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    photo of Tyrone Freeman's, Kristina Richardson's, Natalia Romik's and Efthymia Nikita's podcasts on the BBC website
    June 16, 2022
    Podcast Series: Nine conversations with the winners of the 2022 Dan David Prize

    Browse and listen to all episodes on History Extra - the official website for BBC History Magazine and BBC History Revealed.

    HistoryExtra

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    Nine winners of the 2022 Dan David Prize
    May 12, 2022
    BOG 2022: Nine Winners Receive Reimagined Dan David Prize

    New focus on history reaffirms importance of field, supports early and midcareer researchers and practitioners

    Tel Aviv University

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    March 31, 2022
    Interview with Mirjam Brusius

    The museums expert explains how every historical artefact has not just one story, but many

    Simon Baker, Times Higher Education

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    Dr. Efthymia Nikita
    March 30, 2022
    Dr. Efthymia Nikita sees our connectivity through time and space

    The Dan David Prize winner integrates human skeletal data with archaeobotanical, zooarchaeological and historical evidence in order to form a more well-rounded view of the past.

    Judith Sudilovsky, The Jerusalem Post

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    March 28, 2022
    How MacKenzie Scott’s $12 billion in gifts to charity reflect an uncommon trust in the groups she supports

    We asked philanthropy historian Tyrone Freeman to weigh in on Scott’s approach to donating large sums of money and her emphasis on other forms of generosity.

    Tyrone McKinley Freeman, The Conversation

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    March 27, 2022
    How HBCUs Inspire Black Scholars

    According to Freeman, “HBCUs were always around me, in my blood.”

    Marybeth Gasman, Forbes

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    The NonProfit Times
    March 23, 2022
    Podcast: Dan David Prize Winner Tyrone Freeman

    A woman builds a business empire and then goes on to give away millions of dollars to charity. It’s not an unusual story, at least not today — but if the woman was an African-American during the Jim Crow era?

    The NonProfit Times

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    March 1, 2022
    The new Dan David Prize announces inaugural cohort of winners

    The Prize has selected nine outstanding scholars and practitioners of history to receive $300,000 each in recognition of breakthrough achievements in the study of the past and to support the winners’ future endeavors

    Eureka Alert

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    Tyrone Freeman
    March 8, 2022
    Nine Questions for Tyrone McKinley Freeman, Author of “Madam C.J. Walker’s Gospel of Giving”

    "I hope givers today working within this tradition become even more connected to the history. This is how we have survived," Freeman says of Black philanthropy.

    Ade Adeniji, Inside Philanthropy

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    2022 Dan David Prize winners
    March 2, 2022
    Dan David Prize goes to 9 history scholars, each gets $300K

    The Dan David Prize board said the nine are being recognized for “breakthrough achievements in the study of the past” in new and creative ways

    The Associated Press

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    An example of the types of records Kimberly Welch uses in her research of Black litigants in the antebellum South. (Kimberly Welch)
    March 1, 2022
    A new MacArthur-style ‘genius grant’ for history names its first winners

    Natalia Romik had just returned to Warsaw from a five-week research trip through Kyiv’s sewers and caves, where she studies Jewish hiding places during the Holocaust, when she learned she had won the Dan David Prize.

    Gillian Brockell, The Washington Post

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    Sept. 15, 2021
    With Truth Under Attack Daily, a Big Philanthropic Prize Will Celebrate the Study of History

    At $300,000 per award, the Dan David Prize is significant for a couple of reasons. For one, it’s the biggest prize for scholars in history. Also, it will go to people in the early or middle stages in their careers, the better to enable them to advance their work.

    Paul Karon, Inside Philanthropy

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