Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Mac Griswold talks about Long Island’s Sylvester Manor and the family that has lived there since its founding as a slave plantation centuries ago. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation describes how the house proved to be a hidden vault full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson.
MAC GRISWOLD WILL BE SPEAKING AND GIVING TOURS AT SYLVESTER MANOR ON SHELTER ISLAND
Saturday, August 17, 2013 2:00 PM
Sylvester Manor Educational Farm is a 243-acre historic plantation and nonprofit educational farm on Shelter Island, NY, engaging all ages in farm-based programs.
Sylvester Manor history will be in the spotlight in 2013. Over 10,000 Sylvester family records archived at the New York University will be on exhibition at the Bobst Library from April 10 to mid July. A book by archaeologist Kat Hayes will be published this year, revealing the manor’s early role in the global economy as Europeans, enslaved Africans and Manhanset Indians came together at this northern plantation. Programs in New York City and Shelter Island will celebrate these historical achievements. Also, Sylvester Manor is featured in the spring edition of Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Places.
Please explore this website and see how you can play a role in this new era at Sylvester Manor.
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Mac Griswold’s The Manor
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Saturday, August 4, 2012
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| Charting the Future of Teaching the Past |
The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities.
This curriculum teaches students how to investigate historical questions employing reading strategies such as sourcing, contextualizing, corroborating, and close reading. Instead of memorizing historical facts, students evaluate the trustworthiness of multiple perspectives on issues from King Philip's War to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and make historical claims backed by documentary evidence.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
A New Historical Fiction by Leonard Pitts, Jr.
"I so love this story! Mr. Pitts has done it again. The man crafts a novel as well as the great storytellers of our time. "Freeman" captured my attention from the very first sentence and my heart throughout. Sam and Tilda will stay with me for a very long time. I can't let them go." --- Reviewed by Sybil Wilkes, co-host of the Tom Joyner Morning Show, a nationally syndicated radio program heard in over 115 markets with an audience of more than eight million.
In 2004, Pitts was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1992. In 1997, Pitts took first place for commentary in division four (newspapers with a circulation of over 300,000) in the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors' Ninth Annual Writing Awards competition. His recent columns on the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman have garnered much attention from his peers and readers alike. Click here to read the archive of columns by Leonard Pitts Jr.
In 2004, Pitts was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. He was also a finalist for the Pulitzer in 1992. In 1997, Pitts took first place for commentary in division four (newspapers with a circulation of over 300,000) in the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors' Ninth Annual Writing Awards competition. His recent columns on the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman have garnered much attention from his peers and readers alike. Click here to read the archive of columns by Leonard Pitts Jr.
Freeman
Book Summary
'Freeman': A Liberated Slave In Search Of Family
"To me, it's such a fascinating and little known fact that all of these African-Americans newly freed slaves went to such lengths to reconstitute their marriages and reconstitute their families," he says.
"In terms of the emotional aspect of it, if I've been owned all of my life and I'm 20, 30, 40 years old, I have to define for myself intellectually and emotionally what freedom means, and what I can now do," Pitts says.
NABJ Journal the Journalist of the Year, page 10
“I always knew I was a writer. It was not a matter of deciding, it was a matter of accepting what I already was."
“His columns speak to those silenced by poverty, violence and discrimination.” ... Pitts, ...writes a twice-weekly column for The Miami Herald
NABJ Journal the Journalist of the Year, page 10
“I always knew I was a writer. It was not a matter of deciding, it was a matter of accepting what I already was."
“His columns speak to those silenced by poverty, violence and discrimination.” ... Pitts, ...writes a twice-weekly column for The Miami Herald
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Brooklyn Museum Pins Its Digitized Photos to Historypin's Map
Brooklyn Museum Pins Its Digitized Photos to Historypin's Map - NYTimes.com
Using New Tools, Mapping Old Brooklyn
When the digital team at the Brooklyn Museum first looked at the New York images included on Historypin, a social sharing site for old images, something seemed to be missing.
“They had nothing in Brooklyn,” said Shelley Bernstein, the museum’s chief of technology.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
B Movie - Gil Scott Heron
From Sho-gun to Rea-gun. Gil Scott Heron lays it all out for you in this one. I don't know much about this guy but I ran across this video on BrassCheckTV.com. They're a great website for infowar videos...check them out.
Gil Scott Heron - Bicentennial Blues LIVE
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Marvin Gaye's What's Going On: A Departure That Defined A Generation
Cover of What's Going on'What's Going On': A Departure That Defined A Generation - WNYCMarvin Gaye's What's Going On. Marvin Gaye's album dropped into this America on May 21, 1971.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Gaye-s-message-still-true-1398168.php#ixzz1O5CNHMVHForty years ago, one of Motown's greatest soul singers released a ground-breaking album. Forty years ago today, Marvin Gaye's album "What's Going On?" was released. It was sweet, sad and had bite. Without being explicit or obvious, it seemed to sing at the era of marching in the streets and mourning for those who died, both overseas and in the struggle for civil rights at home. The song seemed to catch the wave of history, became a huge hit.
"What's Going On" served as an anthem of social awareness."Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Gaye-s-message-still-true-1398168.php#ixzz1O5CNHMVHForty years ago, one of Motown's greatest soul singers released a ground-breaking album. Forty years ago today, Marvin Gaye's album "What's Going On?" was released. It was sweet, sad and had bite. Without being explicit or obvious, it seemed to sing at the era of marching in the streets and mourning for those who died, both overseas and in the struggle for civil rights at home. The song seemed to catch the wave of history, became a huge hit.
"What's Going On, an album filled with introspective lyrics regarding a country divided by war, could be applied to what's happening today."
