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January 4, 2021
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University,...
December 9, 2020
New Haven, Conn.— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition announces the winner of the 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book...
December 8, 2020
Professor Daniel Pinkel has recently made an extraordinarily generous gift to the Gilder Lehrman Center as support for the future of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and...
October 19, 2020
Understanding Yale and its History with Slavery President Peter Salovey has announced a year and a half study of Yale and its history with slavery.  The project will include...
Frederick Douglass
October 2, 2020
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center has announced the finalists for its 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book...
September 8, 2020
The Shared Histories Symposium is designed to share the results of the three-year Gilder Lehrman Center Shared Histories Africa Institute, funded by the Robina Foundation,...
Monuments to America’s true ideals and history, like Alison Saar’s Harriet Tubman Memorial, “Swing Low,” in Harlem, should be built nationwide. Credit HSP Archive
July 17, 2020
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,...