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What's New at the Gilder Lehrman Center Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellowship The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, invites applications for a residential fellowship from scholars and public intellectuals to study the fundamental origins and circumstances surrounding debt bondage, forced labor, human trafficking, and other forms of modern day slavery. (more...) GLC and National Museum of African American History and Culture partner to host Yale Public History Institute The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) will host the Yale Public History Institute on July 22-29, 2012, a program that brings together Yale graduate students, historians, and public history institutions—museums, historic sites, libraries—to explore and develop ways to interpret African American history and culture for the broader public. (Website)  |  (Press Release) Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program The Gilder Lehrman Center is accepting applications for their 2012-13 Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (more...) Nominations for the 2012 Frederick Douglass Prize The Gilder Lehrman Center is accepting nominations for the 2012 Frederick Douglass Prize (more...) University of Pennsylvania Professor Wins $25,000 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Stephanie McCurry, Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, has been selected as the winner of the 2011 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for her book, Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South (Harvard University Press). The Douglass Prize is awarded annually by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. (more...) History Day in Connecticut For information on the New Haven regional History Day competition, sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center, visit http://www.yale.edu/glc/nhd/index.htm. The Civil War at 150: The past in the present? (Kansas City Star, Sunday, Aug. 28) David W. Blight Why can't we just get over the Civil War in America? Why does it still have such a hold on our imagination, on our political habits and rhetoric, on the stories through which we define ourselves as a people and a nation? Why is the Confederacy, a mere four-year experiment in revolution to preserve a slaveholding society, still so interesting to so many people? (Read more...) In Memory's Mirror (The American Interest, September - October 2011) David W. Blight Nationalism and historical memory are as inseparable in modern history as air and breathing. In his 1961 masterwork, The Legacy of the Civil War, Robert Penn Warren succinctly and lyrically described the place of the war in the nation's memory: "The Civil War draws us as an oracle darkly unriddled and portentous, of national as well as personal fate." This connection of the personal to the national, of individual and family memory to the country's contending narratives of the Civil War, has infused the American imagination through one anniversary after another, up to the 150th this year. (Read more...) American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era David Blight takes his readers back to the centennial celebration of the Civil War to determine how Americans then made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation that had wracked the United States a century earlier. Amid cold war politics and civil rights protest, four of America's most incisive writers explored the gulf between remembrance and reality. Read more about David Blight's new book at http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674048553 GLC and Yale Press's Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade Wins Hawkins Award Association of American Publishers Announces 2010 PROSE Award Winners (Read more...) Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center and the Instructional Technology Group, the Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal is designed to help researchers and students find primary source material related to slavery and its legacies within the university's many libraries and galleries. The Bibliography of Slavery and World Slaving A joint project of the University of Virginia and the Gilder Lehrman Center, the Bibliography of Slavery is a searchable database containing references to approximately 25,000 scholarly works in all academic disciplines and in all western European languages on slavery and slaving, worldwide and throughout human history, including modern times.