After sixteen years at the Schomburg Center and three years as inaugural director of the Lapidus Center, I am retiring. I am proud of the work accomplished so…
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“The eyes” said the artist Questlove as he stared at the photo of his ancestor Charlie Lewis. “We have the same eyes.” Questlove had just discovered that Lewis…
Congratulations to UConn Professor and Lapidus Center Advisor Manisha Sinha, winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for her superb bookThe Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition. …
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is delighted to announce that David Wheat’s Atlantic Africa…
Pulitzer Prize winner and Lapidus Center Advisor Eric Foner reviews Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War. Read full review here.
With great sorrow, I have to report the passing of Dr. Anthony Kaye. Tony was a dear friend and collaborator of the Lapidus Center. Since the inception of the fellowship…
Lapidus Center Advisor David Eltis, Lapidus Center Fellow Philip Misevich, Lapidus Center presenter Nafees Khan, Daniel Domingues, and Nicholas Radburn unveil new tools they developed for the extraordinary digital…
The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 2, 2017 “In the fall of 2006, Brown University published a landmark report detailing the historical complicity of its founders and benefactors…
“Long before today’s anxiety about terror attacks, Spain and England feared that enslaved Africans would be more susceptible to revolt if they were Muslim” writes Andrew Lawler in…
Manisha Sinha, Lapidus Center Advisor and author of “The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition” (Yale University Press), recently published a review of Colson Whitehead’s highly acclaimed novel…