“The Free State Of Jones”
Lapidus Center Advisors David Blight and Eric Foner were historical consultants on the upcoming film Free State of Jones, based on…
Photographs and Prints Collection
Looking for photo and print collections pertaining to the slave trade, slavery, and abolition? The Photographs and Prints Division of…
Creating a New Database on the Slave Trade
Recent research has shown that arrival in the New World from Africa did not always mark the end of a…
Abolitionists are American Democracy’s Unsung Heroes
Lapidus Center Advisor Manisha Sinha on how Harriet Tubman’s story illustrates that “slave resistance rather than bourgeois liberalism lay at…
Separate, Equal and Far Away
Read Eric Foner’s review of Nicholas Guyatt’s Bind Us Apart: How Enlightened Americans Invented Racial Segregation.
Georgetown University and Slavery
In 1838 Georgetown University sold 272 men, women, and children owned by the Jesuit priests, to Louisiana to help secure the…
Our Advisors on “Hamilton” and Hamilton
Lapidus Center’s Advisors Eric Foner, Annette Gordon-Reed, and Sean Wilentz share their thoughts on the musical “Hamilton”, and the man…
Black Indian Lives of the Past and Present: A Dialogue
Relations between African Americans and Native Americans have been complex. While some nations enslaved black men and women; others welcomed runaways in their villages…
Reclaiming Our Ancestors
Dred Scott, William Grimes, Solomon Northup, and Jeffrey Brace are well-known African Americans who suffered under and fought against slavery. To explore the lives,…
Thomas Jefferson, Slavery, and Race
In the groundbreaking work, “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs”: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination, Annette Gordon-Reed teamed up…