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NEH Summer Teachers Institute on Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
| Location: | United States |
| Date Submitted: |
2010-11-15 |
| Announcement ID: |
180631 |
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Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
Hamilton, NY: June 26-July 22 (4 weeks). This National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for school teachers and up to three graduate students interested in teaching presents leading scholars discussing the fusion of the Underground Railroad and Abolitionism nationally. The Institute emphasizing that these powerful reform forces involved dedicated men and women, whites and blacks in the battle against the slave power in antebellum America. Colgate University is one of the nation’s most beautiful campus. Now in its third year, the Institute is becoming a significant forum for disseminating knowledge about the events and people of the anti slavery movement. Directed by Graham Russell Gao Hodges, Langdon Professor of History at Colgate and author of David Ruggles: Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), the Institute features such speakers as Manisha Sinha, David Gellman, Richard Newman, Judy Wellman, Fergus Bordewich, Milton Sernett, Scott Gac, James Horton, Lois Horton, Stacey Robertson, Stanley Harrold, Stephen Hall, Douglas Egerton, Richard Newman, Reinholdt Johnson, and John Stauffer. Information:
Graham Hodges
Department of History
Colgate University
Hamilton, NY 13346
315/228-7517,
ghodges@colgate.edu For fuller details please consult
www.colgate.edu/Abolitionism/Hodges
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