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Park Ranger Rich Condon interviews Heather Hodges, Executive Director of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor about the role of the Corridor Commission in preserving and sharing the Reconstruction experiences of the Gullah Geechee communities.
- Duration:
- 19 minutes, 29 seconds
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Community Volunteer Ambassador Alissa of Stones River National Battlefield, Mary Watkins of the African American Heritage Society of Rutherford County, and historian Dr. Rebecca Conard, discuss the unique Freedman community in middle Tennessee. The Cemetery Community takes its name from the Stones River National Cemetery, where formerly enslaved Black people lived, attended worship services, and worked in agriculture.
- Duration:
- 43 minutes, 13 seconds
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To mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment, Park Ranger Rich Condon interviews Park Range Lauren Devore from Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument about the Reconstruction era roots of the women's suffrage movement.
- Duration:
- 15 minutes, 44 seconds
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To celebrate National Public Lands Day 2020, Community Volunteers from around the country share their favorite things about our public lands.
- Duration:
- 4 minutes, 24 seconds
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Park Ranger Chris Barr interviews Park Ranger Gary Bremen from Reconstruction Era National Historical Park about the Jones family and the Reconstruction era freedman community around the present day national park.
- Duration:
- 16 minutes, 35 seconds
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Join Park Rangers Steve Phan from Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument and Rich Condon from Reconstruction Era National Historical Park on this joint ranger talk exploring the history of African American military service from Camp Saxton in 1862 through the career of Colonel Charles Young at the end of Reconstruction.
- Duration:
- 13 minutes, 16 seconds
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Community Volunteer Ambassador Kaley Crawford interviews Theodore Johnson and Andrew Mentrup from Timucuan Ecological & Historic Preserve about how that park interprets Reconstruction and the process of emancipation among the Gullah Geechee community in North Florida.
- Duration:
- 37 minutes, 21 seconds
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Park Ranger Chris Barr interviews Beth Parnicza, the Chief of Interpretation at Appomattox Courthouse National Historical Park, about how the park tells their Reconstruction story at the end of the Civil War.
- Duration:
- 14 minutes, 39 seconds
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Park Ranger Chris Barr interviews John Rudy, a park ranger and interpretive trainer at the NPS's Mather Training Center in Harpers Ferry, WV. The Mather Training Center is located in the historic campus of Mather College, an HBCU established during Reconstruction.
- Duration:
- 18 minutes, 29 seconds
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Park Ranger Chris Barr interviews Reed Robinson, a tribal liaison for the National Park Service, about how NPS sites can include tribal stories and perspectives as we interpret the Reconstruction era West.
- Duration:
- 22 minutes, 31 seconds
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Park Ranger Chris Barr interviews Alvesta Robertson, who is a member of the alumni association for the Mather School in Beaufort, SC and is the church historian for Wesley United Methodist Church. The school was established during Reconstruction, and the church, just a few blocks from the park visitor center, served as a school as well.
- Duration:
- 18 minutes, 16 seconds
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Community Volunteer Ambassador Kaley Crawford interviews Park Ranger Andrew Miller from Vicksburg National Military Park about how Vicksburg can tell its important Reconstruction stories that took place during and after the Civil War.
- Duration:
- 30 minutes, 27 seconds
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In this unique 'episode' of Ranger Chats on Reconstruction, Park Ranger Chris Barr from Reconstruction Era National Historical Park moderates a roundtable discussion with Park Rangers Todd Arrington from James A. Garfield National Historic Site, Emma Murphy from Andrew Johnson National Historic Site, and Nick Sacco from Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site, about how Presidential sites in the NPS can talk about Reconstruction.
- Duration:
- 48 minutes, 31 seconds
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Park Ranger Chris Barr interviews Superintendent Enimini Ekong from Nicodemus National Historic Site about the 1870s Freedmen community that moved to Kansas and established the community of Nicodemus, today preserved as part of the national park system.
- Duration:
- 17 minutes, 48 seconds
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Park Ranger Chris Barr interviews Park Ranger Jon Manchester from Congaree National Park about the African American community that lived and worked in the present day park boundaries during and after the Civil War.
