Local Legacies: A West Chester Girl’s Journey

Chester County History Center 225 North High Street, West Chester, PA, United States

Come to the Chester County History Center for this in-person event welcoming Dr. Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi as she shares her life's journey from West Chester to international acclaim as a cultural anthropologist, conducting fieldwork in the remotest villages in the world.

Virtual Lecture: Stealing Freedom Along the Mason Dixon Line

Virtual Event

The History Center welcomes public historian Milt Diggins to share his research in this virtual lecture about slave-catching and the kidnapping of free Blacks along the Mason-Dixon line in the era of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.