… Aurelius’s “Meditations,” Albert Camus’s “The Plague,” Mary Douglas’s “Purity and Danger,” Lucretius’ “On the Nature … We research and teach materials that instruct us how people think through what their lives are and how they can …
… the Straits ” (The New Press). Dunbar is the Charles and Mary Beard Professor of History at Rutgers, the State … that the book’s revelations about the social life of black people in Philadelphia and their constant struggle to triumph … Dawn of Detroit” places the northwestern region and unfree people and labor at the heart of colonial and early American …
… the product of general human interest and the Arthur and Mary Wright Prize for outstanding dissertation in the field … history for several years. It was fascinating to see these people in Mexico City, of all places, and I wanted to chart … at Yale. I loved the opportunity to engage with other people’s work. I learned so much from my colleagues in the …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition