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February 19, 2024
On Friday, February 16, 2024, the Yale University Office of the President announced the release of the book Yale and Slavery: A History (Yale University Press, 2024). The...
February 16, 2024
Yale today announced further actions to address findings from the Yale and Slavery Research Project, published a book about the findings, and issued an apology. Yale...
Ana Lucia Araujo in conversation with Cécile Fromont. Photo by Daniel Vieira
February 9, 2024
Article by Sebastian Ward (YC ’26), Gilder Lehrman Center Student Assistant Edited by Michelle Zacks, Gilder Lehrman Center Associate Director “Here I had to work with...
January 31, 2024
Oral arguments for the US Supreme Court case Trump v. Anderson are scheduled for February 8, 2024. At issue is the Colorado Supreme Court order excluding former President...
Photo by Stephanie Anestis. Panelists Scott Spillman, Rachel Swarns, Craig Steven Wilder, and Leslie Harris with moderator David W. Blight
December 21, 2023
By Evan Turiano, Walter O. Evans Fellow for the Study of Slavery and Race, Gilder Lehrman Center and Beinecke Library   On December 13, 2023, the Gilder Lehrman Center for...
Hope McGrath (Research Coordinator for Yale, New Haven, and Connecticut History, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library); Risë Nelson (Member of the Yale and Slavery Working Group and Director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility, Yale Library); and Christopher M. Rabb (YC ’92; genealogist, family historian, and author). Photo by Daniel Vieira
December 4, 2023
Article by Sebastian Ward (YC ’26), Gilder Lehrman Center Student Assistant Edited by Michelle Zacks, Gilder Lehrman Center Associate Director   “I had to make a decision...
November 14, 2023
New Haven, Conn.— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-fifth annual...