Uncle Sam Recruitment Poster
ArtifactUncle Sam Recruitment PosterCollection40 Acres and A MuleThe African American Museumat the England ManorShare
The Cow Bell Mei (student) A cowbell was worn around the necks of free roaming animals. Herders use it to keep track of the animals. The cowbells are handmade from iron, which is cold-hammered and folded on an anvil until it is cup-shaped. Small pieces…
Freedman’s Bureau Jayla (Student) The United States Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as the Freedmen’s Bureau, was created by Congress in 1865 to assist in the political and social reconstruction of post-war Southern states and to help formerly enslaved people make…
The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877 by Kenneth M. Stampp Jeremiah (Student) In The Era Of Reconstruction, Stampp’s book showed that the period following the Civil War was marked not only by “devastation of the white south by the north but rather a clear-eyed and determined…