The first friday of february to kickoff the program you all have programs in our seats and well be following that program with one exception at the outset here and well move through that as printed. On behalf of the board of board of directors of Historical Society and members again welcome to this celebration of black History Month. As you know any of you know black History Month was started by carter he Organization Association for the study of africanamerican life and history. It begun in 1926 and while a lot of us intend to think of black History Month begun there if carter woods startup the process of the black History Month was the bringing together of a number of activities that had been going on for years prior to 1926. So the celebration of black History Month week began in 26 and evolved to black History Month that. One of the interesting points about the gunning of black history slash month that carter woods had in mind not just the celebration on a particular day and partic
The first friday of february to kickoff the program you all have programs in our seats and well be following that program with one exception at the outset here and well move through that as printed. On behalf of the board of board of directors of Historical Society and members again welcome to this celebration of black History Month. As you know any of you know black History Month was started by carter he Organization Association for the study of africanamerican life and history. It begun in 1926 and while a lot of us intend to think of black History Month begun there if carter woods startup the process of the black History Month was the bringing together of a number of activities that had been going on for years prior to 1926. So the celebration of black History Month week began in 26 and evolved to black History Month that. One of the interesting points about the gunning of black history slash month that carter woods had in mind not just the celebration on a particular day and partic
The first friday of february to kickoff the program you all have programs in our seats and well be following that program with one exception at the outset here and well move through that as printed. On behalf of the board of board of directors of Historical Society and members again welcome to this celebration of black History Month. As you know any of you know black History Month was started by carter he Organization Association for the study of africanamerican life and history. It begun in 1926 and while a lot of us intend to think of black History Month begun there if carter woods startup the process of the black History Month was the bringing together of a number of activities that had been going on for years prior to 1926. So the celebration of black History Month week began in 26 and evolved to black History Month that. One of the interesting points about the gunning of black history slash month that carter woods had in mind not just the celebration on a particular day and partic
The first friday of february to kickoff the program you all have programs in our seats and well be following that program with one exception at the outset here and well move through that as printed. On behalf of the board of board of directors of Historical Society and members again welcome to this celebration of black History Month. As you know any of you know black History Month was started by carter he Organization Association for the study of africanamerican life and history. It begun in 1926 and while a lot of us intend to think of black History Month begun there if carter woods startup the process of the black History Month was the bringing together of a number of activities that had been going on for years prior to 1926. So the celebration of black History Month week began in 26 and evolved to black History Month that. One of the interesting points about the gunning of black history slash month that carter woods had in mind not just the celebration on a particular day and partic
Thank you very much. I love the enthusiasm of the postal lunch crowd. Its very exciting. Well, i am and honored and humbled to be here. To have invited to been invited to speak amongst this really incredible assembly of speakers and all of you attending and to share some the history and highlights of the society of the cincinnati collections. I have to say that throughout the past two days, ive each night back to my hotel room and because in a conversation with someone or listening to someones presentation, someone said something very smart, very insightful. And i went back and thought, i need to sort of see this differently. Im thinking about this, about our collections differently and its relationship to these other topics. So you all been sort of inspiration already. So thank you for that. So society of cincinnatis collections documenting revolutionary war and its legacy are of the broad scope of my talk today. We did begin acquiring in 1783, which is the the society was founded. So