Richard Bell

Fellowships

2003-04: Stephen Botein Fellowship
Project: Newspapers and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830
2007-08: AAS-National Endowment for the Humanities Long-Term Fellowship
Project: Do Not Despair: Suicide, Property, and Power in the Newly United States
2012-13: Kate B. and Hall J. Peterson Fellowship
Project: The Blackest Market: Patty Cannon, Kidnapping, and the Domestic Slave Trade
2022-23: Legacy Fellowship
Project: The First Freedom Riders:Streetcars and Street Fights in Jim Crow New York

Books Based on Fellowship Research

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and Their Astonishing Odyssey Home

Simon & Schuster, 2020

We Shall Be No More: Suicide and Self-Government in the Newly United States

Harvard University Press, 2012

Public Programs

Stolen: Five Free Boys Kidnapped into Slavery and their Astonishing Odyssey Home

July 14, 2020

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