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All events are at 12:30 p.m.
April 5: New York State as a Leader in Environmental Protection
May 10: December 1813: The Fall of Fort Niagara and the Burning of the Niagara Frontier
June 7: History Education: Bringing History Organizations and Educators Together
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Hidden in the Archives: Stories of New York's Forgotten Female Figures
Tuesday, March 15
12:30 p.m.
Jennifer Burns is a Lecturer in the Department of Africana Studies at the University at Albany. She earned her masters and doctoral degrees in American History from the History Department at UAlbany and her doctoral dissertation, Black Trojans: The Grassroots Abolition Campaign of the Free Black Community in Troy, New York before 1861, was awarded the 2019 Distinguished Dissertation Award. She has presented at numerous community events and conferences, received numerous awards, and is a frequent panelist on WAMC’s The RoundTable Program. Dr. Burns also serves on the Executive Board of the Underground Railroad Education Center (Albany) and The Hart Cluett Museum (Troy).
Amy Murrell Taylor is the T. Marshall Hahn Jr. Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. She is an historian of the 19th century U.S., with a focus on the era of the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, and her books include Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps (UNC Press, 2018). She previously taught in the History department at the University at Albany, SUNY.
Jasmine Bumpers is an archivist at the New York State Archives. She also serves as an editorial consultant for New York Archives magazine.
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