EDYTHE ANN QUINN, PH.D., Professor of History, Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y

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EDYTHE ANN QUINN, PH.D., Professor of History, Hartwick College, Oneonta, N.Y. [email protected]

EDUCATION: • Ph.D. December 1994, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dissertation: "Delivering Health Care to Rural America: Community Health Center Program in Southwest Virginia, 1975-1994." • M.A. June 1988, Herbert H. Lehman College, City University of New York, The Bronx, NY. Thesis: "The Hills in the Mid- Nineteenth Century: The History of a Rural African-American Community in Westchester County, NY." • B.S., June 1985, University of the State of New York, Regents College Degree.

ACADEMIC TEACHING EXPERIENCE: • Feb. 1995-current: History Department, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. o Effective Fall 2010: Professor of History o Effective Fall 2001: Tenured, Associate Professor of History o Spring 2004 – spring 2010, History Department Chair.

ADDITIONAL TEACHING EXPERIENCES • June 2011: Pine Lake Summer Institute: Women in American Health Care. • July 2006: Bassett Hospital B.S. Nursing Program with Hartwick College, Cooperstown, NY, “History of Women in American Health Care.” • August 1988 - May 1993: Graduate Teaching Associate/Assistant, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. • Fall 1991 & 1993: Adjunct, Carson-Newman College, Extension Program at Mountain Women's Exchange, Jellico, Tenn.

HISTORY HONOR SOCIETY, FACULTY ADVISOR • Spring 2015 - present, Nu Theta Chapter, Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society. o Co-hosted Central New York Regional Conference, April 29, 2017, at SUNY Oneonta. o Co-hosted with SUNY-Oneonta: Phi Alpha Theta, Central New York Conference, April 19, 2017.

ACADEMIC ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND AWARDS: • 2017 recipient: Teacher-Scholar Award: Teacher-Scholar Award recognizing the tradition of the teacher-scholar “who enhances teaching through scholarship, research, or creative work, integrating the perspective of seeker and teacher, and demonstrates to students and colleagues the value and excitement of scholarly inquiry.” • 2015 recipient: Margaret Brigham Bunn Award presented annually to a member of the faculty who judged by students "best exemplifies the centrality of the interaction between teacher and student." May 6, 2015, Honors Convocation. • 2009 Faculty Award, Women’s History Month, sponsored by Pluralism Program.

• Master’s Thesis Dedication: Meredith Pascale, ’07, “Determining a Legacy: John F. Kennedy’s Civil Rights Record,” Master of Art in History, SUNY-Buffalo, 2009.

CERTIFICATIONS. • CITI certification, 3/25/2014: Completed Hartwick’s online Human Research Subjects Protection Training to work with students engaged in oral histories. • Safe Space Training Workshop in support of LGBTQ students, Hartwick College, March 20, 2014.

HARTWICK COLLEGE COURSES: Race & Ethnicity in American History; Civil Rights Movement; Environmental Relations in American History; Environmental Injustice; The Sixties; Vietnam War; WWII Home Front; Women in American Health Care; SEMINARS: John F. Kennedy: The Myth and The Man; US Foreign Relations; Gender in American Foreign Relations; View from 9/11; African-Americans in the North; Dams & The Damned; Communities in Resistance (first year seminar); Breastworks: Interdisciplinary Analysis of Breast Cancer in Today’s Society; Changes in The Land: Local Environmental Land Use.

Faculty-Mentored & Experiential Learning Projects, Hartwick College: • Freedman Prize: Poems to Rat by Edythe Ann Quinn: a staged reading, directed by Taylor Morin, Theatre Arts. Freedman Prize, Student Showcase performance, May 5, 2017, with four three students and author. • First Year Seminar Showcase Advising, FYS: Communities in Resistance, Dec. 5, 2015. • On-going Experiential Learning projects: Connecting Students to Their Families’ and Home Communities’ Histories, e.g., Family & Community Histories in WWII Home Front; Family & Community Histories in The Sixties. • Collaborated with student, Rebecka Flynn for her article, “Unequal Education: How the Brown v. Board of Education Decision can be Applied to Rural West Virginia,” in The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Vol. 6, Issue 3. • Sept. 28, 2006: “New Burlington, Ohio: The Life & Death of an American Village, THE PLAY,” produced for CIS: Dams & The Damned, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m., Laura’s Coffee House, Hartwick College; student director, musical coordinator, and student actors. • “Healing a Mastectomy Scar; Creating a Life Line,” BREASTWORKS Seminar Students’ Exhibit, Stevens-German Library, Hartwick College, October 2004, 2002, 1999. Please visit: http://users.hartwick.edu/quinne/photogallery for 1999 exhibit. Exhibit also featured at SUNY/Delhi Library, March 2000. • HONORING ANCESTORS: Shrines Created by Hartwick College Students Working with African-American Artist Jean Lacy, Civil Rights Movement Seminar. Yager Museum, Hartwick College, April 2003 through October 2003. Please visit: http://users.hartwick.edu/quinne/photogallery

