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April 24, 2017
In this 2 part episode we join James Scott as he presents some of the main arguments in his upcoming book Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. This...
April 10, 2017
In this episode Garnette Cadogan, editor-at-large for Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, reads his essay “Walking While Black,” originally published in Freeman’s, a...
March 24, 2017
In this episode David Blight talks with James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of York, and they discuss how traces of s;avery are often overlooked in...
March 13, 2017
In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Christienna Fryar, an Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Buffalo State and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, on...
March 13, 2017
The application deadline for the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition postdoctoral and faculty fellowships has been extended. The new...
March 3, 2017
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale invites...
February 27, 2017
In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Isela Gutiérrez, the Associate Research Director for Democracy North Carolina and a speaker on the Gilder Lehrman Center’s “Right...