BLOW YE THE TRUMPET, BLOW!- June
The Camp Nelson Foundation and the Jessamine County Fiscal Court in partnership with the Bluegrass Arts Association present: BLOW YE THE TRUMPET, BLOW! a docudrama comissioned through a grant from the Kentucky Arts Council. Written by Donna Phillips & Georgie Riddell
During the American Civil War brave African-American men, women and children escaped to union camps for a chance at freedom. BLOW YE THE TRUMPET, BLOW! is a work of historical fiction based on the affidavit of Private Joseph Miller, a union soldier with the U.S. Colored Infantry who resided with his wife and children at Camp Nelson. In the winter of 1864 General Fry commanded the Negro women and children be removed from Camp Nelson. The tragedy that unfolded as a result of General Fry's cruelty, changed history. You are guaranteed to laugh and cry as you experience a day in the lives of the African-Americans who took refuge at Camp Nelson during such terrible times. The drama includes beautiful hymns, spirituals and slave songs from the era. Private Joseph Millier and his family are interred at Camp Nelson. For tickets go to www.bluegrassarts.org.
- Confederate President Jefferson Davis calls for March 27 to be a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer.
- Following the Underground Railroad Route By Bicycle
- March is Women's History Month! Read the fascinating accounts of women spies hiding coded messages in women's hair, conductors of the Underground Railroad, soldiers disguised as men, surgeons, and advisors to the President!
- Teachers tackle race, economic disparity and history
- The President's Hymn: 'Give Thanks All Ye People'
- Thanksgiving Day during the Civil War
- Lincoln’s Thanksgiving proclamation in a divided time: ‘one heart and one voice by the whole American People’
- What Abraham Lincoln found reading the Book of Job amid civil war
- Civil War stories on display at Lincoln Highway museum in Unity
- Who was Henry Benning, for whom Fort Benning in Columbus was named?
- Fort Gordon Army Base: Who was John Brown Gordon?
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- History and Healing: Removing Controversial Artifacts from the Civic Landscape
- How to Reframe the Civil War in the Classroom
- Man scores Abraham Lincoln autograph in box of trading cards
- Native Americans' role in the Civil War
- Abraham Lincoln Healed a Divided Nation. We Should Heed His Words Today.
- An escaped slave was the 'Florence Nightingale’ of Indiana's Civil War regiment
- A Southern Democrat survived impeachment trap and came to be in charge of Reconstruction
- New Statue Unveiled In Response To Richmond's Confederate Monuments