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What's New at the Gilder Lehrman Center
- David Blight comments on the coming commemoration of the Civil War in the June 5, 2009 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education [ more... ]
- The Gilder Lehrman Center is part of the Connecticut Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, a state-wide, 14-member commission established by Governor Jodi Rell to plan and organize events for the two-year celebration surrounding the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. For a listing of events in the state of Connecticut visit www.yale.edu/glc/lincoln/index.htm.
- The Gilder Lehrman Center, in partnership with ACES, the New Haven area's Regional Educational Service Center, has been awarded a three- to five-year Teaching American History grant through the Department of Education for New Haven area teachers. For program information and teaching resources, visit the program website.
- Stephanie E. Smallwood, Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle, has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Smallwood won for her book, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Harvard University Press). [Press Release]
- Follow the African American journey to citizenship and uncover paths that lead to current global issues and hometown stories of yesteryear. Visit the Citizens All website at http://cmi2.yale.edu/citizens_all/.
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