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Gilder Lehrman Center Teacher Resources

• Lincoln and the Meaning of Emancipation
  The Gilder Lehrman Center and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, with funding from the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and the Mather Fund are pleased to announce a new teacher education initiative
• Middle Passages: A Shared History of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
  Gilder Lehrman Center Hosts Teachers from Ghana in Summer Institute to Study the Transatlantic Slave Trade New Haven, CT.
• Citizens All: African Americans in Connecticut, 1700-1850
  Follow the African American journey to citizenship and uncover paths that lead to current global issues and hometown stories of yesteryear. Visit the Citizens All website at http://www.yale.edu/glc/citizens/index.html.
• Connecticut National History Day
  The Gilder Lehrman Center sponsors the New Haven regional competition for National History Day. For more information visit http://www.yale.edu/glc/nhd/.
• Slavery and Freedom in American History and Memory
  The Gilder Lehrman Center, in partnership with ACES, the New Haven area’s Regional Educational Service Center, has been awarded a three-year Teaching American History grant through the Department of Education to introduce New Haven area teachers to the history of U.S. slavery and its legacy. For program information and teaching resources, visit the program website.
• Online Features
  The following online features are designed to introduce teachers and students to specific topics and documentary materials related to slavery and abolition.

  • A Canterbury Tale: A Resource Package for Connecticut’s Prudence Crandall Affair

  • Harriet Jacobs: Selected Writings and Correspondence

  • The Gullah: Rice, Slavery, and the Sierra Leone-American Connection

  • Priscilla’s Homecoming

  • Heroic Exile: The Transatlantic Development of Frederick Douglass 1845-1847

  • The Amistad Page

  • Tangled Roots

• Document Library
  A collection contains over 200 individual items, including speeches, letters, cartoons and graphics, interviews, and articles.
• Online Resources
  A select, annotated list of useful online resources for teaching and research.
• PIER Outreach
  The Programs in International Educational Resources (PIER) of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies draw upon Yale University’s extensive resources to develop and implement programs, services, and resources designed to advance understanding of international and world regional issues.