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS • 2017 Hartwick College Research Grant to Illinois State Archives to research Illinois Soldiers’ Orphans Home at Normal, IL. 2

• Hartwick College Dewar (Research) Professorship for Freedom Journey manuscript (2010-13 January Terms) • Gilder Lehrman Institute Fellowship, one of only 11 awarded to senior scholars, summer 2007, for African-American research in New-York Historical Society, NYC. • CIC/Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Seminar, Harvard University, June 21-23, 2005. • New York State Archives and Archives Partnership Trust, Larry J. Hackman Research Residency Program for 2003, for African-American research. • Hartwick College: 2005-2006, 2001-2002 & 2000-01 Trustee Grants: research on “The Hills” at the Westchester County Archives and Society of Friends Library, Swarthmore College. • 1997-98 academic year: Winifred D. Wandersee Scholar-in-Residence for research, "From Coalfields to Dairyfields: The Influence of Eastern European-Immigrant Dairy Farmers on the 1930s Milk Strikes in Central New York." • New York African-American Institute, 1989. • Lehman College, CUNY, The Bronx, NY: Hochberg Family Award and Howard Weisz Prize in History, June 1988 for Master’s Thesis on The Hills.

I IN-PROGRESS BOOK MANUSCRIPTS: • "LIvES in Three Quarter Time: Performing Sexual Conformity through Cover Marriage and Family, New York City, 1920s-1950s." Estimated complete of manuscript, Fall 2018. • “The Hills Is Home”: History of a Rural, African-American Community in Westchester County, NY, 1840s-1890s. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, anticipated submission of manuscript to SUNY Press, Fall 2020.

PUBLICATIONS: • Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, New York. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, May 2015. http://www.sunypress.edu/p- 6007-freedom-journey.aspx • “Murder in The Hills,” New York Archives, Winter 2007. • "The Kinship System in The Hills," in Mighty Change, Tall Within: Black Identity in the Hudson Valley, Myra B. Young Armstead, ed. Albany: SUNY-Press, 2003. • "A Rural Afro-American Community in Westchester County in the Mid-Nineteenth Century," Afro-Americans in New York, Life and History 14 (1990): 35-50. • The Hills in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The History of a Rural Afro-American Community in Westchester County, New York. Vahalla, NY: Westchester County Historical Society, 1988. • "Black Civil War Soldiers from The Hills," Westchester Historian 63 (1987): 9-16. Interview in four parts: Week-long discussion with Quinn re Freedom Journey and current Civil Rights issues on SUNY Press - facebook.com http://www.facebook.com/pages/SUNY- Press/112308762113504 Nov. 9, 10, 12, 13, 2015

REVIEWS for FREEDOM JOURNEY: • Civil War News, THE MONTHLY CURRENT EVENTS NEWSPAPER, May 2015, review by Joseph Truglio, http://www.civilwarnews.com/reviews/2015br/may/westchester-quinn- brw051502.html • Journal of Military History, Vol. 70, No. 3, July 20, 2015, pp. 836-37, review by Allen Ballard, Allen (SUNY-Albany)

BOOK REVIEWS: • Luke, Bob and John David Smith. Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014) in Ohio Valley History, Fall 2016, Vol. 16, No. 3. pp. 93-94. • Seraile, William. Angels of Mercy: White Women and the History of New York’s Colored Orphan Asylum (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011) in New York History, fall 2012, issued summer 2013, 348-354. • Seraile, William. New York's Black Regiments During the Civil War (New York: Routledge, 2001) in New York History 83:4 (Fall, 2012): 434-36. • Litoff, Judy Barrett and Smith, David C., eds. American Women in a World at War, in Phoebe, Journal of feminist scholarship, theory and aesthetics. 13:2 (Fall, 2001): 122-23 (Women's & Gender Studies Dept. State University of New York at Oneonta). • Fitzpatrick, Ellen. Endless Crusade: Women Social Scientists and Progressive Reform, in Phoebe, Journal of feminist scholarship…. SUNY/Oneonta, 1996.

