History came home to Gettysburg. Pulitzer Prize-winner Rick Atkinson shared a powerful reflection on Dwight D. Eisenhower’s courage, command, and conscience; delivered just steps from Ike’s Gettysburg home. Watch the full lecture: https://youtu.be/hBiZylqDpmU Support the Friends of Gettysburg and help keep Eisenhower’s story alive at the Eisenhower National Historic Site: https://www.gettysburgfoundation.org/join-and-give #EisenhowerNHS #RickAtkinson #WWIIWeekend #GunsAtLastLight #GettysburgFoun

Kendrick Lamar wins Pulitzer Prize for music

Caleb McDaniel, associate professor and incoming chair of the Department of History, won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for History for “Sweet Taste of Liberty: A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America.” The book recounts the previously little-known story of Henrietta Wood, who survived enslavement twice and, 30 years after she was first free, won the largest known financial settlement awarded by a U.S. court in restitution for slavery. | Rice University