The film explores the development of pioneer communities, focusing on their educational and recreational aspects. It highlights the construction of community buildings like churches and schools, often ...

Historians describe the creation of schools and focus on education — for both blacks and whites — in the South during Reconstruction. Eric Foner: Freedom had many meanings to people coming ...

Mary Ann Shadd had been teaching for over 10 years in various towns… including Norristown, Pennsylvania.”  At the time, it ...