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The GLC 21st annual conference announced
February 21, 2019
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition The MacMillan Center of Yale University 21st Annual Conference A Deep History of Slavery: Antiquity...
GLC Fellow, Amb. Luis C.deBaca (ret.), talks about modern day slavery on the The MacMillan Report
February 6, 2019
Ambassador Luis C.deBaca (ret.) is an American lawyer and diplomat who served in the Obama Administration as Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons...
2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Submissions Begin on January 2, 2019
December 21, 2018
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History are pleased to announce the twenty-first...
GLC Fellowship Applications for 2019-2020 now Being Accepted
December 20, 2018
The Gilder Lehrman Center typically offers two types of postdoctoral and faculty fellowships that advance the study of slavery, its role in the creation of the modern world,...
‘Quite the jewel’ – honoring David Blight and his new Douglass biography
December 12, 2018
Ta-Nehisi Coates — bestselling author and distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute — confessed to a packed Yale Art...
An interview with Ambassador, and GLC Fellow, Luis C.deBaca on human trafficking
December 10, 2018
On Friday, December 7th, 2018 the Yale MacMillian Center interviewed GLC  Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellow, Ambassador Luis C.deBaca.  The interview and be...
David W. Blight Discusses “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” with Ta-Nehisi Coates
November 27, 2018
The Gilder Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale will...