This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the superior resources and infrastructure of the North, which helped it overpower the South in the Civil War, even though the South had the home turf advantage.
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"The North Brookfield Historical Society was founded in 1975 and later incorporated, for the purpose of studying, sharing, publicizing, and preserving the history of the town. It seeks to do this through regular meetings, programs, acquiring historic objects, photographs, and printed materials." The society is currently working towards creating a museum and continues to assemble materials and artifacts pertaining to North Brookfield history and genealogy.
The site offers general information regarding the society.
A museum is under development. The above entry is pre-existing.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the provision of the Emancipation Proclamation which called for blacks to enlist in the Union army, and notes that it took years before their pay was comparable to whites.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how the production demands of World War I draw blacks and whites from rural areas to factory jobs in the cities. However, along with that migration came racial tension.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces zealous abolitionist John Brown, who believed violence was the only way to end slavery.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, after the Civil War, a group of influential southerners promoted a vision and some said a myth about a "New South" that would be competitive with the north.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the entrance of Missouri into the Union in 1819 and the compromise reached about whether Missouri should be a slave or free state.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the viewpoints and reform activities of women in the years immediately prior to the Civil War. While many women in the North were advocating the abolition of slavery, Southern women were still defending their way of life.
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