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SIEBERT RESEARCH FILES AVAILABLE ON MICROFILM
The Ohio Historical Society announces the availability of a new microfilm
edition of the Wilbur H. Siebert Collection, a premiere resource for
studying the Underground Railroad. Siebert was a professor at the Ohio
State University from 1891-1935. His research material on anti-slavery
activity, collected over a period of fifty years, includes survey
responses, interviews, and copies and notes from books, diaries, letters,
photographs, newspapers, biographies, memoirs, speeches, annual reports,
trial records, census records, and legislation. He organized his research
by state and county, eventually binding his notes in volumes by location. A
detailed finding aid is available online.
Microfilm may be borrowed through Interlibrary Loan or purchased for $50.00
per roll.
For more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/undergroundrr/.
LECTURE BY KATE MASUR ON CONTRABANDS AND SLAVE EMANCIPATION, LIBRARY OF
CONGRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 2005
The John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress presents Kluge Fellow,
Kate Masur, in a lecture titled "'Contrabands' and the Meanings of Slave
Emancipation in the United States" on Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 12:00
p.m. in LJ-119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress, 10 First
Street SE, Washington, DC. This program is free and open to the public; no
reservations are required.
In the early days of the Civil War, Union General Benjamin Butler
designated escaping slaves as "contraband of war." The word "contraband"
instantly became a popular phenomenon, adopted throughout Northern culture
to refer to African Americans fleeing to freedom. Contemporary uses of the
term and debates over its meaning shed light on a society grappling with
fundamental questions of freedom, citizenship, and diversity. Dr. Masur's
presentation will highlight textual and visual sources in the collections
of the Library of Congress.
A FIRESIDE LECTURE WITH NANCY WEBSTER ON THE HISTORY OF THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD IN DELAWARE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2005
Nancy Webster is a prominent Quaker historian who has lectured and written
extensively about the Underground Railroad in Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
The lecture will be given at the Peace Center of Delaware County
(Springfield Friends Meeting House), 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield,
Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
The lecture is a prelude to the Third Annual Delaware County Peace Festival
to be held on Saturday, May 14th, with the theme of "Celebrating the
Underground Railroad." For more information on the lecture and festival,
call 610-328-2424.
FRIENDS HISTORICAL LIBRARY OF SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, HONORARY CURATORS'
LECTURE, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2005, 7:30 PM, BOND HALL, SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
"The Jubilee of Acquiescence and Triumph, or How History Remembers Lucretia
Mott," by Carol Faulkner, State University of New York at Geneseo.
Free and Open to the Public.
Carol Faulkner is the author of Women's Radical Reconstruction: The
Freedmen's Aid Movement (2003), a co-editor of the Selected Letters of
Lucretia Coffin Mott (2002), and numerous articles on the Freeman's Aid
Movement. She is currently working on a book about the life of Lucretia
Mott, and was the recipient of the Moore Fellowship at Friends Historical
Library in 2004. She is Assistant Professor of History at the State
University of New York at Geneseo and a recipient of the State University
of New York Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
For information, contact Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College,
500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399, 610-328-8496 or [email protected]
Christopher Densmore
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
March 15, 2005
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