GLC at Yale
@yaleglc.bsky.social
The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition at The MacMillan Center at Yale University.
TODAY: Yale-GLC Frederick Douglass Book Talk: Marlene Daut’s "Awakening the Ashes" and Sara E. Johnson’s "Encyclopédie noire"
320 York Street, Rm 276, New Haven
Nov 19 4:30 to 5:30pm
Register for in person attendence: yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Online: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
320 York Street, Rm 276, New Haven
Nov 19 4:30 to 5:30pm
Register for in person attendence: yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Online: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
November 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
TODAY: Yale-GLC Frederick Douglass Book Talk: Marlene Daut’s "Awakening the Ashes" and Sara E. Johnson’s "Encyclopédie noire"
320 York Street, Rm 276, New Haven
Nov 19 4:30 to 5:30pm
Register for in person attendence: yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Online: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
320 York Street, Rm 276, New Haven
Nov 19 4:30 to 5:30pm
Register for in person attendence: yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Online: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Tonight at 4pm EST
David Blight talks with fellow academics on how they must fight to preserve our history AND democracy.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Trump Versus History II
How Trump is trying to change our sense of who we are.
www.eventbrite.com
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Tonight at 4pm EST
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David Blight talks with fellow academics on how they must fight to preserve our history AND democracy.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Trump Versus History II
How Trump is trying to change our sense of who we are.
www.eventbrite.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
David Blight talks with fellow academics on how they must fight to preserve our history AND democracy.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
David Blight talks with fellow academics on how they must fight to preserve our history AND democracy.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Trump Versus History II
How Trump is trying to change our sense of who we are.
www.eventbrite.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
David Blight talks with fellow academics on how they must fight to preserve our history AND democracy.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
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Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
macmillan.yale.edu
October 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
macmillan.yale.edu/glc/stories/...
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In the wake of Kirk's death, GOP leaders have joined denizens of right-wing social media in using the language of “civil war." Today marks the 163rd anniversary of the largest-scale American mass killing.
If we continue down this path, we could face an Antietam of our own making. trib.al/M8HqDYb
If we continue down this path, we could face an Antietam of our own making. trib.al/M8HqDYb
September 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
In the wake of Kirk's death, GOP leaders have joined denizens of right-wing social media in using the language of “civil war." Today marks the 163rd anniversary of the largest-scale American mass killing.
If we continue down this path, we could face an Antietam of our own making. trib.al/M8HqDYb
If we continue down this path, we could face an Antietam of our own making. trib.al/M8HqDYb
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On this day in 1630, the Virginia Assembly sentenced Hugh Davis, a white man, to be whipped for having a relationship with a Black person.
Sep. 17, 1630 | White Man Whipped for Interracial Relations in Colonial Virginia
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
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September 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
On this day in 1630, the Virginia Assembly sentenced Hugh Davis, a white man, to be whipped for having a relationship with a Black person.
GLC@Lunch with Hannah Sophia Hörl
Revisiting June Jordan’s 'Skyrise for Harlem' (1965) and 'His Own Where' (1971) as Cultural Interventions in Poetic Form
September 17 12:00 to 1:15pm
Rosenkranz Hall, Rm 241, 115 Prospect Street, New Haven
Join us online at yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Revisiting June Jordan’s 'Skyrise for Harlem' (1965) and 'His Own Where' (1971) as Cultural Interventions in Poetic Form
September 17 12:00 to 1:15pm
Rosenkranz Hall, Rm 241, 115 Prospect Street, New Haven
Join us online at yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
September 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
GLC@Lunch with Hannah Sophia Hörl
Revisiting June Jordan’s 'Skyrise for Harlem' (1965) and 'His Own Where' (1971) as Cultural Interventions in Poetic Form
September 17 12:00 to 1:15pm
Rosenkranz Hall, Rm 241, 115 Prospect Street, New Haven
Join us online at yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Revisiting June Jordan’s 'Skyrise for Harlem' (1965) and 'His Own Where' (1971) as Cultural Interventions in Poetic Form
September 17 12:00 to 1:15pm
Rosenkranz Hall, Rm 241, 115 Prospect Street, New Haven
Join us online at yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2025 ASALH Annual Meeting & Conference!
Celebrate African Americans & Labor with scholars, educators & leaders.
✨ Early Bird pricing ends July 22!
📍 In-person & virtual options available
📚 Author events, tours & more.
Register now at asalh.org/conference/r...!
Celebrate African Americans & Labor with scholars, educators & leaders.
✨ Early Bird pricing ends July 22!
📍 In-person & virtual options available
📚 Author events, tours & more.
Register now at asalh.org/conference/r...!
June 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2025 ASALH Annual Meeting & Conference!
