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October 10, 2018
Roundtable on the Future of Work Co-sponsored by the Ford Foundation and openDemocracy. Commentary from twelve leading experts in the field, including Gilder Lehrman Center...
October 1, 2018
Grace Peña Delgado, Associate Professor of History and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of...
September 19, 2018
Co-sponsored by:The Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration at Yale University  Free and open to the public. There is no charge, but ...
September 19, 2018
Elena Shih, Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies and Director of the Human Trafficking research cluster through the Center for the Study of Slavery and...
Professor Magaziner with U.S. and South African teachers at the National Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg
August 20, 2018
In July, thanks to generous funding from the Robina Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) conducted the first of...
Penn State professor Lori Ginzberg and Yale University professor David Blight listen during a Faith & Politics panel in Geneva, N.Y., on July 21. (Chantale Wong/Faith & Politics Institute)
July 27, 2018
GLC Director, David Blight featured in Jonathan Capehart’s “That moral arc doesn’t bend toward justice all by itself” in the Washington Post. Read the full article here
July 27, 2018
Drawing on previously untapped sources, Young Frederick Douglassrecreates with fidelity and in convincing detail the background and early life of the man who was to become “...