Episodes & Descriptions

Depiction of the New York Draft Riots, The Illustrated London News, 1863 In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln's government passed a new...

1868 map of the Town of Westchester shows the Bethel A.M.E. Church and Cemetery located on what is now Unionport Road in the Bronx By ...

Weeksville native, Dr. Susan Smith McKinney, the state’s first African-American female doctor, and a revered abolitionist The ...

The first church building of the United African Church and Cemetery, established by the United African Society of Newtown, which was...