Celebrate African Americans & Labor with scholars, educators & leaders.
✨ Early Bird pricing ends July 22!
📍 In-person & virtual options available
📚 Author events, tours & more.
Register now at asalh.org/conference/r...!
Celebrate African Americans & Labor with scholars, educators & leaders.
✨ Early Bird pricing ends July 22!
📍 In-person & virtual options available
📚 Author events, tours & more.
Register now at asalh.org/conference/r...!
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If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day.
Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.
Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.
August 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day.
Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.
Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.
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The Education of a Historian
In @thenation.com, Eric Foner reflects on his family, his career, and doing history in perilous times
In @thenation.com, Eric Foner reflects on his family, his career, and doing history in perilous times
Eric Foner’s Personal History
Reflecting on his decades-long career, the historian considers what his field of study owes to the public.
www.thenation.com
August 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The Education of a Historian
In @thenation.com, Eric Foner reflects on his family, his career, and doing history in perilous times
In @thenation.com, Eric Foner reflects on his family, his career, and doing history in perilous times
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'A beautiful responsibility': Documentary film will encapsulate history of Black Liberation Theology'
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#jamescone #godoftheoppressed #blackfaithmatters
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#jamescone #godoftheoppressed #blackfaithmatters
'A beautiful responsibility': Documentary film will encapsulate history of Black Liberation Theology
“It’s a journey of discovery,” says multiple Emmy-winning filmmaker and educator Dante James of his current project, a feature-length documentary on Black liberation theology. “Getting out into unchar...
pcusa.org
August 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
'A beautiful responsibility': Documentary film will encapsulate history of Black Liberation Theology'
pcusa.org/news-storyte...
#jamescone #godoftheoppressed #blackfaithmatters
pcusa.org/news-storyte...
#jamescone #godoftheoppressed #blackfaithmatters
Trump Vs. History: How Trump is trying to change our sense of who we are
Sponsored by The New Republic
September 8, 2025 4:00 PM EDT
David Blight talks with fellow academics on how we fight to preserve our history AND democracy.
For more info and tickets visit
www.eventbrite.com/e/trump-vs-h...
Sponsored by The New Republic
September 8, 2025 4:00 PM EDT
David Blight talks with fellow academics on how we fight to preserve our history AND democracy.
For more info and tickets visit
www.eventbrite.com/e/trump-vs-h...
August 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Trump Vs. History: How Trump is trying to change our sense of who we are
Sponsored by The New Republic
September 8, 2025 4:00 PM EDT
David Blight talks with fellow academics on how we fight to preserve our history AND democracy.
For more info and tickets visit
www.eventbrite.com/e/trump-vs-h...
Sponsored by The New Republic
September 8, 2025 4:00 PM EDT
David Blight talks with fellow academics on how we fight to preserve our history AND democracy.
For more info and tickets visit
www.eventbrite.com/e/trump-vs-h...
Attend our next GLC@Lunch 🍽️:
“Bound to Feel: Personhood from Slavery to Abolition in Brazil and Cuba” with Isabela Fraga (GLC Visiting Scholar)
💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 5/07/25 | 🕐 12:00-1:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/52rmcmtm
“Bound to Feel: Personhood from Slavery to Abolition in Brazil and Cuba” with Isabela Fraga (GLC Visiting Scholar)
💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 5/07/25 | 🕐 12:00-1:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/52rmcmtm
May 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Attend our next GLC@Lunch 🍽️:
“Bound to Feel: Personhood from Slavery to Abolition in Brazil and Cuba” with Isabela Fraga (GLC Visiting Scholar)
💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 5/07/25 | 🕐 12:00-1:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/52rmcmtm
“Bound to Feel: Personhood from Slavery to Abolition in Brazil and Cuba” with Isabela Fraga (GLC Visiting Scholar)
💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 5/07/25 | 🕐 12:00-1:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/52rmcmtm
Next up at GLC@Lunch 🍽️:
“Unshackling the Past: Slavery, Marronage, and the Fight for Freedom in Morocco, 18th to 20th Centuries” w/ Chouki El Hamel
💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 4/28/25 | 🕐 2:00-3:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/4p2cv4zm
#GLCAtLunch #SlaveryStudies #MoroccanHistory #Yale
“Unshackling the Past: Slavery, Marronage, and the Fight for Freedom in Morocco, 18th to 20th Centuries” w/ Chouki El Hamel
💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 4/28/25 | 🕐 2:00-3:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/4p2cv4zm
#GLCAtLunch #SlaveryStudies #MoroccanHistory #Yale
April 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Next up at GLC@Lunch 🍽️:
“Unshackling the Past: Slavery, Marronage, and the Fight for Freedom in Morocco, 18th to 20th Centuries” w/ Chouki El Hamel
💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 4/28/25 | 🕐 2:00-3:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/4p2cv4zm
#GLCAtLunch #SlaveryStudies #MoroccanHistory #Yale
“Unshackling the Past: Slavery, Marronage, and the Fight for Freedom in Morocco, 18th to 20th Centuries” w/ Chouki El Hamel
💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 4/28/25 | 🕐 2:00-3:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/4p2cv4zm
#GLCAtLunch #SlaveryStudies #MoroccanHistory #Yale
Our next GLC@LUNCH 🍽️ online event with GLC Visiting Scholar, Aaron Hall!
