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Andrew Delbanco: The 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Nonfiction

JMC faculty partner Andrew Delbanco has won a 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for his book, The War Before the War, which explores how fugitive slaves helped push the nation towards civil war.

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Mercer University: Slave Resistance in the Atlantic World

On February 18 2019, the McDonald Center for America's Founding Principles at Mercer University will host Mark Smith for a lecture on religion and slave resistance in the Atlantic world.

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Forrest Nabors on the Missouri Compromise

On February 19, Forrest Nabors will be giving the 2019 Jack Paynter Lecture at James Madison College, Michigan State University, on the Missouri Compromise and how it led to civil war.

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Fresh Air: Andrew Delbanco on the Fugitive Slave Act

JMC faculty partner Andrew Delbanco discusses the complicated and important history of fugitive slave laws and constitutional protections of slavery on NPR's Fresh Air.

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The Oligarchy of the American South

James Read reviews JMC faculty partner Forrest Nabors' book on southern oligarchy in Antebellum and Postbellum America.

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Does the Constitution Condone or Condemn Slavery?

In an article published in the Library of Law and Liberty, JMC fellow Allen Guelzo discusses whether the Constitution condones or condemns slavery.

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Gregory Collins on Frederick Douglass and Originalism

JMC fellow Gregory Collins has a new article on Frederick Douglass's contributions to originalism.

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Joshua Lynn on the Antebellum Democratic Party

JMC fellow Joshua Lynn discusses his book on the antebellum Democratic Party and its transformation of American conservatism on Yale's "MacMillan Report."

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David Waldstreicher – Missouri Regional Seminar on Early American History

Friday, September 11th

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“Slavery’s End Deserves a 150th Celebration”

Historian Allen Guelzo on the passage of the 13th Amendment, which ended of slavery.

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Justin Dyer on “Confronting Slavery,” by Suzanne Cooper Guasco

Dyer reflects on Guasco's work on "a forgotten figure in American history."

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