Peer Reviews for History Journals • “Warrenton, Georgia to Catskill, New York: A Story of the Great Migration,” for The Hudson River Valley Review, Spring 2014.

RESEARCH for HISTORICAL REGISTRY STATUS: National & State Historical Registry Status for The Hills Cemetery, based on Quinn’s research; August and April 1999, respectively.

CONSULTANT: • Content consultant for African Americans in the Civil War, Red Line Editorial, Inc. June 2016. • Harrison Public Library Digital collection: “Harrison Remembers: The Hills” Harrison [NY] Public Library, Spring 2015. http://www.harrisonpl.org/harrison-remembers From the website: “First and foremost we would like to thank Dr. Edythe A. Quinn, Professor of History at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y. This project is based on her research and her book Freedom Journey. Without these, this endeavor would not have been possible. We relied on her advice and guidance for historical accuracy, which she provided freely. She readily offered additional documents without hesitation. She took time from her busy teaching schedule to steer us in the right direction every step of the way.” • Historical Context and Documents on “The Hills,” for New York Power Authority exhibit celebrating Black History Month, February 2013, NYPA Headquarters’ Lobby, White Plains, NY. • Non-departmental, Dissertation Reader/historian, 2007-2008. for Julie Levin Caro, “Allan Rohan Crite: Portraying Boston’s Middle-class, African-American Community in Art,” Dissertation in Art History, University of Texas-Austin, • Mid-Hudson Anti-slavery Research Project, Dutchess County, New York, 2007-current. The Preface to Slavery, Antislavery and the Underground Railroad: A Dutchess County Guide (Poughkeepsie, NY: 2010) acknowledged Quinn’s contribution: “The Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project would like to offer heartfelt thanks to … Professor Edythe Quinn of Hartwick College, for sharing her research on African American life in the Hudson Valley….” • USCT exhibit at Pratt Museum, Prattsville, NY, August 29, 2009. • Philipse Manor/Neighborhood Preservation Association, Yonkers, New York, September 2008. Acknowledged for assisting researcher in preparing article, “Liberation at the Lower Mills: Yonkers’ Role in the History of Freedom in America,” Yonkers Historian, Winter 2008. COMMUNITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE: • Center for Continuing Adult Learning, Oneonta, NY, Winter Sessions, facilitator, January 2016: Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community; 2009: Winter & The Environment in History & Folklore. 2008: 1930s Milk Strikes in Central New York; 2007: African-American Quilts and Their Makers; 2005: Rosie, the Riveter, and Her Neighbors: World War II on the Home Front; 2004: Winter & The Environment in History & Folklore. • 2001-2011: “Healing a Mastectomy Scar; Creating a Life Line,” Facilitator in Program: “Life After Breast Cancer: A Journey Toward Wellness, Breast Care Center,” SUNY Upstate Medical University, Health Care Center, Syracuse, NY. • Nov. 09, 2009: Healing and Art Therapy Workshop as part of series, “Stress Management for Breast Cancer Patients,” Fox Hospital, Oneonta, NY. • 2003, 2004, Delaware County Cancer Coalition, Stamford, NY: Oct. 30, 2004 and Nov. 1, 2003, workshops, “Healing a Scar; Creating a Lifeline.” 5

PRESENTATIONS by topic.

Re: African American History: especially FREEDOM JOURNEY: Black Civil War Soldiers and the Hills Community, Westchester County, New York; organized by venue: • SUNY Adirondack Continuing Education, Lecture and Lunch Series, Queensbury [NY] Campus. April 1, 2017, Introducing FREEDOM JOURNEY: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, NY. • Civil War Round Table presentations: Capital District CWRT, Albany area, Feb. 12, 2016; Rockland County CWRT, Pearl River, NY, Oct. 8, 2014; CWRT & White Plains Historical Society, White Plains, NY, February 5, 2014; Milford, NY, Feb. 27, 2006. • Historical Society Presentations: Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project at FDR Library, Hyde Park, Nov. 15, 2015 http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/pressmedia/pdfs/twentyfifteenthirty.pdf ; Yorktown Historical Society, Sept. 17, 2015; and Chemung County Historical Society, Elmira, NY, “Beyond Fort Wagner: Elmira Men Serving in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,” May 12, 2011. • Libraries, Public: Huntington Memorial Library, Oneonta, NY, Feb. 25, 2016; Adriance Memorial Library, Changing America series, Poughkeepsie, NY, Dec. 16, 2015; White Plains Library, NY, Sept. 30, 2015, http://whiteplainslibrary.org/2015/09/meet-the-author-edythe- ann-quinn-and-freedom-journey/ ; Harrison Library, NY, Sept. 19, 2015.

