Author: Liza Rodman

the very story of Abraham Lincoln. History calls him the great emancipator and while the moniker has some teeth, the truth was much more collaborative. Kind of like Jamie Lee Curits’s Oscar acceptance speech on Sunday night.  In January of 1864, Lincoln feared the war and the Union was lost. He consulted with Frederick Douglas and…

Did you know that when Richmond fell to the Union on April 3rd, 1865, the US Colored Troops soldiers were among the first to march into Richmond and conquer the capital of the Confederacy?  The 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It is credited as being the first infantry…