two, he had obtained his high school diploma. He later received a masters degree from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. His early experiences no doubt informed his 1933 book, The …Continue reading →