“..A Question of Freedom is a story of American families, of their struggles, dreams, ideas, actions, choices, shortcomings, and possibilities.”
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Momentum - 9.16.2021
More press from The Washington Informer, via William J. Ford.
“The native of New York City’s Brooklyn borough, who colleagues call “Psalm,” also serves as an adjunct professor at Bowie State University.
“Part of my function is to enable the audience to experience catharsis,” he said. “I can’t think of a better story, a better narrative than the stories that exist in this book. My artistic vision and mission is to highlight little-known stories that illuminate the Black experience. This is right up my alley.”
Psalmayene 24, the Playwright commissioned for Freedom Stories speaks to WTOP’s Kristi King.
Author/Historian William G. Thomas III speaks to WTOP on How knowing the past can lead to a more just and equitable present.
Fresh off the Presses - 9.9.2021
First coverage from WTOP news via Kristi King!
We Launch - 9.9.2021
Freedom Stories holds press conference. Announces creative team.
William G. Thomas III is an award-winning historian, author, and film producer. Thomas is the Angle Chair in the Humanities and Professor of History at the University of Nebraska. A native of Alexandria, Virginia, he writes about American history, law, slavery, and the Civil War. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and a Lincoln Prize Finalist.
He is the author of A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War (Yale University Press, 2020) about enslaved families in Maryland who sued for their freedom in the decades after the American Revolution. A Question of Freedom received the 2021 Mark Lynton History Prize and is a 2021 Washington Prize Finalist. A digital media historian, Thomas was co-founder and director of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia and co-editor of the acclaimed digital project, The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War. He has published essays in the American Historical Review, Civil War History, Southern Spaces, Lapham's Quarterly, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
