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David Brion Davis (February 16, 1927 – April 14, 2019) Sterling Professor of History, Yale University Founding Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
November 19, 2019
In honor of founding director David Brion Davis (February 16, 1927 – April 14, 2019),the Gilder Lehrman Center announces the establishment of a new endowed fund for the...
A Deep History of Slavery: Antiquity and Modernity In Dialogue
November 18, 2019
Throughout human history, people have enslaved others, though the intensification of such practices has varied across time and space. Historians have long recognized these...
November 12, 2019
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition announces the winner of the 21st annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize. The 2019...
David Blight, GLC Director, guiding CIC faculty members through a primary source workshop at Yale Manuscripts and Archives.
November 8, 2019
The Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) at the MacMillan Center at Yale University...
From left: David Blight, Raymond O. Arsenault, and Benny Sims Jr.
October 29, 2019
On October 22, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, and Resistance (GLC) at the MacMillan Center hosted a book talk with Raymond O. Arsenault, the...
Edward Rugemer talks about Slave Law and the Politics of Resistance in the Early Atlantic World
October 16, 2019
Edward Rugemer is an Associate Professor of African American Studies & History at Yale who studies comparative slavery and abolition and antebellum U.S. history. Marilyn ...
Chocolate event explores cocoa industry slavery
October 1, 2019
Students walking by Cross Campus on Friday afternoon were greeted by free chocolate — handed out by Tony’s Chocolonely to promote the company’s mission of 100 percent slave-...