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Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region, Inc.

announces

the 6th annual UGR History conference

Underground Railroad: Uncovering the Voices of Women

February 23, 24, 25, 2007
to be held at the College of St. Rose, Albany, New York

Visit <http://www.ugrworkshop.com/>www.ugrworkshop.com for details

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Endorsement - Billie Luisi-Potts, Executive Director, National Women's
Hall 
of Fame

The Capital region Underground Railroad History Project's annual
conference 
is the foremost educational event in the nation, offering an
extraordinary 
combination of scholarship, grassroots involvement and community 
engagement. This year's conference, focusing on the voices of women of
the 
Underground Railroad is pioneering, unique and not to be missed.


Endorsement - Clifford Oliver, photographer, re-enactor

The Capital Region Underground Railroad History Project's 
Annual  Conference is a wonderful educational event, offering 
an  extraordinary combination of scholarship, entertainment 
and  grassroots  involvement. This year's conference, focusing on 
the  voices of women of the Underground Railroad is pioneering, unique

and  compelling. You would do yourself a great disservice not to
attend.


Endorsement - Judy Wellman, Consulting Historian and Principal 
Investigator, Historical new York Research Associates

We might as well be honest: the Capital Region's Underground Railroad 
History Conference is the highlight of the year, not only for people in
New 
York State but for everyone interested in the Underground Railroad 
everywhere. It is an energetic and energizing gathering of citizens, 
scholars, artists, and booksellers--a polyphonic collection of people
of 
all ages, sharing their voices and their vision. This year's theme of
women 
and the Underground Railroad highlights an exceptionally important
topic 
and promises to open up new avenues of research, challenging
long-accepted 
ideas. If you follow the cutting edge of UGRR work, you won't want to
miss 
this!


Endorsement - Fergus M. Bordewich, author of "Bound for Canaan: The 
Undergrund Railroad and the War for the Soul of America"

The annual Capitol Region symposium is the gold standard of Underground

Railroad conferences, a national model for other communities which are
in 
the process of reclaiming their role in antebellum abolitionist
history. 
Year after year, this event has achieved the seemingly impossible:
bringing 
together an extraordinary spectrum of attendees, ranging from noted 
scholars and authors to large numbers of interested laymen, in spirited
and 
informative workshops which both bring history alive and open new
avenues 
of research into this much misunderstood phase of American history.