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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Council of
Independent Colleges
Announce a Seminar for Historians
"Slavery: Scholarship and Public History"
August 9-11, 2004, Columbia University
Nomination Deadline: Friday, April 23, 2004
Directed by David W. Blight, Professor of History, Yale University,
and James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and
History, George Washington University
The Council of Independent Colleges and the Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History are pleased to announce the third annual seminar for
CIC faculty members in history and related fields. This year’s seminar
will focus on “Slavery: Scholarship and Public History.” The
seminar will be directed by David W. Blight, professor of history at Yale
University and James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American
Studies and History at George Washington University. For those accepted
to participate in the seminar, all expenses of participation except travel
to and from New York will be covered by the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
During the intensive three-day seminar, participants will examine more
than a century’s worth of writings by historians who have attempted
to explain the history of American slavery and its role in the formation
of the nation’s political, economic, and social structure. Their
changing interpretations reflect the state of American historical scholarship
and the racial dynamics of the nation. This seminar will focus on American
slavery scholarship, and the difficulty of public presentation of this
most important aspect of American history as it confronts the nation’s
memory and sense of heritage.
David W. Blight is the author of Race and Reunion: The Civil War
in American Memory, for which he won the 2001 Frederick Douglass
Prize and the 2002 Bancroft and Lincoln Prizes. His other books include
Beyond the Battlefield: Race, Memory and the Civil War; Frederick
Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee; and the edited volumes,
When This Cruel War is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey
Brewster; Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass; and
The Souls of Black Folk, by W.E.B. DuBois.
James O. Horton is director of the African American Communities Project
at the National Museum of American History, a member of the Lincoln Bicentennial
Commission, and president-elect of the Organization of American Historians.
He is author of Free People of Color: Inside the African American
Community, and co-author (with his wife Lois E. Horton) of In
Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks,
1700-1860; Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle
in the Antebellum North; and Hard Road to Freedom: The Story
of African America.
Click here to view the Gilder
Lehrman History Seminar Announcement. (This is
a PDF file. In order to view properly, the minimum software requirement
is version 4.0. Adobe Acrobat is available for free from the Adobe
Web site.)
Click
here for Gilder Lehrman coverage in the Winter/Spring 2004
issue of the Independent.
2003 Gilder Lehrman History Seminar
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