How a one-day seminar inspired a APUSH teacher, the election of Hiram Rhodes Revels, and more
- Merinda Davis_lkjh
- Mar 4, 2022
- 2 min read
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by Ellen Tucker Visiting the Teaching American History website, Ryan DeMarco was delighted to learn of a free online, interactive seminar on “Slavery and Its Consequences,” to be taught by Eric Sands of Berry College. DeMarco is the history department chair at North Cross School in Roanoke, Virginia—a city at some distance from larger cities where in-person seminars are often held. He’d been looking for “a discussion,” not a lecture, on American history, but one led by a scholar with expertise. “I love being able to ask the professor questions and get clarification,” DeMarco said. Read more... Hiram Rhodes Revels: The First Black Senator by TAH StaffOn February 25, 1870, the first African American ever elected to the office of Senator was sworn in. Hiram Rhodes Revels was elected by the Republican-dominated Mississippi legislature to fill out the unexpired term of Jefferson Davis. Revels had distinguished himself in a variety of leadership roles; he had worked from Maryland to Mississippi as a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church; he was a recruiter of black regiments in the Union Army; he served as an army chaplain; and organized schools for freedmen. Read more...
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