<p>This week, Mr. Sandler and Ms. Madden and twenty three of their students attended the <a href="https://www.gilderlehrman.org/about/yale-and-gilder-lehrman-institute-american-history-announce-2023-frederick-douglass-book-0"><b>twenty-fifth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize</b></a> ceremony at Trinity Church. The prize was shared by two scholars: R. Isabela Morales for <i>Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom</i> and Simon P. Newman for <i>Freedom Seekers: Escaping from Slavery in Restoration London.</i> In partnership with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, the Institute awards an annual prize of $25,000 for an outstanding non-fiction. Students loved participating in the Q&A with scholars and schmoozing with Yale professor and Pulitzer Prize winner David Blight at the reception. They also all received copies of the award-winning books, and had the pleasure of having the professors sign them as well!</p><p><a href="https://www.canva.com/design/DAF-MVIPYps/iysGmghR5s4-hk7vtlhcXQ/view?utm_content=DAF-MVIPYps&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=editor">See a full size photo collage here.</a></p>