• Other Presentations & Conferences: • “When the Shooting Stopped: Black Civil War Veterans Return Home,” Ulysses S. Grant Cottage, State Historic Site, Mt. McGregor, NY, Aug. 24, 2016. • Freedom Journey through the Letters of Sergeant Simeon Anderson Tierce. Annual History Day, Bright Hill Literary Center, Treadwell, NY, July 23, Saturday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. • “The Tale of Two Counties”: Westchester and Dutchess Counties, New York, in Pursuit of Freedom,” panel, 14th Annual Underground Railroad Public History Conference, Russell Sage College, Troy, NY, April 16, 2016. • Hudson Valley History Reading Festival, FDR Presidential Library, Henry A. Wallace Center, Hyde Park, NY April 23, 2016. • Windham (NY) Civil War Weekend Book Panel, Aug. 1, 2015; AND Peterboro [NY] Civil War Weekend, June 13 & 14, 2015. • History Hike/Presentation: “The Hills, African-American Community, 1790-1925,” Westchester County Parks Commission, Silver Lake Preserve, June 2, 2013; Publicized in http://www.lohud.com/article/20130602/NEWS02/306020045/Silver-Lake-Preserve-offers-glimpse- slaves-freedom-journey?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CNews%7Cs&nclick_check=1 • Hartwick College Faculty Lecture Series: "After the Shooting Stopped: Black Civil War Veterans and Their Northern Communities," March 10, 2016; “Why They Fought”: Black Civil War Soldiers from The Hills,” March 16, 2012; “Beyond Fort Wagner: Elmira Men Serving in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry,” Oct. 20, 2011; “Letters Home: Civil War Letters of USCT Sergeant Simeon Anderson Tierce,” Sept. 24,

2008; “Murder Most Informative: Trial Testimony and Newspaper Coverage of a Murder in an African-American Community in the 1890s,” Feb. 2005. • USCT Institute & ASFD Conference Presentations, Hartwick College, 2014, 2013, 2012.

OTHER RELATED PRESENTATIONS: • “African Americans & the Environment in Myra Young Armstead’s Scholarship” for Panel: Myra Young Armstead’s Scholarship; Conference on New York State History, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY, June 13, 2014. • “Researching Local Black History,” Annual Conference, Lower Hudson Council for Social Studies, White Plains, NY, Dec. 07, 2012. • “Murder Most Informative: Analyzing Trial Testimony and Newspaper Coverage of a Murder in an African-American Community in the 1890s,” Researching New York Conference, SUNY-Albany, Nov. 19, 2004. • New York State Archives, Albany, Residency Presentation Sept. 4, 2003: “Researching African-American Community History in the New York State Archives.” • Conference: Crabgrass 2000: Exploring Westchester’s Archives and History, SUNY- Purchase, April 9, 1999: "Identifying Local (African-American) History." • Conference on New York State History, June 7, 1997: "The Civil War: A Pivotal Moment in the History of an African-American Community in Westchester County." • Conference: "A Heritage Uncovered," Chemung County Historical Society & Elmira College, NY, April 21, 1989: "A Rural Afro-American Community in Westchester County in the Mid-Nineteenth Century." • Keynote Address, African-American Festival, Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site, Yonkers, NY, Sept. 19, 1987: "African Roots in New York Soil: The Next Generation."

Re: 1930s Milk Strikes in Central New York, including role of Eastern-European Immigrant Dairy Farmers: • Historical Societies: Meredith (NY) Historical Society, Oct. 2, 2008; Richfield Springs (NY) Historical Society, Jan. 5, 2004; Greater Oneonta Area Historical Society, January 19, 2002; Broome County Historical Society, Binghamton, NY, April 18, 2001; Fly Creek (NY) Historical Society, Sept. 23, 1998: "Influence of Slovenian Immigrant Dairy Farmers of Fly Creek, NY, on the 1930s Milk Strikes in Central New York;" Butternut Valley (NY) Grange, Gilbertsville, NY, September 14, 1998. • Hartwick College lectures: Winifred D. Wandersee Commemoration, April 4, 2009; Faculty Lecture Series, March 13, 1998. . • Pennsylvania History Conference, Scranton, PA., Oct. 21, 2000: "From Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Coal Fields to Central New York State’s Dairy Lands: The Influence of Eastern European Immigrants on the Milk Strikes of the 1930s." • Conference on New York State History, June 7, 1996; “Milk Strikes in Central New York.”

