New Associate Director and Curator of the Lapidus Center
Michelle Commander joined the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture as Associate Director and Curator of the Lapidus Center…
Dr. Diouf Bids Farewell to the Schomburg Center
After sixteen years at the Schomburg Center and three years as inaugural director of the Lapidus Center, I am retiring.…
Questlove, Charlie Lewis, and the Last Slave Ship
“The eyes” said the artist Questlove as he stared at the photo of his ancestor Charlie Lewis. “We have the…
Manisha Sinha Wins the 2017 Frederick Douglass Book Prize
Congratulations to UConn Professor and Lapidus Center Advisor Manisha Sinha, winner of the 2017 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for her…
The Army and Slavery in the British Caribbean: Creating The West India Regiments 1795-1820
November 27, 2017 @ Noon Tim Lockley, “The Army and Slavery in the British Caribbean: Creating The West India Regiments 1795-1820”…
David Wheat Wins the 2017 Harriet Tubman Book Prize
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is…
Behind the Scenes at the NMAAHC
Thursday, October 19 @ 6:00pm How was the Slavery and Freedom exhibition at the National Museum of African American History…
Lapidus Center Inaugural Conference
The Lapidus Center inaugural conference, “Reckoning With Slavery: New Directions in the History, Memory, Legacy, and Popular Representations of Enslavement”…
2017 Harriet Tubman Prize Finalists
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2017 annual…
Dutch New York Histories
Thursday August 3, 2017 @ 6:30pm Dutch rule in New Amsterdam and New Netherland (1609-1664) was short in comparison to…