Fergus Bordewich News and Appearances

	Appearances in 2011 May 10-14, 2011 Bourbon, Cigars and War: Kentucky as a Linchpin: Blue and Grey Education Society is Proud to present this Civil War Sesquicentennial Study Program featuring Fergus M Bordewich. Registration required.
	Appearances and Press Contacts Bordewich has spoken throughout the country at locations including the United States Capital, New York Historical Society, Georgia Historical Society, Indiana Historical Society, Chicago Historical Society, Colgate University (NY), Temple University (PA), Dickinson College (PA), Guilford College (NC), University of Toronto, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center (OH), Reginald Lewis African American History and Culture Museum (MD), John Jay Homestead (NY), and many other venues. American historian and author Fergus M. Bordewich lives in Washington D.C. and is available by appointment for appearances and interviews. For press and personal enquiries contact Fergus Bordewich directly at: fergus.bordewich@yahoo.com. To join a discussion on the myths and reality of the Underground Railroad see Fergus’s Blog.
	Fergus calls Sandy Cash’s Underground Railroad song Banks of Freedom “absolutely WONDERFUL both musically and as an inspired response to and and rendering of Henson's story.” At right, Sandy Cash. Bordewich at the Clark County Heritage Center Civil War symposium (left). Americans know slavery distorted the Declaration of Independence’s claim that “all men are created equal.” But Bordewich argues the issue distorted “the entire American political system” until abolition. Read more. Watch video of Fergus’s October 2010 lecture in the Forum Network website (video). This lecture commemorates the death of John Brown 150 years ago on December 2, 1859. John Brown was an American militant abolitionist leader, hanged for his raid on the federal arsenal at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia in October 1859. Fergus Bordewich discusses John Brown’s background and the series of events that led to his raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859—an act that Brown hoped would lead to a massive slave insurrection. Watch Fergus Bordewich on YouTube speak about his book Washington, from an appearance at Colgate University (video). Watch Fergus speak about his book Washington (video). Watch Fergus speak about his book Bound for Canaan on C-Span (video). Watch Fergus Bordewich on YouTube speak about what inspired the Underground Railroad (video). Watch Fergus Bordewich on YouTube speak about the most serious myth about the Underground Railroad (video). Watch Fergus Bordewich on YouTube speak about the unsung heroes of the Underground Railroad (video). Watch Fergus Bordewich on YouTube speak about what happened to leading agents after the Underground Railroad (video). Watch Fergus speak about the Underground Railroad on Cincinnati Public Media. (video) Hear Fergus speak about Bound for Canaan and the Underground Railroad at Civil War Talk Radio.
		Noted journalist and author Fergus Bordewich discussed his book Bound for Canaan at the Women's Rights National Historical Park on July 28, 2007. The book has been critically acclaimed as the first comprehensive work on the Underground Railroad in more than a century and reveals much previously unknown historical information about the efforts of Quakers, women’s rights advocates, reformers and abolitionists to help black Americans escape slavery.
	Links Fergus Bordewich at the Huffington Post \| Fergus Bordewich at Fresh Fiction \| Civil War links at the Smithsonian \| Fergus Bordewich at GoodReads