Tulsa The Founder of Sand Springs Might Have Been a Real Weirdo (Or Worse) Russell Cobb’s newest history, Ghosts of Crook County, traces the life—and the alleged fraud—of Charles Page, that scion of Sand Springs, Oklahoma, whose name graces a statue and street signs along the Arkansas River. Z.B. Reeves 25 Oct 2024 · 2 min read
Oakland An Appointment With the Fates: Touring Mountain View Cemetery Mountain View Cemetery Tour 5500 Piedmont Ave. July 7, 2024 Fred Noland 10 Jul 2024 · 1 min read
Oakland Hope and History Celebrated Through Dance Fallen Heroes, Rising Stars: A Juneteenth Celebration Through Dance 494 9th St., Oakland June 22, 2024 On a closed-off block of 9th Street in Old Oakland, even the sun seemed Stacey Peters 28 Jun 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Playing Against Type: Finding The Keys To History In The Basement The American Revolution Experience Traveling Exhibit/Hartford History Exhibit CT Old State House Hartford April 9, 2024 I’m not a big fan of the American Revolution. I find it Jamil Ragland 11 Apr 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland A (Gertrude) Steinful of Oakland Gertrude Stein’s Oakland Oakland Public Library, Main Branch Through April 30, 2024 “When there was there and when it wasn’t or was it.” As one of Oakland’s Sarah Bass 27 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Come For The Art, Stay For The History (And The Historian) Spring Art Exhibit Garmany Visitor Center Elizabeth Park Hartford March 7, 2024 When I go to galleries, I’m usually self-guided and left to contemplate the artwork by myself. That’ Jamil Ragland 8 Mar 2024 · 3 min read
Oakland “Black Gold” Found In Oakland Museum Opening event Town Treasures: Black Migration Stories Camron-Stanford House Oakland Feb. 16, 2024 Even if you regularly walk along Lake Merritt in Oakland, you might not notice the Camron-Stanford House, Stacey Peters 19 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford How Violence Shaped Our History Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America Mark Twain House Hartford Jan. 19, 2024 My journey through college was not an easy one. It took me three different Jamil Ragland 22 Jan 2024 · 3 min read
Hartford Why The “Saints” Came Marching In When Two Worlds Met: Through European Eyes Stanley-Whitman House Farmington Nov. 16, 2023 The European colonization of the Americas is one of those world-altering events in history. There were nearly Jamil Ragland 17 Nov 2023 · 4 min read
New Haven Why “Enslaved” Individuals of Connecticut’s Colored Regiments New Haven Museum New Haven Nov. 11 One of the first things I noticed while listening to John Mills’s lecture about the experience Jamil Ragland 10 Nov 2023 · 3 min read
Hartford The More Things Change … Running For Office: Candidates, Campaigns, And The Cartoons Of Clifford Berryman Exhibit Connecticut Old State House, Hartford Through Nov. 11 One constant runs through American politics: Everyone thinks that their Jamil Ragland 11 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Black History, Both Lost and Found, at the Old State House Why Hartford’s Ethnic Heritage Matters Today Connecticut’s Old Statehouse 800 Main Street, Hartford Do you know who Catharine Freebody was? If you’ve never heard that name, you’ Jamil Ragland 6 Oct 2023 · 4 min read
NYC Can I Get A Yeehaw!? Cross That River 59E59 Theaters Theater B New York, NY Through Oct. 8, 2023 Most folks probably wouldn’t be able to guess that a quarter of American cowboys were Adam Wassilchalk 29 Sep 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford Royalty’s Ghost Comes To Hartford What happens to us when we die? Cultures across time have attempted to answer that question, combining the beginning of all things with the end of our mortal lives in Jamil Ragland 18 Sep 2023 · 3 min read
Oakland Mini Museum Preserves Black Panther Art Of Revolution As with any political or social movement, visual art, from murals to posters to newspaper illustrations, played a central role in the Black Panther’s efforts to promote revolutionary change. Sarah Bass 17 Aug 2023 · 4 min read
Hartford The Person In The Portrait: Seeing Through Frederick Douglass’ Eyes Frederick Douglass stands next to Harriet Tubman as the only people I describe as heroes. They demonstrated enormous courage even when they didn’t have to. Both had escaped slavery, Jamil Ragland 4 Aug 2023 · 3 min read
Tulsa
