Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

What’s New at the Gilder Lehrman Center

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Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery Fellowship

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, invites applications for a residential fellowship from scholars and public intellectuals to study the fundamental origins and circumstances surrounding debt bondage, forced labor, human trafficking, and other forms of modern day slavery. (more…)

Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

The Gilder Lehrman Center is accepting applications for their 2015-16 Faculty and Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (more…)

Trinity College Professor Wins the Sixteenth Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Christopher Hager, Associate Professor of English at Trinity College in Hartford, has been selected as the winner of the 2014 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his book Word By Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing … (more…)

White House to honor Yale professor, alumni with National Medals in arts, humanities

David Brion Davis “for reshaping our understanding of history. A World War II veteran, Davis has shed light on the contradiction of a free nation built by forced labor, and his examinations of slavery and abolitionism drive us to keep making moral progress in our time.”(more…)

Prison history is central to American history, Yale panel says

Mass incarceration has become the elephant in the room of modern American history, a panel of historians said Tuesday at Yale University. (Jim Shelton, New Haven Register, Apr 8, 2014) (more…)

Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal

Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Center and the Instructional Technology Group, the Yale Slavery and Abolition Portal is designed to help researchers and students find primary source material related to slavery and its legacies within the university’s many libraries and galleries