Americans have long admired the resistance, tenacity and spirit of those brave souls who were travelers and conductors on the Underground Railroad. On this week’s PreserveCast, we’re heading back to those days to dredge up another chapter – and one far less proud – that of the reverse Underground Railroad which brought captured formerly free blacks back to slavery. It’s a difficult history – but one we must confront and we’ll explore it with Dr. Richard Bell, a distinguished scholar who recently authored a book on this overlooked story from American history.
Dr. Richard Bell is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and is author of the new book Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home. He has won more than a dozen teaching awards, including the University System of Maryland Board of Regents Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest honor for teaching faculty in the Maryland state system. He has held major research fellowships at Yale, Cambridge, and the Library of Congress and is the recipient of the National Endowment of the Humanities Public Scholar award. He serves as a Trustee of the Maryland Historical Society, as an elected member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, and as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
PreserveCast Ep119: [Healthy, Hip & Historic] "Reset to Default: Making Preservation the New Normal" by Jim Lindberg, National Trust for Historic Preservation
PreserveCast Ep118 [Healthy, Hip & Historic] "Preserving History, Promoting Health" by Dr. Debarati Majumdar "Mimi" Narayan
PreserveCast Ep. 117 [Healthy, Hip & Historic] People, Old Places & Health with Dr. Jeremy C. Wells of the University of Maryland
PreserveCast Ep116: [Healthy, Hip & Historic] What the Future Holds for Historic Preservation and Community Revitalization with Storm Cunningham
PreserveCast Ep115: Pushing the Outer Limits of Preservation with Michelle Hanlon of For All Moonkind
PreserveCast Ep114: Making & Marketing New Reasons to Travel Along the C&O Canal with Heidi Glatfelter Schlag
PreserveCast Ep113: Roadtripping through America's Automotive History with Diane Parker
PreserveCast Ep112: Horses, Houses, and History in Saratoga Springs with Samantha Bosshart
PreserveCast Ep111: Introducing Youth to Difficult History at Gettysburg with Barbara Sanders
PreserveCast Ep110: [Happy Halloween] Exploring America's Haunted History with Colin Dickey
PreserveCast Ep109: [Antietam Anniversary] What We Think We Know About History with Dennis Frye
PreserveCast Ep108: The Science of Data-Driven Community Revitalization with Heather Arnold of Streetsense
PreserveCast Ep. 107: Training a New Generation in the Traditional Trades with Moss Rudley of the National Historic Preservation Training Center
PreserveCast Ep. 106: David J. Brown Reflects on 20 Years at the National Trust for Historic Preservation
PreserveCast Ep. 105: The Catoctin Furnace Historic Building Trades Program with Elizabeth Comer
PreserveCast Ep: 104: Sellabrating State & Local Pride with Ali von Paris of Route One Apparel
PreserveCast Ep.103: The Glessner House on Display with Director and Curator, Bill Tyre
PreserveCast Ep. 102: Landmarks Illinois' Statewide Approach to Preservation & Development with Bonnie McDonald
PreserveCast Ep. 101: A Retrospective with Your Host, Nick Redding
PreserveCast Ep. 100: Preservation Incentives with Bill MacRostie of MacRostie Historic Advisors
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