2015/2016

“Equal Protection”: Origins and Legacies of the Fourteenth Amendment

Thursday, March 31, 2016. 5:00 pm

Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School; Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Harvard Law School; Eric Foner, Columbia University; Amy Dru Stanley, University of Chicago; John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School; Moderated by David W. Blight, Gilder Lehrman Center, Yale University

The Challenge of Building a National Museum

Tuesday, December 8, 2015, 4:00 pm

Lonnie G. Bunch III, Founding Director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, D.C.

Charleston and Its Aftermath: History, Symbols, Policy

Monday, September 21, 2015. 4:30 PM

Edward Ball, Yale; Jelani Cobb, University of Connecticut; Glenda Gilmore, Yale; Jonathan Holloway, Yale; Vesla Weaver, Yale; Moderated by David Blight, Yale