Pulitzer Prize winner and Lapidus Center Advisor Eric Foner reviews Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War.…
Thursday August 3, 2017 @ 6:30pm Dutch rule in New Amsterdam and New Netherland (1609-1664) was short in comparison to other colonial…
The Lapidus Center offers two long-term fellowships to assist scholars whose research on transatlantic slavery can benefit from extended access to the…
The Harriet Tubman Prize is awarded annually to a distinguished nonfiction book published in the United States on the slave trade, slavery, and anti-slavery in the…
The Lapidus collection is continuously growing. In addition to his first 2014 gift of over 400 rare books and documents, Sid Lapidus…
New ideas, enlightening conversations, cutting-edge research, tomorrow’s trends: it’s all here in the Lapidus Center podcast series. Listen to our visiting scholars as…
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 @ 6:30pm In celebration of Black Music Month, the Lapidus Center presented the documentary film Tango Negro: The…
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Let’s stretch it a bit and discover or learn more…
In May or June 1613, Jan Rodrigues, a free sailor from Hispaniola (in what is today the Dominican Republic), who worked for…