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What's New at the Gilder Lehrman Center
- Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law at New York Law School, Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark, and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard University, has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Gordon-Reed won for her book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton and Company). [Press Release]
- 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.
- 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://www.yale.edu/glc/citizens/index.html.
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