This article appeared in the New York Times. Written by David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of History and Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery,...
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University is pleased to announce that they are the recipients...
In November, 1989, when the Berlin Wall suddenly began to crumble and then fall, much of the world watched in awe. Could it be true that Communism was about to collapse? For...
Formerly U.S. Ambassador to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Luis C.deBaca is Senior Fellow at Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of...
The Freedmen’s Memorial in Washington is not a Confederate monument. It famously exhibits a standing Abraham Lincoln seemingly giving freedom to a kneeling black man naked...
African American cultural memory of slavery, emancipation and the Civil War reached an important apex on January 1, 1913, when James Weldon Johnson, musical lyricist,...
New-York Historical Society Program date: June 11, 2020
What did the nation look like in the years following the end of the Civil War and the emancipation of African...
