Cornell University Professor of History Margaret Washington will present "'Lincoln Must be Pushed: Civil War and Agitation before the Emancipation Proclamation,” Monday, October 3 at 6:30 PM in the Tompkins County Public Library.
The second program in a five-year partnership between the Library and the Tompkins County Civil War Sesquicentennial Celebration Commission (TCCWSCC) to provide opportunities for community conversation and increased awareness about the Civil War, Washington’s lecture will provide a look at the roles of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth in the fight for emancipation.
Washington joined the Cornell University faculty in 1988 and specializes in African American history and culture, African American women and the American South. She has been a Fellow at the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Fellow at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities and Senior Fellow at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities. She has published numerous articles and books including the only edited and annotated edition of the “Narrative of Sojourner Truth” and “Sojourner Truth’s America,” which received the Letitia Woods Brown Award for the best publication on African American women from the Association of Black Women Historians and won the inaugural Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book in African American women’s and gender history from the Organization of American Historians.
As a public historian, Washington has consulted for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service. the National Archives and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has also served as an advisor and historical consultant for a number of films including the much-acclaimed “Jazz” and Sundance Award winner “Daughter’s of the Dust.”
Other programs being planned as part of the Library/TCCWSCC partnership, which will provide Library patrons and community members with at least two annual opportunities to learn, from regionally-recognized experts, about the people, issues, themes and lasting impacts of the Civil War, include programs about: Northern Democrats, Civil War nurses, the Elmira Prison Camp, and the legacy of war.
These and all Library programs are free and open to the public.
For more information about Library programs, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 248. For information about the Tompkins County Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration Commission, contact Carol Kammen, Tompkins County historian, at ckk6@cornell.edu.
The second program in a five-year partnership between the Library and the Tompkins County Civil War Sesquicentennial Celebration Commission (TCCWSCC) to provide opportunities for community conversation and increased awareness about the Civil War, Washington’s lecture will provide a look at the roles of Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony and Sojourner Truth in the fight for emancipation.
Washington joined the Cornell University faculty in 1988 and specializes in African American history and culture, African American women and the American South. She has been a Fellow at the National Endowment for the Humanities, a Fellow at Cornell’s Society for the Humanities and Senior Fellow at Wesleyan University’s Center for the Humanities. She has published numerous articles and books including the only edited and annotated edition of the “Narrative of Sojourner Truth” and “Sojourner Truth’s America,” which received the Letitia Woods Brown Award for the best publication on African American women from the Association of Black Women Historians and won the inaugural Darlene Clark Hine Award for the best book in African American women’s and gender history from the Organization of American Historians.
As a public historian, Washington has consulted for the Smithsonian Institution, the National Park Service. the National Archives and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has also served as an advisor and historical consultant for a number of films including the much-acclaimed “Jazz” and Sundance Award winner “Daughter’s of the Dust.”
Other programs being planned as part of the Library/TCCWSCC partnership, which will provide Library patrons and community members with at least two annual opportunities to learn, from regionally-recognized experts, about the people, issues, themes and lasting impacts of the Civil War, include programs about: Northern Democrats, Civil War nurses, the Elmira Prison Camp, and the legacy of war.
These and all Library programs are free and open to the public.
For more information about Library programs, contact Carrie Wheeler-Carmenatty at cwheeler@tcpl.org or (607) 272-4557 extension 248. For information about the Tompkins County Civil War Sesquicentennial Commemoration Commission, contact Carol Kammen, Tompkins County historian, at ckk6@cornell.edu.
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