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Race, Place, and Expertise: Working in the St. Vincent Botanic Garden 1765-1822

Thomas Thurston talks with J’Nese Williams about her project “Race, Place, and Expertise: Working in the St. Vincent Botanic Garden, 1765-1822” as part of Slavery and Its Legacies, a podcast by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center...

James Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at the MacMillan Center

SSRC 2020 Albert O. Hirschman Prize ceremony and lecture featuring James Scott

James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political Science, professor of anthropology, and codirector of the Agrarian Studies Program at the MacMillan Center, is the recipient of the 2020 Albert O. Hirschman Prize, the Social Science Research Council’s highest honor.

The biennial Hirschman...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte speaking with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at yesterday’s European Council meeting.

After EU leaders endorse declaration on rule of law, Poland & Hungary drop budget veto

In July, the leaders of the 27 member states of the European Union, meeting as the European Council, approved a €750 billion recovery plan, labeled Next Generation EU, and the Commission’s proposed €1.074 trillion Multiannual Fiscal Framework, the EU’s seven-year budget for 2021-27. The recovery...

(Illustration by Michael S. Helfenbein)

Yale puts its might behind solutions for a planet in need

Yale University has launched a campus-wide initiative that will unite institutional leadership and academic experts across the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, professional schools, and the humanities in an intensive effort to tackle the environmental challenges threatening life...

2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize winner announced

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has named Sophie White as the 2020 winner of its 22nd annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize for “Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana” (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and...

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