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...
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...
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Newsletter for November 16, 2015
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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...
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-...
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...
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Newsletter for October 19, 2015
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