Re: Health Care Topics, including Breast Cancer presentations and workshops: • Oct. 20, 2016: “Healing Tools For Life” (“Thanking, Forgiving & Releasing” and “Healing a Scar; Creating a Life Line”), Mind, Body, Spirit Collective, Oneonta, NY. • “Healing Tools For Life” (“Thanking, Forgiving & Releasing” and “Healing a Scar; Creating a Life Line”), A Tools for Life [theme year] Event, Hartwick College, Bresee Hall, Eaton Lounge, November 14, 2014 • “More than a Bath; More than a Class,” keynote address for Bassett Nurses B.S. Commencement, Bassett Hospital-Hartwick College program; Bassett Hospital, Cooperstown, NY, Dec. 8, 2006. • Understanding Cancer: Breast Cancer Experience, Hartwick College, April 16, 2004. • State University of New York: Upstate Hospital, Surgical Grand Rounds, Syracuse, May 5, 1999: "Breastworks: Breast Cancer Therapies & Issues in Today’s Society." • "Gender Hierarchy in a Community Hospital." Hartwick College, April 5, 1996: • Appalachian Studies Conference, March 18, 1995 (conceived, organized, and convened interdisciplinary round table): "Going Up In Smoke: Health & The Tobacco Economy & Culture in Appalachian Communities." • Tennessee Conference of Historians, Oct. 5, 1994: "Health Care as Economic Development: Boosterism, Philanthropy & Reform...." • Appalachian Studies Conference, March 20, 1993: "The Federal Government's Role in Clinch River Health Services, Inc." • Conference: "The Politics of Caring II," Emory University, November 6, 1993: "Changing Roles of Women in Rural Health Care."

Re: Deconstructing the Picturesque in Afro-Caribbean Market Women (Tourist) Dolls • “African Contributions to Caribbean and American Material Culture: Continuity of African Culture in the Dress of Caribbean Market Women and in the Gees Bend (Alabama) Quilts,” Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oct. 6, 2006. • “Deconstructing the Picturesque in Afro-Caribbean Market Women (Souvenir) Dolls,” Symposium, College of the Bahamas, Nassau, June 2006. • “The Art and Theory of Collecting: Afro-Caribbean Market Women Dolls,” Museum Studies class, Hartwick College, September 16, 2005. • “Market Women, Chiquitas and Their Sisters – Deconstructing the Picturesque in Afro- Caribbean (Souvenir) Dolls,” IQSC Second Biennial Symposium University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Feb. 25, 2005.

Re: Other historical topics/presentations: • “March On Washington,” 50th Anniversary March and Commentary Representing Hartwick College (substituting for President Drugovich and quoted in Daily Star), Unitarian-Universalist Church, Oneonta, NY, August 27, 2014. • Panelist, “Discussion of Mohawk’s work….,” Honoring John Mohawk: an Evening with Jose Barreiro, Stevens-German Library, Hartwick College, March 8, 2012. • “Connecting the Student’s World and Hartwick Classroom through Family and Community Histories,” Hartwick College Teaching Table, Nov. 19, 2009. • “Arnold Hall History,” Homecoming Reunion, Hartwick College, 10/02/09. 8

• “John Mohawk’s Influence on My Teaching Environmental Relations,” John Mohawk Memorial Conference, SUNY-Buffalo, March 29, 2008. • Hartwick College Pluralism Program, Nov. 11, 2004: “Who Fought in Vietnam.” • American Society of Environmental History Conference, Providence, R.I., March 27, 2003: "Using Local, Primary Sources to Teach Environmental History."

CONFERENCE PROGRAM PLANNING & PUBLISHING COMMITTEES: Conference on New York State History, 1995- 2011.

AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS: • Charter Member, United States Colored Troops Institute AND American Society of Freedmen’s Descendants (Oct. 1998, Hartwick College) • Honorary Member, Harriet Tubman Mentoring Project, Hartwick College, Spring 2008.

