A Conversation on the Meaning of Abraham Lincoln   Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Panel Moderator, Alphonse University Professor; Director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University Drew Gilpin Faust, President of Harvard University; Lincoln Professor of History David Blight, Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Race and Abolition; Class of 1954 Professor of American History, Yale University Adam Gopnik, Journalist, The New Yorker; Author, Angels & Ages: How Lincoln and Darwin Invented the Mind of the Modern World Allen Carl Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era; Professor of History, Gettysburg College Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright John Stauffer, Professor of English and of American Literature and Language, Harvard University  John F. Kennedy, Jr. Forum - JFK School of Government, Harvard University, 79 John F. Kennedy St, Cambridge   More from Henry Louis Gates on Abraham Lincoln (books, reviews, video)  

"Writers in the Parlor"   Author Reading from her play, Stick Fly, followed by a question and answer session.   Cosponsored with the Department of English at Harvard University, and the Spencer Fund   Visit the Du Bois Institute Fellows' Library    

Lecture 1: Family Archives: Life / Art / Writing Lecture 2: Sovereignty and Consequences: Cherokee Legal History and Freedmen  

  A Celebration of New Publications by Harvard Faculty and Du Bois Fellows  

Darfur: Anything to do with Slavery?   Co-sponsored by the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Studies  

Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America