- Duration:
- 11 minutes, 32 seconds
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In 1889, Johnstown, PA was flooded by a broken dam, prompting a massive response by the government and the Red Cross. Just four years later, most of the South Carolina Lowcountry was devastated by a hurricane. Park Ranger Rich Condon from Reconstruction Era National Historical Park and Park Ranger Doug Bosley from Johnston Flood National Memorial explore the varying responses to disasters during Reconstruction.
- Duration:
- 9 minutes, 19 seconds
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Park Ranger Rich Condon interviews Jake Wynn, Director of Interpretation for the National Museum of Civil War Medicine and Clara Barton Missing Soldiers Office, about Clara Barton's role in connecting families to their lost loved ones in the period of Reconstruction.
- Duration:
- 15 minutes, 26 seconds
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Park Ranger Rich Condon interviews Diane Klinefelter, Curator of the Thomas Espy GAR Post 153 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, about the experiences of African American veterans in the North during the Reconstruction period.
- Duration:
- 14 minutes, 28 seconds
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Park Ranger Rich Condon interviews Ahmad Ward, the director of the Mitchelville Freedom Park in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Mitchelville was established in 1862 as the first self governing community of African Americans at the dawn of Reconstruction
- Duration:
- 12 minutes, 33 seconds
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Scott Teodorski, Superintendent of Reconstruction Era National Historical Park, and Congressman James Clyburn, announce the first community sites to be added to the Reconstruction Era National Historical Network, on November 23, 2020.
- Duration:
- 5 minutes
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For this episode of "Ranger Chats on Reconstruction," park ranger Chris Barr interviews park ranger Jocelyn Gould from Boston National Historical Park about the influence of antebellum abolitionists on the process of emancipation in places like Beaufort. The conversation also highlights a virtual field trip for school groups exploring an 1873 meeting at Fanueil Hall. For information about scheduling a virtual field trip visit www.nps.gov/boaf
- Duration:
- 16 minutes, 18 seconds
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The staff at Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site collaborate with Reconstruction Era National Historical Park to highlight this important site's connection to the Reconstruction era.
- Duration:
- 3 minutes, 50 seconds
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For this episode of "Ranger Chats on Reconstruction," we spoke with Adonnnica Toler of the Ritz Theater and Museum in Jacksonville, Florida discuss the freedman community of LaVilla and the legacy of many influential African Americans' whose roots began there."
- Duration:
- 39 minutes, 19 seconds
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Education, women, youth, and race: these were the passions of Mary McLeod Bethune. In honor of women's history month, we are joined by Ranger John Fowler of National Capitol Parks East to discuss the life and legacy of Mrs. Bethune. The daughter of two formerly enslaved people, she worked her entire life, from the Reconstruction Era and beyond, to bring education and equality to Black students throughout the South.
- Duration:
- 46 minutes, 26 seconds
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Park Ranger Rich Condon interviews Nate Johnson, the site manager for Rose Hill Plantation State Historic Site about how the site interprets the Reconstruction story in Union County, SC. Rose Hill is managed by the South Carolina State Parks, and is also listed in the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network
- Duration:
- 15 minutes, 28 seconds
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Park Ranger Rich Condon interviews Erica Veal, Project Archivist and Interpretation Specialist at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, to talk about the history and legacy of Charleston's first accredited secondary school for African Americans."
- Duration:
- 10 minutes, 57 seconds
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In this episode of "Ranger Chats on Reconstruction", Park Ranger Rich Condon interviews Park Ranger Kevin Bryant of Frederick Douglas National Historic Site about how that site interprets the life and legacy of Frederick Douglass during the Reconstruction era.
- Duration:
- 12 minutes, 34 seconds
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For this episode of "Ranger Chats on Reconstruction", park ranger Rich Condon speaks with Timika Wilson and Kate Borchard Shoen, of the Union County Community Remembrance Project, about race-based terrorism in Union County, South Carolina during Reconstruction, and the long lasting legacy of this tumultuous period, as well as its interpretation today.
- Duration:
- 23 minutes, 31 seconds
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Park Rangers from Reconstruction Era National Historical Park and Camp Nelson National Monument share their parks' stories about the process of emancipation and recruitment of United States Colored Troops.
- Duration:
- 12 minutes, 23 seconds
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