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GILDER LEHRMAN CENTER SPRING FORUM: The Problem of Slavery In Public History

Tuesday, April 26, 4 p.m.
Luce Hall Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Ave.
New Haven, CT
Free.

A panel of public historians examines how historic sites, museums, and
other public history venues have dealt with the topic of slavery. Panelists
include:

--Rex Ellis, Vice President of the Historic Area at Colonial Williamsburg

--Marie Galbraith, Director, The Mattatuck Museum

--James O. Horton, the Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and
History, George Washington University and Director, Afro-American
Communities Project of the National Museum of American History

--Dwight Pitcaithley, Historian, the National Park Service

--Dianne Swann-Wright, Curator, The Frederick Douglass-Isaac Meyers
Maritime Park, and former Director of African American and Special
Programs, Monticello

Sponsored by The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,
Resistance, and Abolition
For more information, call 432-3339 or visit our website: www.yale.edu/glc

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