Then from there, every one after will feature an expert or scholar to discuss various aspects of our important founding principles and how they have impacted our nation. You can register for the first one here:

Hello friends. Just a reminder that our new webinar series celebrating America250 launches this week! Our first one is this Thursday the 14th at 7pm EST and will provide an overview of the new curriculum.

Check out the new material from C_SPAN and LFI at the provided link. Be sure to join us for the webinar series! The first webinar, which introduces the lessons and the series is on August 14th @ 7pm EST. You can see the entire calendar at the link. #sschat

This is a series of 9 lessons, for grades 6-16, that examine the Declaration of Independence and its principles over time. We are launching the new material with an ongoing monthly webinar series featuring experts and scholars in the field, from August 2025 through May 2026.

In collaboration with C-SPAN Classroom, the Lou Frey Institute is excited to launch our new free America250 curriculum, featuring some fantastic resources from C-SPAN and the National Archives.

It includes the opportunity to sign up for a series of webinars we will be doing throughout the year. We hope you find these resources useful. #sschat.

Our new webpage has launched with completely brand new resources for America250, developed in collaboration with CSPAN and emphasizing primary sources from CSPAN and NARA. They are intended to be used nationally, and can be easily aligned with standards from multiple states.

Gradually, one by one, stealthily at first, the older slaves began to wander from the slave quarters back to the “big house” to have a whispered conversation with their former owners as to the future.". —Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901) #sschat

to their children, which they found it hard to think of breaking off. With these they had spent in some cases nearly a half-century, and it was no light thing to think of parting.

place and among strange people, even if they had been sure where to find a new place of abode. To this class the problem seemed especially hard. Besides, deep down in their hearts there was a strange and peculiar attachment to “old Marster” and “old Missus,” and.

To some it seemed that, now that they were in actual possession of it, freedom was a more serious thing than they had expected to find it. Some of the slaves were seventy or eighty years old; their best days were gone. They had no strength with which to earn a living in a strange.

the questions of a home, a living, the rearing of children, education, citizenship, and the establishment and support of churches. Was it any wonder that within a few hours the wild rejoicing ceased and a feeling of deep gloom seemed to pervade the slave quarters?.

them. It was very much like suddenly turning a youth of ten or twelve years out into the world to provide for himself. In a few hours the great questions with which the Anglo-Saxon race had been grappling for centuries had been thrown upon these people to be solved. These were.

brief period, for I noticed that by the time they returned to their cabins there was a change in their feelings. The great responsibility of being free, of having charge of themselves, of having to think and plan for themselves and their children, seemed to take possession of.

. For some minutes there was great rejoicing, and thanksgiving, and wild scenes of ecstasy. But there was no feeling of bitterness. In fact, there was pity among the slaves for our former owners. The wild rejoicing on the part of the emancipated coloured people lasted but for a.

where we pleased. My mother,who was standing by my side, leaned over and kissed her children, while tears of joy ran down her cheeks. She explained to us what it all meant, that this was the day for which she had been so long praying, but fearing that she would never live to see.

the scene was that some man who seemed to be a stranger (a United States officer, I presume) made a little speech and then read a rather long paper—the Emancipation Proclamation, I think. After the reading we were told that we were all free, and could go when and.

impression they made upon me, they did not at the moment seem to be sad because of the loss of property, but rather because of parting with those whom they had reared and who were in many ways very close to them. The most distinct thing that I now recall in connection with.

house. All of our master’s family were either standing or seated on the veranda of the house, where they could see what was to take place and hear what was said. There was a feeling of deep interest, or perhaps sadness, on their faces, but not bitterness. As I now recall the.

There was little, if any, sleep that night. All was excitement and expectancy. Early the next morning word was sent to all the slaves, old and young, to gather at the house. In company with my mother, brother, and sister, and a large number of other slaves, I went to the master’s.