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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,...
July 6, 2020
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...
Protesters call for the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue in Richmond, Virginia, in June.Photograph by Eze Amos / Getty
July 1, 2020
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...
June 30, 2020
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...
June 26, 2020
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...
June 22, 2020
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,...
June 19, 2020
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...