Media and Education Events

• Media Coverage.

  • The Williamson Herald, February 22, 2018. BGA Students Recognize Members of the 13th US Colored Infantry.

  • The Tennessean,  'Telling the whole story:' Franklin woman uncovers slaves turned soldiers." May 27, 2018

  • Southern Exposure magazine, August 9, 2019. 

  • War History Online. Tennessee Town Honors USCT Vets Long Forgotten. June 7, 2018.

  • The Tennessee Tribune. Slaves To Soldiers Honored. May 27, 2018.

  • Memorial Day 2022 in Franklin, Tennessee, The Tennessean, May 30, 2022.

  • Annual Memorial Day service set for Monday, Williamson Herald, May 25, 2022.

  • New brick pavers in downtown Franklin honor 19 more Black Civil War soldiers, The Tennessean, June 1, 2022

  • From slave to soldier: The story of Freeman Thomas and the Battle of Nashville, The Tennessean, Feb 28, 2023

  • Black Veterans From the Civil War to Be Honored, Tennessee Tribune, May 25, 2023

  • Longtime Civil War researcher and Franklin resident honored by national women’s lineage society,  Williamson Herald, Nov. 1, 2024

• Educational and Speaking Events

  • October 13, 2016. Presentation to the City of Franklin Battlefield Commission.  First public event regarding the Project.

  • November 16, 2016. Race & Reconciliation - A Conversation for Consideration.

  • February 12, 2017. Franklin Civil War Roundtable Williamson County's African American soldiers

  • February 2018. General John A. Logan Museum, Murphysboro, Illinois. The Bostick Family.

  • June 2018. McLemore House Museum. Pioneer Family. The Bostick Family - A Journey to Freedom. 

  • Slave Dwelling Project Conference: Slavery, Resistance and Community, October 2018. , “Bless Be the Ties that Bind: Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens”

  • Battle of Nashville Trust. Keynote speaker at Fort Negley commemoration, November 2018.

  • Save the Franklin Battlefield Annual Meeting, Keynote Speaker (presentation below). May 2019.

  • May 2019, Keynote Speaker at Fort Negley Memorial Day program.

  • Annual Nashville Conference on African American History and Culture "A Journey from Enslavement to Freedom" (video below), February 2020.

  • February 22, 2020. Daniel H. Brush Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Carbondale, Illinois. Black Civil War Navy Veterans - the Bosticks from Williamson County, Tennessee. 

  • Afro-American Heritage and Historical Society of Nashville. Using Military Records for African American Research. June 6, 2020.

  • Podcast: Research at the National Archives and Beyond, March 4, 2021. "USCT Pension Records and Genealogy Tell a Community's Story."

Video and Podcast Links