International UGRR Month Interactive Map
Curious to who declared September 2020 International Underground Railroad Month? Explore this map and find out! Events by Network to Freedom Members "Thirty Days of Stories on the Underground Railroad" is a series of podcasts series created in celebration of September as International Underground Railroad Month. The Oldham County History Center provided most of the stories and each day a selected person read a story that included a short introduction of the reader and their interest in history. The podcast is an opportunity for the History Center to help promote tourism and education about an important era of American history.
“In July we put out a call for readers and we have been overwhelmed by the positive response”, according to Dr. Nancy Theiss, Executive Director of the Oldham County History Center. “We have graduate students, school teachers, professors, authors, history center volunteers, directors of museums and actors who have volunteered as podcast readers and that represent not only Kentucky but include readers from Indiana, Texas, Ohio, Minnesota, Maryland, Georgia, England and Canada.” The Oldham Podcast Network is supported by the Oldham County Chamber of Commerce. To learn more about the Podcasts, please visit Oldham County History Center’s website. Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area created a host of virtual programming options so that visitors near and far can learn more about the Underground Railroad and Network to Freedom Sites in Kansas and Missouri. Each video connects visitors to experts on each Network to Freedom Site in Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area.
Recordings of the presentations can be found on Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area's YouTube Page.The virtual presentations included:
The Michigan Freedom Trail Commission and its partners, the Wayne County Community College District and Michigan History Center, held their third annual Underground Railroad Heritage Gathering as a series of virtual presentations on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in September 2020.
2020's events, which were hosted using the Zoom platform, included panel discussions, local research, tips for researching local Underground Railroad history and more. To watch recordings of the sessions, please visit the Michigan History Center’s Vimeo Page. The Carnegie Center for Art and History, home to the Network to Freedom Program "Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage: Men and Women of the Underground Railroad," and their partners released special programming opportunities in light of International Underground Railroad Month. For more information, please visit their website.
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Last updated: April 28, 2023