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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...
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...