Internships & Essays

The Douglass Project had its first group of undergraduate interns in the Spring of 2002. We hope that future semesters will bring more interns and more essays. For more information about the internships, please contact us.

The Douglass Project is pleased to present the work of the undergraduates who have participated in the Project. Their essays are currently available, along with their transcriptions of the letters they used in their projects.

More information about the editorial practices used in preparing the transcriptions can be found here.

Undergraduate Interns:

Spring 2005:

• Rebecca Caesar: Frederick Douglass' Relationship with Abraham Lincoln

• Will Fassett: The North Star, 1847-1849: Based on Evidence Found in the Paper's Ledger

Spring 2002:

• Terry Allen: Blacks in Britain
• Katharine Beecher Brodock: Abolitionism and Anti-Slavery
• Eric Horan: Commentary on Letters 83 and 98
• Jay Thompson: Toward Douglassonian Abolitionism: The Rift Between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison

2002 Graduate Interns:

• Brandon Barr
• Katherine Kyger

Faculty Advisors:

• Larry Hudson
• Michael Jarvis
• Robert Westbrook

Library Staff:

• Jessica Lacher-Feldman, Assistant Dean, Special Collections and Preservation, Joseph N. Lambert and Harold B. Schleifer Director, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation