Wed Feb 2, 2022
12:00 - 12:00 pm
Friends of History Lecture Series (Online)
Sam Adams: An African American Civil War Veteran and his New Mexican Life
Please join Hannah Abelbeck, Photo Archivist, with the New Mexico History Museum, for an online talk featuring Sam Adams, an African American Civil War veteran who later settled in New Mexico, as part of our Friends of History lecture series. The presentation will put Adams in context with his contemporaries and explores the difficulty of looking for information about minor and overlooked historical figures whose stories usually aren’t center stage. Hannah Abelbeck is the Photo Archivist in the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives department at the New Mexico ...
