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Frederick Douglass
August 29, 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...
Tom Thurston with a group of CT and Sierra Leonean history teachers at the Amistad Memorial in New Haven, CT (2019)
August 7, 2023
On Friday, August 11, Thomas Thurston ’07 M.Phil. will retire from his role as Director of Education and Public Outreach at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery...
May 30, 2023
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale is thrilled to announce the hire of Daisha Brabham as GLC...
April 25, 2023
Yale University professor David Blight discussed a series of short biographies from Yale University Press that illustrate the concept of African American identity. About...
March 27, 2023
Join the Gilder Lehrman Center on Thursday, May 4th  for an in-person book talk featuring GLC Director David Blight in conversation with Richard J.M. Blackett (Andrew Jackson...
Photo by Andrew Hurley
January 24, 2023
by Sebastian Ward (YC ’26) Woolsey Hall was packed with a diverse array of bright faces on Wednesday, January 18, 2023, but the gathering was not a celebration. This message...
Tiya Miles and Jennifer L. Morgan
November 16, 2022
New Haven, Conn.— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the winners for the twenty-fourth annual...