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Revolutionary Perspectives: R. Isabela Morales

March 23, 2025 · 3 p.m.
Garden House
Free

KTM&HC's Revolutionary Perspectives series continues on Sunday, March 23 with an in-person talk by R. Isabela Morales, author of Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom.  

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R. Isabela Morales, Ph.D. is an award-winning author and historian. Her first book, Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom, was awarded the 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize from Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center, the 2023 Tom Watson Brown Book Award from the Society of Civil War Historians, the 2023 Shapiro Book Prize from the Huntington Library, the 2023 William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize from the American Society for Legal History, and the 2024 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association. She is the Education and Exhibit Manager at the Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum, Central New Jersey's first dedicated Black history museum, and the founding editor of Princeton University's expansive public history initiative, The Princeton & Slavery Project. 

KTM&HC's Revolutionary Perspectives series, in its second season, celebrates innovative approaches to how we discover, interpret, and share American history, with an emphasis on themes of memory and identity. The series is supported by a grant from the Wadsworth R. Lewis Fund. Thank you!

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