Winter/Spring 2004
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CIC and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History have announced the third annual seminar for CIC faculty members in history and related fields. This year's seminar, to be held at Columbia University in New York City on August 9-11, will focus on “Slavery: Scholarship and Public History.” The seminar will be directed by David Blight, Professor of History at Yale University, and James Oliver Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University. 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. 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. 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 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. Up to 30 faculty members will be selected by competitive nomination; those who wish to participate must be nominated by the chief academic officer of the nominee’s institution. The nomination deadline is April 23, 2004, and selected participants will be announced Friday, May 14. For more information, click here. Independent |