HONOR SOCIETIES: • Hartwick College Honor Society, 2004. • Phi Alpha Theta, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Chapter, Charter Member, 1992. • Phi Kappa Phi, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Chapter, enrolled Fall 1992.

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Publicity and Activities: Events, Reviews and Media Coverage, for Quinn, Edythe Ann. FREEDOM JOURNEY: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, NY. Albany: State University of New York Press, May 2015. http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6007-freedom-journey.aspx

FREEDOM JOURNEY Events: 2016 • August 24, Wednesday: 1:00 pm, Ulysses S. Grant Cottage, NY State Historic Site, Porch program event, 28 Mt McGregor Rd, Gansevoort, NY 12831, The Grant Cottage is located just north of Saratoga Springs, NY. http://www.grantcottage.org/About_the_Grant_Cottage.html • July 23, Saturday: 9:00 am – 12:00 pm. History Day, Bright Hill Literary Center, Treadwell, NY: Freedom Journey through the Letters of Sergeant Simeon Anderson Tierce. http://www.thedailystar.com/news/local_news/history-day-to-celebrate-local-authors- works/article_c6f800ec-103d-54c5-a8a8-663525192676.html • April 23, Saturday: 1:00 pm. Hudson Valley History Reading Festival, FDR Presidential Library, Henry A. Wallace Center, Hyde Park, NY. www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu • April. 16, Saturday: 2:15pm “The Tale of Two Counties: Antislavery in Westchester and Dutchess Counties, New York.” 15th annual Underground Railroad Public History Conference organized by Underground Railroad History Project and hosted by Russell Sage College in Troy, New York. Quinn will discuss FREEDOM JOURNEY for Westchester County and Dan Jones, founding member of the Mid- Hudson Antislavery History Project, with discuss Slavery, Antislavery and the Underground Railroad for Dutchess County. www.UndergroundRailroadHistory.org • March 10, Thursday: 12:30 – 1:45 pm, "After the Shooting Stopped: Black Civil War Veterans and Their Northern Communities," Faculty Lecture Series, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. • Feb. 25, Thursday: 6:30 pm. FREEDOM JOURNEY: “Introducing The Hills Community and Its Civil War Soldiers,” Huntington Memorial Library, 62 Chestnut Street, Oneonta, NY. • Feb. 12, Friday: 7:00 pm, FREEDOM JOURNEY: Northern Black, Civil War Soldiers, Capital District Civil War Round Table [Albany area], Watervliet Senior/Community Center, Watervliet, NY.

• Jan 5, 12, and 19, Tuesdays, 2 to 3:30 pm, “The Hills Community and The Civil War” Studies, Center for Continuing Adult Learning, Morris Hall, SUNY-Oneonta, Oneonta, NY.

FREEDOM JOURNEY Events: 2015 • Dec. 16, Wednesday, 7:00 – 9:00 pm: “Freedom Journey: Black Civil War Soldiers and The Hills Community,” The Auditorium, 105 Market Street, Poughkeepsie, NY, sponsored by the Poughkeepsie Public Library District. Presentation and book signing coordinated with the exhibit, “Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963,” Dec. 13, 2015 – Jan. 29, 2016, Mary Wojtecki Rotunda Gallery, Adriance Memorial Library, 93 Market Street, Poughkeepsie. • Dec. 12, Saturday, 3:30 pm, Presentation, Hudson Valley Winter Book Fair, First Presbyterian Church, Beacon, NY. • Nov. 15, Sunday, 2:00 pm, Presentation and book signing: Mid-Hudson Antislavery History Project. Wallace Center, FDR Library, Hyde Park, NY. http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/pressmedia/pdfs/twentyfifteenthirty.pdf • Oct. 10, Saturday, 11 am – 12 noon, Hartwick's True Blue Weekend, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY. Book signing & conversation. • Sept. 30, Wednesday 7:00 pm: “Meet the Author,” White Plains Public Library, Auditorium, 2nd floor, 100 Martine Avenue, White Plains, NY. http://whiteplainslibrary.org/2015/09/meet-the-author-edythe- ann-quinn-and-freedom-journey/ • Sept. 19, Saturday, 2:00 - 4:00 pm, "Harrison Remembers the Freedom Journey of The Hills Civil War Soldiers and Community," Harrison Public Library, Auditorium, 2 Bruce Ave. Harrison, N.Y. 10528, www.harrisonpl.org Coordinated with a musical presentation of Methodist hymns common to African American congregations. • Sept. 17, Thursday, 7:30 pm, Yorktown Historical Society Meeting, Yorktown Hart Library, 1130 Main St., Shrub Oak, New York. • July 31-Aug. 2: Civil War Days, Windham, Delaware County, NY; Saturday, Aug. 1, Windham Booknotes Roundtable, 11:30 am – 1:00 pm, panel. Centre Church Civic Center, Main (NY23) & Church Streets, Windham, NY 12496. • July 10, 7:30 pm, Presentation and book signing: Institute of Spiritual Development, Sparta, NJ July Calendar, http://www.isdsparta.org/Calendar-Events.html • June 19, Conference on New York State History, 3-3:30 pm: Book signing, Niagara University. http://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/files/cnysh/2015_CNYSH_Program_v1.pdf • June 13 & 14, 23rd Annual Peterboro Civil War Weekend, Peterboro, NY (Abolition Hall of Fame, Gerrit Smith Historic Site and Smithfield Community Center). “Freedom Journey: Black Soldiers and The Hills Community, Westchester County, New York. Author: Edythe Ann Quinn PhD, Professor of History at Hartwick College, Oneonta NY.” Smithfield Community Center, 5255 Pleasant Valley Road, Peterboro NY 13134. civilwarweekend.sca-peterboro.org • May 12, TV Interview with Randolph Johnson, for "Focus on Oneonta,” WISF Television 15 Oneonta and Warner Cable 27), aired week of May 18. • May 9, 1:30 - 3:30 pm, Green Toad Bookstore, Oneonta, Reading & Book Signing.

