Aimee Sinsel, an Amherst College junior, was among those in the class, helping to transcribe all 317 names from a handwritten ledger of the all the soldiers from Amherst, both Black and white, a ...

AMHERST — There was a hum of eager conversation on May 7 as a large crowd gathered at the new Ancestral Bridges on Cottage Street.Then, at promptly 4:30 p.m., the door of the single-story office ...