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Access Your Ancestors: Introduction To Free Online Genealogy Resources, Sarah Myers
Access Your Ancestors: Introduction To Free Online Genealogy Resources, Sarah Myers
Library Staff Presentations & Publications
Wednesday, March 10, 202110:00 am - 11:00 am
Virtual on Zoom
Are you interested in finding out about your family history and climbing your family tree? This course will be an introduction to online genealogy resources that are free to use and easily accessible to anyone with internet access. Find census, birth, marriage, military, and death records with ease and without spending a dime. This class will energize you to make discoveries on what makes your family unique, special, and downright interesting.
All participants will receive a resource packet to organize and keep track of their findings. In addition to …
2021 Virtual Humanities Symposium: A Conversation On Freedom, Messiah University
2021 Virtual Humanities Symposium: A Conversation On Freedom, Messiah University
Humanities Symposium
Keynote Lecture: Troubling the Narratives of a Democratic Nation: "Whose Stories Are These?" Jacqueline Jones Royster
Date: Thursday, March 4th, 2021
In 2020, the Center for Public Humanities had the remarkable opportunity to join “The Commonwealth Monument project,” a coalition of citizens, organizations, educators, and legislators dedicated to establishing a new bronze monument on the Pennsylvania State Capitol that honors Harrisburg’s rich African American history and pays tribute to the U.S. Constitution’s 15th and 19th amendments, which secured the vote for African Americans and for women. The dedication of this new monument, “A Gathering at the Crossroads” (pictured above) took …