Transcript
"It's interesting. You could almost, like, draw comparisons to, like, the last several years in the U.S. You know, I think we're in three wars and the country itself is going broke. You know, if Marvin was here in he'd probably be singing about it"
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Today, the United States is still engaged in wars abroad that have taken a huge financial and human toll. Today, racism still lurks beneath the surface, poverty and economic inequality remain with us, and corporate interests continue to destroy the environment.
Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/default/article/Gaye-s-message-still-true-1398168.php#ixzz1O5CdYnjI
Friday, May 27, 2011
Abraham Lincoln (December 1, 1862) Quote
Abraham Lincoln (December 1, 1862)
"The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), U.S. president. annual message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862. Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, vol. 5, p. 537, Rutgers University Press (1953, 1990).
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Saturday, May 7, 2011
William Monroe Trotter Institute Mission Statement
Image via WikipediaWilliam Monroe Trotter Institute Mission StatementWilliam Monroe Trotter, 1872-1934
William Monroe Trotter helped to found the Niagara Movement, the precursor of the NAACP, and a major milestone in the Negro Protest Movement of the twentieth century.
In March, 1901, he helped organize the Boston Literary and Historical Association, a group that became a forum for militant race opinion. Trotter became more active in discussions about race, and in November, 1901, the first issue of Trotter's newspaper The Guardian appeared, proclaiming itself an organ to voice intelligently the needs and aspirations of the colored American.
The editorials made The Guardian notorious and prompted its readers to strongly-felt opinions. Week after week, Trotter attacked the person, prestige and racial policies of Booker T. Washington. Their bitter rivalry led eventually to lawsuits and counter suits. William Monroe Trotter considered himself much more of an activist than the Bookerites who would go along with policies detrimental to Black people.
Trotter founded the Niagara Movement with W.E.B. DuBois and others. He became a critic of politicians, especially Roosevelt and Wilson. When Wilson encouraged the segregation of employees in government departments, Trotter objected. In an interview with Wilson, Trotter astonished the President by arguing with him. Trotter afterward quoted the President to the press, an action considered to be a violation of courtesy, but his action did reveal that Wilson was aware of the segregation and defended it. In 1915 Trotter organized opposition to the showing of the film Birth of A Nation at the Tremont Theater.
Trotter was the first black elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard and graduated in 1895 Magna Cum Laude.
Trotter was the first black elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard and graduated in 1895 Magna Cum Laude.
For the pdf version of an article on Trotter by Anthony Sammarco that appeared in the Dorchester Community News on Feb. 22, 2002 Click here.
Unlike DuBois, Trotter was the more forceful and persistent of the radicals as their opposition to Washington mounted. Trotter's approach was best exemplified in the confrontation which occurred in Boston on July 30, 1903. He proposed to use the occasion of a speech by Washington before the Boston Branch of the National Business League to ask him nine questions relating to his program and its results. As Trotter stood on a chair in an attempt to read his nine questions, he and his sister were arrested, leaving Washington free to deliver his speech. The incident was quickly labeled the "Boston riot" and received widespread coverage
Although Trotter maintained that he had not gone to the meeting for purposes of disruption, he ably accomplished his major goal of directing national attention to the fact that there were some blacks who disagreed with Washington and his program. Trotter's sentence of thirty days in jail encouraged Du Bois to join forces with him.
After the "riot," Trotter formed the Boston Suffrage League. The League was expanded into the New England Suffrage League as blacks from other areas joined. The aim of the group was to place before the American people wrongs against the claims of blacks. Trotter was elected president. He pressed for anti-lynching legislation, the expenditure of one hundred-twenty million dollars a year on southern schools until 1925, the elimination of segregation on interstate carriers and the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment.
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W.E.B. Du Bois (seated), and (left to right) J.R. Clifford, L.M. Hershaw, and F.H.M. Murray at Harpers Ferry.
Unlike DuBois, Trotter was the more forceful and persistent of the radicals as their opposition to Washington mounted. Trotter's approach was best exemplified in the confrontation which occurred in Boston on July 30, 1903. He proposed to use the occasion of a speech by Washington before the Boston Branch of the National Business League to ask him nine questions relating to his program and its results. As Trotter stood on a chair in an attempt to read his nine questions, he and his sister were arrested, leaving Washington free to deliver his speech. The incident was quickly labeled the "Boston riot" and received widespread coverage
Although Trotter maintained that he had not gone to the meeting for purposes of disruption, he ably accomplished his major goal of directing national attention to the fact that there were some blacks who disagreed with Washington and his program. Trotter's sentence of thirty days in jail encouraged Du Bois to join forces with him.
After the "riot," Trotter formed the Boston Suffrage League. The League was expanded into the New England Suffrage League as blacks from other areas joined. The aim of the group was to place before the American people wrongs against the claims of blacks. Trotter was elected president. He pressed for anti-lynching legislation, the expenditure of one hundred-twenty million dollars a year on southern schools until 1925, the elimination of segregation on interstate carriers and the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment.
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Image via WikipediaW.E.B. Du Bois (seated), and (left to right) J.R. Clifford, L.M. Hershaw, and F.H.M. Murray at Harpers Ferry.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
WGBH American Experience . Panama Canal . Then & Now | PBS
Stephen Ives, producer and director of “Panama Canal,” tells of the drama behind the creation of the canal, which opened August 15, 1914, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and ushering in America as a global superpower. Building the canal took over a decade of grinding work, cost $350 million, and took more than 5,000 livesWGBH American Experience . Panama Canal . Then & Now | PBS
Stephen Ives, producer and director of “Panama Canal,” tells of the drama behind the creation of the canal, which opened August 15, 1914, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and ushering in America as a global superpower. Building the canal took over a decade of grinding work, cost $350 million, and took more than 5,000 lives.
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