The Stevens and Smith Historic Site Blog

Campaign Steering Committee Welcomes New Members, Tours Site

2008-05-08T18:32:00-05:00

As the Closer to Equality capital campaign continues to make progress raising critical funds needed to build and open the Stevens and Smith Historic Site, we're pleased to announce the expansion of our project Steering...

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Historic Candidacies

2008-05-07T16:18:00-05:00

The 2008 Pennsylvania Primary is over and as the media moves on to Indiana and North Carolina they continue to define only half of the Democratic candidacy as historic. How little they understand the history they are...

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The Great Commoner Honored in Bronze

2008-04-07T18:36:00-05:00

April 4th…we’ve never known the sun to shine regularly on Thaddeus Stevens’ birthday. Despite April showers, several hundred friends turned out to honor the Great Commoner on the anniversary of his 219th birthday. And what...

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Unveilings

2008-04-04T07:46:02-05:00

As we've begun to plan exhibits for the Stevens and Smith Historic Site we're finding that a motif of "see" and "unseen" is driving us as we look at aspects of the lives of Thaddeus Stevens and Lydia Hamilton Smith. As a...

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What Would Lydia Think?

2008-04-03T19:43:03-05:00

We speak rather smugly these days of our rights, what's fair, whether we have equality in our homes, on our jobs, in society. What must Lydia Hamilton Smith felt in her time; during the mid 1800s? She was an American of...

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Women’s business conference taps spirit of 19th century black entrepreneur.

2008-03-28T12:01:03-05:00

Lydia Hamilton Smith, housekeeper and confidante to Thaddeus Stevens, managed to own property and run businesses in the 19th century, long before women were able to strike out on their own, in business. Although history...

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Trust Announces Appointment Of Director Of Stevens & Smith Historic Site

2007-05-08T19:33:01-05:00

Gail Tomlinson's connections to our community begin with the community into which she was born and raised along with four brothers, in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. She has often been heard to comment that the year...

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