On Sunday, June 18th, Heather Cox Richardson wrote up a history of the Juneteenth celebration in her daily column, “Notes From an American”. It explains why this event is important in American history and how it contributes to an understanding of the state of race relations in our country today.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-18-2023?r=18wtq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian, author and educator. She is a professor of history at Boston College, where she teaches courses on the American Civil War, the Reconstruction Era, the American West, and the Plains Indians.