Category: National Park Service Article

Categories
National Park Service Article

9 Daniels Street and the Polish American Citizens Club

By National Park Service March 23, 2023

Founded in 1916, the Polish American Citizens Club seems to have emerged from older efforts to promote citizenship and naturalization among Salem’s Polish immigrants. With its close ties to religious, fraternal, cultural, military, and other groups in the city, the region, and Polish America in general, it was effective in registering Polish American voters and electing politicians.

Read More
Categories
National Park Service Article

Luis F. Emilio: Captain and Story Keeper of the 54th MA Regiment

By National Park Service March 23, 2023

Captain Luis F. Emilio, the son of Spanish immigrants, served with the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment and emerged as the acting commander after many officers were killed or wounded at the assault on Fort Wagner. In 1891, he wrote of the history of the 54th in his book “A Brave Black Regiment.”

Read More
Categories
National Park Service Article

New England Woman’s Tea Party

By National Park Service January 8, 2023

In 1873, Lucy Stone spoke in front of a crow of 3,000 individuals at Faneuil Hall. Her words would energize the women’s rights movement not only in Boston, but throughout the United States.

Read More
Categories
National Park Service Article

Slavery at the Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House: Introduction

By National Park Service December 27, 2021

Slavery and its extension into the new western territories plunged the United States into a terrible and bloody civil war in the 1860s, but the story did not start or end with the war. Today, we can access this history through the house and people associated with Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site over its long history.

Read More
Categories
National Park Service Article

Enslavement and Enlistment

By National Park Service December 27, 2021

Examine how changing Massachusetts laws concerning the enlistment of men of color in the military affected their opportunities to serve during the Revolution as well as their chances of being emancipated, if enslaved.

Read More
Categories
National Park Service Article

Independence or Freedom

By National Park Service December 27, 2021

What would enslaved men hope to gain by fighting on the side of the revolutionaries for a liberty that was not conceived to include them? What effects did revolutionary service on either side, revolutionary of British, have on the subsequent lives of men of color who were enslaved at the outset of the conflict, and the subsequent lives of their families?

Read More