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May 7, 2018
For a century and a half Ulysses S. Grant has been a baffling and inspiring presence in the American literary and historical imaginations. Born in 1822 and raised by a pious...
April 10, 2018
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, part of the MacMillan Center at Yale University, is pleased...
February 22, 2018
MacMillan Report Guest: Sasha Turner, Visiting Fellow, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Episode: Wednesday, February 21, 2018...
February 22, 2018
Now open for registration: Free Massive Open Online Course Forced and Precarious Labor in the Global Economy: Slavery by Another Name? A collaboration between the...
November 30, 2017
Join the Yale Film Studies Center for a 20th anniversary screening of Steven Spielberg’s AMISTAD, based on events that took place in New Haven, with an introduction by...
November 16, 2017
Erik Mathisen on American Diplomacy during the era of Reconstruction Erik Mathisen joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss American...
October 23, 2017
Jonathan Schroeder on Mapping North American Slave Narratives Jonathan Schroeder, a recent Postdoctoral Associate at Yale’s Digital Humanities Lab, discusses his post-...