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, 2025 @ 6:30pm Dutch rule in New Amsterdam and New Netherland (1609-1664) was short in comparison to…
Black New Yorkers
In May or June 1613, Jan Rodrigues, a free sailor from Hispaniola (in what is today the Dominican Republic), who…
Lincoln and the Abolitionists
Pulitzer Prize winner and Lapidus Center Advisor Eric Foner reviews Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the…
2018 Harriet Tubman Prize
The Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery is pleased to announce the third edition of the Harriet Tubman…
Passing of Anthony Kaye
With great sorrow, I have to report the passing of Dr. Anthony Kaye. Tony was a dear friend and collaborator of the…
New Tools for the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Lapidus Center Advisor David Eltis, Lapidus Center Fellow Philip Misevich, Lapidus Center presenter Nafees Khan, Daniel Domingues, and Nicholas Radburn…
African Descendants in India
By Sylviane A. Diouf, Director, Lapidus Center. May is Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Let’s stretch it a bit and discover or…