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Source: Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria
Historians in the News
October 20, 2007

Christopher Leslie Brown: Wins another prize

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has just announced that Columbia University's Christopher Leslie Brown is the winner of this year's Frederick Douglass Prize for his book, Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism. The book has also won the AHA's James A. Rawley Prize.

Joshua Foer,"Remember This," National Geographic, November, looks at the extremities of memory loss and memory retention. Hat tip.

Read entire article at Ralph Luker at HNN blog, Cliopatria