Clementa Pinckney, a Martyr of Reconciliation
The preacher who tried to heal the wounds of Charleston fell victim to neo-Confederate ideology in the city where the Civil War...
David Blight talked about the legacies of Appomattox during keynote remarks at a 150th anniversary commemoration of Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at...
On Monday, December 8, Greg Grandin sat down with GLC Director David Blight to discuss his recent book The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New...
New Haven, Conn. — Christopher Hager, Associate Professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, has been selected as the winner of the 2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize...
Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center and the Instructional Technology Group, the Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal is designed to help researchers and students find primary...
A Yale faculty member who is a leading scholar on slavery and abolition and two Yale alumni — an award-winning radio host and a renowned architect — have been honored by the...
NEW HAVEN >> Mass incarceration has become the elephant in the room of modern American history, a panel of historians said Tuesday at Yale University.
It has...
