News

Lincoln and the Abolitionists

June 23, 2017
Pulitzer Prize winner and Lapidus Center Advisor Eric Foner reviews Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War.…
May 15, 2017
Passing of Anthony Kaye
May 2, 2017
New Tools for the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
March 3, 2017
Stained by Slavery: How Craig Wilder exposed higher education’s past
February 7, 2017
Muslims Were Banned From the Americas As Early as the 16th Century
November 30, 2016
Manisha Sinha on “The Underground Railroad”
August 15, 2016
Beyond The Underground Railroad

Upcoming Programs

Lapidus Center Inaugural Conference

August 21, 2017
The Lapidus Center inaugural conference, “Reckoning With Slavery: New Directions in the History, Memory, Legacy, and Popular Representations of Enslavement” will take…
August 23, 2017
Behind the Scenes at the NMAAHC

Fellowships

Fellowships

October 13, 2015
The Lapidus Center offers two long-term fellowships to assist scholars whose research on transatlantic slavery can benefit from extended access to the…
September 14, 2015
Lapidus Center Fellows

Harriet Tubman Prize

2018 Harriet Tubman Prize

May 25, 2017
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce the third edition of the Harriet Tubman Prize, which…
July 12, 2017
2017 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists
September 12, 2016
Harriet Tubman Prize
October 31, 2016
Aisha Finch’s Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba Wins the Lapidus Center’s First Annual Harriet Tubman Prize
October 3, 2016
2016 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists

Our Collections

New Lapidus Donations

September 17, 2015
The Lapidus collection is continuously growing. In addition to his first 2014 gift of over 400 rare books and documents, Sid Lapidus…
October 13, 2016
The Digital Lapidus Collection
February 2, 2017
Titles Acquired in 2016
March 17, 2016
Web Research
June 2, 2016
Photographs and Prints Collection
June 24, 2016
New Books on Slavery
February 10, 2016
Archive & Manuscript Collections

Podcasts

Podcasts

October 6, 2015
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…

Past Programs

Dutch New York Histories

July 11, 2017
Thursday August 3, 2017 @ 6:30pm Dutch rule in New Amsterdam and New Netherland (1609-1664) was short in comparison to other colonial…
January 24, 2017
Afro-Iberians in the Spanish Empire, 1500s and 1600s
January 9, 2015
Slavery, Universities, Inner Cities
February 13, 2017
Black Music Month in Argentina and Uruguay
December 30, 2016
Black Colonists: The African History of the Early Spanish Caribbean
February 14, 2017
Atlantic Slaveries: Native American and African Slavery in New England and the Caribbean
November 16, 2016
Slavery and Globalization in Arabia

From Our Blog

The Harlem Burial Ground

January 25, 2016
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director of the Lapidus Center. Another African Burial Ground was officially “discovered” in New York City in January…

Online Exhibitions

Black New Yorkers

June 29, 2017
In May or June 1613, Jan Rodrigues, a free sailor from Hispaniola (in what is today the Dominican Republic), who worked for…
December 9, 2015
The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World
August 10, 2015
In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
October 12, 2016
Revisiting Rebellion: Nat Turner in the American Imagination
August 10, 2015
The African Burial Ground
August 11, 2015
The Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Forgotten Story
August 10, 2015
Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery