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December 9, 2015
At a ceremony at the Capitol, President Obama spoke marking the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which formally ended slavery...
November 17, 2015
The GLC is happy to announce its 2016-2017 fellowship program. The Center supports two types of the fellowships that advance the study of slavery, its role in the creation of...
November 16, 2015
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Yale University, New Haven, CT Newsletter for November 16, 2015 Hi Everyone, See below this week’s...
November 5, 2015
NYU Professor Wins the Seventeenth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize   New Haven, Conn. — Ada Ferrer, Professor of History and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New...
October 26, 2015
Opera singer Andrea Baker explores the impact of Frederick Douglass and the time he spent in Scotland, the country which she’s made her home. As the great-...
October 21, 2015
A century and a half after the Civil War, the process of Reconstruction remains contested—and incomplete. David W. Blight GLC Director The Atlantic The Reconstruction era was...
October 19, 2015
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Yale University, New Haven, CT Newsletter for October 19, 2015 Hi Everyone, See below this week’s...