in a slip off the Houston Ship Channel adjacent to the San Jacinto Battleground State H istoric Site. A ve tera n of both world wa rs, the Texas is the only rem aining dreadnou ght. (Battleship Texas State Historic Sire, 3523 I ndependence Parkway South LaPorte, TX 77571 ; Ph . 281 479-243 1; ww w.tpwd. state.tx.us/ state-parks/ batdeship-texas) The United States Postal Service is issuing five n ew New England lighthouse st a mps on 13 July w ith special dedication ceremonies taking place a t o r n ear all five locations. The New England C oas tal Lightho uses Forever stamps celebrate Portland H ead (Cape Elizabeth, M aine); Portsmouth H arbor (New Cas tle, New H a mpshire) ; Point J udith, (Narraga nsett, R hode Island); New London (New London , C on necticut); and Boston H a rbor (Boston, Massach usetts). Howa rd Koslow designed the new stamps. In addition to many other sta mp p rojects, Koslow has produced the art for the USPS lightho uses series: t he fi ve li ghthouses in the 1990 stamp booklet and stamps with the im ages of lighthouses in the Great Lakes (1995), the South eas t (2003), the Pacific (2007), a nd the G ulf Coast (2 009). (You ca n pu rch ase these stamps th is summer at your local post office or by orderin g them online at www. usps.com .) In April, the UNESCO Slave Route Proj ect and the Harriet Tubma n Institute announced the release of a new title in the Harriet Tubma n Series on the
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A frican Diaspora, The Transatlantic Sla ve Trade and Sla very: N ew D irection s in Teach ing and L earning. Edited by Paul E . Lovejoy and Benj amin Bowser, the book is an anthology of papers from a 2010 international wo rkshop organized by the U N ESCO Slave Route Project. The Slave Ro ute Proj ect was launched in 1999 w ith the goal of safe g uarding and improving access to o riginal documents related to slavery and the slave trade. It aims to create a searchable database of slave trade archives and en gage in digitization of prim ary documents. Organ izers of a 2nd workshop p lan ned for 25- 26 October are inviting proposals for the two-day event th at will examine historical and contemporary ransoming practices in A fri ca , Europe, and Asia. Selected papers wi ll be published in a special issue of the journal, Af rican Economic H istory, a nd as an edited volum e to be published in the H a rr iet Tubma n Series on the Afri ca n D iaspora, A fri ca W orl d Press. For purposes of the workshop, "ransoming" is defin ed as the m ak ing of paym ents fo r the re turn of a captive or hostage . Ra nsom ing is differentiated from redemption in th at whereas a ransomed captive returns home, a redeem ed slave usually remains in h is/her former owner's society in a subservient position . The purpose of the workshop is to promote dialogue across regio nal and disciplinary divides between scholars workin g on different aspects of ransom ing. (The worksh op will take place at York University in Toronto, O N. For more information , co ntac t Jennifer Lofkrantz at lofkrantz@gen eseo. ed u or O latunji Ojo at ooj o@brocku.ca.) .. . The 12th International Sailing Summit is b eing held 18-20 August in San Francisco, during the r unning of the 3 4th Am erica's C up. Since its inception at the '99 World C h ampionships in Geelong, t he ISS h as become an important n etworki ng event for the sailing industry. The event brings leaders in the sport of sailing together w ith ma ri ne industry professionals to exchange ideas and close the loop between suppliers and co nsumers. (The 201 3 ISS w ill take p lace at the St. Francis Yach t Club, 99 Yach t Rd ., Sa n Francisco, CA 94 123; www. sailamerica .com) The 92-yea r-old champion racing yach t Bernida recently found a new home at the Michiga n M aritime Museum and w ill b e availa ble for d ay sails and charters. Th e recently restored Bernida was donated by A l Declercq after he steered the boat to victory in the 2012 Bayview-Mackinac Race, which the Bernida won back in 1925 for t he in augural race a nd again two years later in 1927. The museum's orher vessels incl ude the to psail sloop Friends Good Will and th e m otor launch Lindy Lou. (MMM , 260 D yckman Avenue, South H aven, MI 49 090 ; www.m ich ignmaririm emu seum. o rg ) .1 SEA HISTORY 143 , SUMMER 20 13