The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The Institute. Public Programs and Exhibitions

PODCASTS: HISTORIANS ON SLAVERY AND ABOLITION

Eric Foner: The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

James O. Horton: Slavery in the Founding Era

David Blight: The Underground Railroad

James G. Basker: The Story Behind "Amazing Grace"

For more historians' lectures, including Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on African American Biographies, Ira Berlin on the History of Slavery in America, James G. Basker on Anti-Slavery Literature, and Christopher L. Brown on the Fight over Slavery in the Founding Era, please visit our audio podcast page

OUR ONLINE JOURNAL: HISTORY NOW

Issue No. 2, 2004: Primary Sources on Slavery
Issue No. 3, 2005: African Immigration to Colonial America
Issue No. 4, 2005: The History of Abolition
Issue No. 6, 2005: The Emancipation Proclamation

CURRICULUM MODULES FROM OUR WEBSITE

Our Curriculum Modules provide a succinct historical overview, lesson plans, quizzes, primary sources and other resources on the following topics:

The History of Slavery in America
Pre-Civil War Reform (1820-1860)
Reconstruction (1870s)

FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOOK PRIZE WINNERS

2009 (awarded in 2010)
Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
(W.W. Norton and Company)

2008: Stephanie E. Smallwood
Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora
(Harvard University Press)

2007: Christopher Leslie Brown
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
(Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and University of North Carolina Press)

2006: Rebecca J. Scott
Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery
(Harvard University Press)

For more, see the Institute's Frederick Douglass Book Prize page

DOCUMENTS AND EXHIBITIONS

Slideshow:
Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery

Traveling Exhibition: "Free at Last: A History of the Abolition of Slavery in America." This exhibition traces the history of the movement to abolish slavery from the framing of the Constitution to its abolition during the Civil War. It illuminates shades of opinion within the ranks of the famous and ordinary, free and slave, men and women to come to see slavery as incompatible with the ideals upon which the nation was founded. (Two version available: one requires 40-50 running feet, the other requires 60-70 running feet) . Book an exhibition

THE HISTORY SHOP

Posters
22" x 30" posters
$10 each
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Frederick Douglass c.1870

Phillis Wheatley,
1773
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Calendars
$12.95 each
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Calendar of the Abolition of Slavery
Featuring daily historical facts and full-color portraits of individuals instrumental in the fight against slavery in the United States including Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Dred Scott, and Harriet Beecher Stowe..

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Books Books
$14.95 each
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Slavery in the Founding Era (booklet, 48pp) edited by James G. Basker

Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings 1760-1820 (paperback) edited by James G. Basker More Info

Abraham Lincoln: History in a Box - $150
In Production: Slavery and Abolition Box
release date: October, 2009
This box includes a resource book and CD containing primary source documents, artwork, maps, study questions, and a list of additional resources; posters of documents and illustrations; an interactive CD-ROM containing letters, photographs, and songs from the Civil War; portrait cards of key figures from the era; a timeline of Lincoln’s life; and Historians on the Record: Abraham Lincoln, a DVD of eight lectures by leading scholars.
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