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What's New at the Gilder Lehrman Center King's Forgotten Manifesto A New York Times editorial by David Blight and Allison Scharfstein, May 17, 2012 (more...) David W. Blight Receives 2012 Anisfield-Wolf Book Prize The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards has announced that David W. Blight's American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era has received their 2012 prize for nonfiction. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards recognize books that have made important contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the rich diversity of human cultures. (more...) The American Civil War: Legacies for Our Own Time The GLC's recent roundtable discussion commemorating the sesquicentennial of the Civil War and Emancipation is featured on Yale's YouTube station at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8Tm5aXS22o&feature=youtu.be. GLC and National Museum of African American History and Culture partner to host Yale Public History Institute The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will host the Yale Public History Institute on July 22-29, 2012, a program that brings together Yale graduate students, historians, and public history institutions—museums, historic sites, libraries—to explore and develop ways to interpret African American history and culture for the broader public. (Website)  |  (Press Release) Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade wins the 2011-12 Louis Gottschalk Prize The Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis and David Richardson was awarded the 2011-12 Louis Gottschalk Prize at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. University of Pennsylvania Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Stephanie McCurry, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected as the winner of the 2011 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for her book, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard University Press). The Douglass Prize is awarded annually by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. (more...) American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration of the Civil War to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights protest, four of America's most incisive writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Read more about David Blight's new book at http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674048553