REVIEWS: • Civil War News, THE MONTHLY CURRENT EVENTS NEWSPAPER, May 2015, review by Joseph Truglio, http://www.civilwarnews.com/reviews/2015br/may/westchester-quinn-brw051502.html • Journal of Military History, Vol. 70, No. 3, July 20, 2015, pp. 836-37, review by Allen Ballard, Allen (SUNY-Albany)

MEDIA COVERAGE:

• Interview in four parts: Week-long discussion with Quinn re Freedom Journey and current Civil Rights issues on SUNY Press - facebook.com • http://www.facebook.com/pages/SUNY-Press/112308762113504 Nov. 9, 10, 12, 13, 2015. • H-Net Book Channel: New Book. https://networks.h-net.org/node/1883/pages/90673/new-book-freedom-journey-black-civil- war-soldiers-and-hills-community • WESTCHESTER Magazine, Peter Madden, “History in the Hills,” October 2015, p. 102, http://www.westchestermagazine.com/Westchester-Magazine/October-2015/History-in-The-Hills • Journal News (lohud) Richard Liebson, “Book on Westchester’s ‘Hills’ community, Civil War,” June 27, 2015. http://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/2015/06/27/new-book-describes-civil-war-contributions- eras-largest-african-american-communituy-westchester/29404277/ • New York State History Blog (John Warren, editor) May 09, 2015: FREEDOM JOURNEY, Featured book, http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2015/05/09/freedom-journey-westchester-county-black-civil-war- soldiers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewYorkHistory+%2 8New+York+History%29 • Uncommonplace Book Weekly Digest, May 22, 2015 and .May 20, 2015: Wednesday Link Roundup #96, link to The New York State History Blog feature on FREEDOM JOURNEY: http://www.elizabethcovart.com/wednesday-link-roundup-96/ • Hartwick College Press Release, May 27, 2015, http://www.hartwick.edu/news/new-edie-quinn-book-5-27- 15 • AllOtsego.com, Friday, 29 May 2015: “Due To Demand, Hartwick Professor's 'Freedom Journey' Out 6 Weeks Early,” http://allotsego.com/hometown-oneonta/due-to-demand-hartwick-professors-freedom- journey-out-6-weeks-early/ • White Plains Daily Voice, June 5, 2015: “Book Focuses On Black Soldiers From White Plains In Civil War,” by Robert Mikulak. http://whiteplains.dailyvoice.com/lifestyle/book-focuses-black-soldiers- westchester-civil-war • Lehman Today, Spring 2015: “Freedom Journey…” p. 10. • The Daily Star, Oneonta, NY, “Community, People, Who’s News: August 12, 2015” “http://www.thedailystar.com/community/people/who-s-news-aug/article_8c8c7456-20ce-5cb9-9430- f59bd7fe5dc4.html