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Yale announces 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize finalists

Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the 20th annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most...

Nadira, one of our team members, conducts an English reading test with a CHP candidate in Buyengo. All CHPs must be able to read and interpret English, and finding out their reading ability is a key part of the interview day, which also includes an exam.

Working at the intersection of health and business in Uganda

Liana Wang, Yale College Class of 2020, is currently in Uganda working with Living Goods as part of the Market Solutions for Inclusive Societies class she is taking with Professor Bo Hopkins (see...

John Darnell, professor of Egyptology at Yale, along with a team of researchers, uncovered a “lost oasis” in the eastern Egyptian desert. One image dates back to about 3,300 B.C.E. and includes large depictions of animals, including an addax, or antelope. “The large addax in particular deserves to be added to the artistic achievements of early Egypt,” says Darnell.

Ancient Egyptian graffiti, burial sites discovered by Yale archaeologists

A team of archaeologists — led by Yale Egyptologist John Darnell — has uncovered a “lost oasis” of archaeological activity in the eastern Egyptian desert of Elkab. The researchers from the Elkab...

Jared Naimark, a Yale School of the Environment graduate student, in Myanmar.

Student research: The politics of conservation technologies in Myanmar

In the office of an international conservation organization in Myanmar, the passionate staff are eager to show me a video from one of their camera traps. I watch in awe as a huge, grey, wrinkly...

British Prime Minister Theresa May speaking in support of the government’s proposed partnership in the House of Commons yesterday.

With time running out for agreement with EU, UK calls for “softer” Brexit

Two years have passed since British voters decided—by a 52-48 margin—to leave the EU. More than 15 months have passed since the UK informed the EU of its intention to leave. More than a year has...

Bo Hopkins ’86 M.B.A. and his wife, Ranji Nagaswami ’86 M.B.A.

Five exemplary alumni recognized with the Yale Medal for service to Yale

The Yale Medal is the highest honor presented by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA), awarded annually to members of the Yale family for their individual service to the university. This year’s...

GLC Director David W. Blight and college instructors visit New Haven’s Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument at the summit of East Rock Park. Dedicated in June, 1887, the monument honors the New Haven residents who died while serving in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, and the Civil War.

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

Teachers’ Seminar: The Civil War and Modern American Memory From June 10-24, 2018, the Gilder Lehrman Center hosted 25 college professors from 16 states for a weeklong seminar taught by GLC Director...

Market solutions for inclusive societies in Africa

Harnessing the power of markets in the fight against poverty has been an area of much study and experimentation over the past 40 years. Increasingly, business innovators are using market-based...

In memoriam: Dr. Dori Laub, co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive and Yale’s genocide studies program

Dr. Dori Laub, one of the founders of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, died on June 23 in Woodbridge, Connecticut. Laub and Laurel Vlock, a New Haven television producer, began...

Agnete Wisti Lassen, Associate Curator of the Yale Babylonian Collection

What did ancient Babylonians eat? A Yale-Harvard team tested their recipes

Even ancient Babylonian chefs knew the value of a good cookbook. Not unlike today’s chefs, the ancient Babylonians favored recipes of stews filled with savory meats, herbaceous herbs, and earthy...

The text, written in Sumerian, outlines the monthly rations that female weavers employed by the state received from the local administration in Irisagrig, where such rations tended to be unusually generous. Puzur-Iškur is known from other Irisagrig texts as having been an “overseer of the weavers.” The month name Nig-Enlila was only used in Irisagrig and some nearby settlements, which confirms that the text has to come from this area.

Yale Assyriologist discovers evidence of lost city in Iraq

When Eckart Frahm, professor of Assyriology and a core faculty member of the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center, received a call from Homeland Security with a request to come to...

GLC Director of Education Tom Thurston (in lower right corner) with Jim Clifford, a history teacher at Amity High School in Woodbridge, and Jake Baller, a social science and civics teacher at Amistad High School in New Haven, with students from Amity and Amistad high schools.

Exploring justice

The Gilder Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center is hosting its fourth “Exploring Justice” program for high school students from New Haven...

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