PD in Your PJs: The American West in Photographs with Dr. Jacob Friefeld

For the PD in Your PJs series, we invite you to come as you are, drink what you want, engage with the experts, and leave with 1.0 CPDU credit.

After the Civil War, tens of thousands of Black Americans moved from the South to the West to claim land through the Homestead Act of 1862. Join Director of the University of Illinois Springfield Center for Lincoln Studies Jacob Friefeld as he discusses the History of homesteading and Black homesteaders through photographs, how these photographs came to be, and where teachers can go to utilize photographs like these in their classrooms.

This is a free program, but advance registration is required.