James Brewer Stewart\u2019s casual couch conversations with white folks concludes March 16 after a week packed with Black history mini-lectures. The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum is following its February\u00a0\u201cBlack History Matters\u201d\u00a0series with March days of\u00a0\u201cJim Stewart\u2019s Historical Tonic for Fragile White Folks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
March 1, Stewart,\u00a0professor emeritus\u00a0at Macalester College in Minnesota, addressed white supremacy after the Civil War. Stewart sees his video series as a way to challenge the \u201chistorical amnesia\u201d that exists about white supremacy and hopes that the public will engage with the series and encourage family, friends and colleagues to do the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stewart is also available to collaborate on programming with community organizations and educational institutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next set of \u201cHistorical Tonics\u201d are March 8 and 9 with \u201cThrilling Sagas\u201d and \u201cHappy Endings.\u201d March 10 and 11 are \u201cBack to Black Reconstruction\u201d and \u201cBack to White Reconstruction: Inching Back into Slavery.\u201d March 12 is \u201cPreparing for Mass Murder,\u201d followed March 13 with \u201cProceeding with Mass Murder.\u201d March 14 is \u201cWhite City, White Nation,\u201d and March 15 will be \u201cWhat Civil War? White Peacemaking,\u201d and the conclusion program March 16 is \u201cRebirth of a Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stewart has written extensively on the history of the American Abolition movement, including several books on individual abolitionists. He is the founder of Historians against Slavery and also the founder and director of the Celebrate American Heroes Project.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Chartered by the Board of Regents\/state Education Department, NAHOF honors antislavery abolitionists, their work to end slavery, the legacy of that struggle and strives to complete the second and ongoing abolition \u2013 the moral conviction to end racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NAHOF is located in historic Peterboro in the 200-year-old building in which state abolitionists held the inaugural meeting of the New York State Antislavery Society in 1835; the Gerrit Smith Estate National Historic Landmark is an Underground Railroad site also located in Peterboro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Brewer Stewart\u2019s casual couch conversations with white folks concludes March 16 after a week packed with Black history mini-lectures. The National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum is following its February\u00a0\u201cBlack History Matters\u201d\u00a0series with March days of\u00a0\u201cJim Stewart\u2019s Historical Tonic for Fragile White Folks.\u201d March 1, Stewart,\u00a0professor emeritus\u00a0at Macalester College in Minnesota, addressed white […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22367,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}