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Columns::March 4, 2002

Around academe

Amherst prof wins Lincoln Prize
This year’s Lincoln Prize went to a book that examines the effect of the Civil War on American racial concepts. The award, created in 1989 to honor scholarly works on Abraham Lincoln, carries a $50,000 prize and will be presented in New York on April 2.
This year’s winner is David Blight, a professor of history and black studies at Amherst College. His book is entitled Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. In addition to the cash prize, he will receive a replica bronze bust of Abraham Lincoln. Honorable mention went to Alice Fahs, an associate professor of history at the University of California at Irvine, and Kenneth J. Winkle, a professor of history at the University of Nebraska.

Fairfield U. alumnus takes hostages
A 2001 graduate took 22 students and a professor hostage inside a Fairfield University religious studies classroom last month, claiming to have a bomb. He released his hostages by groups during the course of the evening. About 300 other students were safely evacuated from the building. Police took the suspect into custody, charged him with kidnapping and held him on a $500,000 bond.

--Jocelyn Newman

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