Join us to hear Aaron answer his central question: "How did the creation of the U.S. Constitution become enshrined as 'the Founding'?"
Register on our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
#constitutionalism
Join us to hear Aaron answer his central question: "How did the creation of the U.S. Constitution become enshrined as 'the Founding'?"
Register on our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
#constitutionalism
April 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Our next GLC@LUNCH 🍽️ online event with GLC Visiting Scholar, Aaron Hall!
Join us to hear Aaron answer his central question: "How did the creation of the U.S. Constitution become enshrined as 'the Founding'?"
Register on our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
#constitutionalism
Join us to hear Aaron answer his central question: "How did the creation of the U.S. Constitution become enshrined as 'the Founding'?"
Register on our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
#constitutionalism
Gabriel’s Odyssey by the Kukutana Ensemble (founded by Janie Cole)
About the performance:
A Musical Narrative of Slavery, Conversion, Persecution, and Resilience from a 16th-Century Indian Ocean World
To register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/ev...
About the performance:
A Musical Narrative of Slavery, Conversion, Persecution, and Resilience from a 16th-Century Indian Ocean World
To register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/ev...
March 27, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Gabriel’s Odyssey by the Kukutana Ensemble (founded by Janie Cole)
About the performance:
A Musical Narrative of Slavery, Conversion, Persecution, and Resilience from a 16th-Century Indian Ocean World
To register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/ev...
About the performance:
A Musical Narrative of Slavery, Conversion, Persecution, and Resilience from a 16th-Century Indian Ocean World
To register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/ev...
UPCOMING EVENT:
Virtual International Conference on The Black Indian Ocean: Slavery, Religion, and Expressive Cultures (1400-1700)
April 2nd-3rd, 2025 | Online | Free & open to the public
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
To register, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
Virtual International Conference on The Black Indian Ocean: Slavery, Religion, and Expressive Cultures (1400-1700)
April 2nd-3rd, 2025 | Online | Free & open to the public
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
To register, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
March 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
UPCOMING EVENT:
Virtual International Conference on The Black Indian Ocean: Slavery, Religion, and Expressive Cultures (1400-1700)
April 2nd-3rd, 2025 | Online | Free & open to the public
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
To register, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
Virtual International Conference on The Black Indian Ocean: Slavery, Religion, and Expressive Cultures (1400-1700)
April 2nd-3rd, 2025 | Online | Free & open to the public
REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED
To register, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
Join us for our next GLC@Lunch 🍽️ with GLC Visiting Scholar, Ben Davidson!
For more information, and to register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
For more information, and to register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
March 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Join us for our next GLC@Lunch 🍽️ with GLC Visiting Scholar, Ben Davidson!
For more information, and to register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
For more information, and to register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...
Register today to attend our Panel: "Eugenics and Its Afterlives," moderated by Dr. Daniel HoSang (Professor of American Studies at Yale University)!
📅 Friday, Feb. 28th, 11:30 am
ℹ️ For more information, visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
📅 Friday, Feb. 28th, 11:30 am
ℹ️ For more information, visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
February 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Register today to attend our Panel: "Eugenics and Its Afterlives," moderated by Dr. Daniel HoSang (Professor of American Studies at Yale University)!
📅 Friday, Feb. 28th, 11:30 am
ℹ️ For more information, visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
📅 Friday, Feb. 28th, 11:30 am
ℹ️ For more information, visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
Attend our 26th Annual GLC Conference: Universities and the Histories of Race, Science, and Medicine
Date: Thurs. 2/27-Sat. 3/1
Cost: FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
We hope to see you there!
Date: Thurs. 2/27-Sat. 3/1
Cost: FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
We hope to see you there!
February 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Attend our 26th Annual GLC Conference: Universities and the Histories of Race, Science, and Medicine
Date: Thurs. 2/27-Sat. 3/1
Cost: FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
We hope to see you there!
Date: Thurs. 2/27-Sat. 3/1
Cost: FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
For more information, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...
We hope to see you there!