Congrats to CUNY early American historian David Waldstreicher, the winner of the 2024 George Washington Book Prize for The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet’s Journeys Through American Slavery. Here is the press release: David Waldstreicher has been awarded the […]
Phillis Wheatley
Boston Seminar: Day 2
If you missed the Day 1 summary get up to speed here. Day 2 of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History/Wilderness Education Project trip to Boston with Roanoke, VA-area teachers was packed with educational opportunities. We started out at […]
David Waldstreicher brings his “blunt intellectual style” to a biography of Phillis Wheatley
Here is Jennifer Schuessler at The New York Times: Around 1772, Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved teenager in Boston, sat down to write a poem called “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” which began with praise for the “mercy” that […]
Found: A new Phillis Wheatley poem
Here is a press release from the State University of New York at Albany: A University at Albany professor has discovered the earliest known full-length elegy by famed poet Phillis Wheatley (Peters), widely regarded as the first Black person, enslaved […]