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… Professor of History, Temple University Moderator: David Blight, Director of Gilder Lehrman Center These three … to late 20th and 21st Century mass incarceration. lecture David Spatz 203-432-3339 gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu …

… Slavery and its legacies: The abolitionist movement … Slavery and its legacies: The abolitionist movement Manisha Sinha, the Draper Chair in American History … joins Thomas Thurston to discuss the abolitionist movement. Professor Sinha’s book The Slave’s Cause was the …

… Angela Alonso on The Brazilian Abolitionist Movement … Angela Alonso on The Brazilian Abolitionist Movement May 22, 2017 In this episode Angela Alonso, from the … for the abolition of slavery was the first national social movement and that its success relied on the building of …

… Student Spotlight: Exploring the Rights of Nature in Ecuador … Student Spotlight: Exploring … inspired by the “Rights of Nature,” a legal and cultural movement where Nature is given legal standing in court. … so to say.      Although the Rights of Nature has its modern legal roots in the US in the seventies, it was Ecuador …

… dinner in Brussels last Wednesday, and another phone call on Sunday, the EU and the UK appear to have made some … Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, and Lord David Frost, the UK’s chief negotiator, issued a joint … and Frost resumed the negotiation in Brussels the next day and it went on until midnight and continued all day last …

… The Day We Celebrate (Cartoon) … The Day We Celebrate (Cartoon) Thomas Nast Citation Information: Nast, Thomas, “The Day We Celebrate” (Cartoon), Harper’s Weekly, New York: April …

… for Nonfiction. Professor Kendi discussed the book with David W. Blight, Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study … justify the idea that Black people “were not yet ready for civil rights.” In other words, highlighting discrepancies …

… “Genres of Civil War Memory in Literature after Brown v. Board of … of Civil War memory in literature written during the civil rights movement has received less attention. After … of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. lecture David Spatz 203-432-3339 gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu 230 …

… he went on to write 14 books that spanned the entirety of modern Chinese history, among them “The Search for Modern China” (1990). His gift was to blend scrupulous … in Chinese, Japanese, history, and East Asian studies on day one; junior majors in the same on day two; and everyone …

… of upturned faces,” reanimated him with the hope that the day was not far distant when there would not be a slave in … that he began to hope darkness would take the place of day; but the dreaded morning light was coming, and when the … speaker then went on to describe a visit he had made the day before to the birth-place of England’s greatest poet. …

… Douglass … How the Right Co-Opts Frederick Douglass David W. Blight, a professor of history at Yale and chair of the  …

… The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Fate of the Union … The … slavery, but left the fight for more—for securing the rights of African Americans in the free nation—tragically … talk discusses the transatlantic immediate abolitionist movement and its critical role in shaping this outcome. In …