Ukraine is a country. Here is a presentation by a Ukrainian-American on the history of the country for the Greater Danbury Intercultural Association in the late 1970s-early 1980s.
Month: February 2025
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library
Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a trailblazing female Black special collections librarian whose power in the field, then male-dominated, was extraordinary, and in a world where the only way for that to be possible was by pretending to not be Black.
Diversity, little equity, but much-needed inclusion in the War for Independence
When the 13 English colonies in America fought and won their independence and formed the United States, Connecticut had at least 820 Black soldiers in its ranks – roughly 20% of the Black population of Connecticut (~4300).
Enslavement of Black persons was legal in Connecticut, yet the same percentage of Black persons filled the State’s ranks in the Revolution as White persons.
The National Battlefield trust wrote in 2021:
“The main military force, which coalesced under General George Washington as the Continental Army, was not an integrated army until 1776. In November of 1775, Washington barred the enlistment of free Blacks and slaves. Within two months, however, Washington reversed this decision, and despite many attempts to block Blacks from serving their country, hundreds of Blacks enlisted nonetheless. Many Blacks who fought and were enslaved fought for their freedom and independence as a person of color. After the war, many Blacks gave their pensions and enlistment bounties to their former masters as a payment for their freedom. Cuffee Wells is just one example. Wells was a surgeon in the Continental Army and after his service in the Revolution, he paid his enlistment bounty to his former master and lived the rest of his life as a free man in Lebanon, Connecticut.”
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/george-washingtons-integrated-army
U.S. Government Data
Many of the Federal resources that were commonly available are no longer viewable online, and permanent URLs in library records may not resolve.
The Internet Archive has copies of many Government documents, sites, and data sets, but they do not have all the public data that had been previously freely available. Visit: https://web.archive.org/ (Internet Archive) if you are looking for a particular resource. The whitehouse.gov site as it appeared during the previous administration has been archived. You can find it here: https://bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/