… this past weekend, former Human Rights Watch researcher David Scott Mathieson describes the regime’s rebuttals as “ a … in Myanmar is not different from the lesson of the people of Darfur in Sudan, or of the various opponents of the … to turn the blueprint into a functioning ethic. Written by David Simon, Director, Genocide Studies Program at the …
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… in Restoration London” (University of London Press); and David Silkenat for “Scars on the Land: An Environmental … their return. “Freedom Seekers” is a powerful testimony to people’s desire for liberty and control over their lives. … sometimes miserable existence, and how in turn enslaved people shaped the environment they lived in. It is a stunning …
… just complicit in the systemic violence against enslaved people. The wealth and status of slaveholding women rested … of law and custom. Told from the perspective of enslaved people themselves, the book shatters any remaining sense that … winners are Ira Berlin and Philip D. Morgan in 1999; David Eltis, 2000; David Blight, 2001; Robert Harms and John …
… study of the development of modern Iran. Catherine Panter-Brick, professor of anthropology, health, and global affairs, … artifacts from the ancient city of Dura-Europos to allow people to explore an important archeological and cultural … access to HIV/AIDS testing and care in Lebanon. “The people trained there take up leadership roles throughout the …
… mezzanine with very low ceilings, which was where enslaved people lived. Lastly, on the second floor –with very tall … be right in the middle, and the serfdom, the enslaved people would be at the very back. In this way, we can observe …
… persecution, and other mass atrocity crimes.” David Simon, director of the Genocide Studies Program added … — and prompt concerted action to support the Yazidi people and end their persecution.” As the fifth anniversary … claiming to adhere to ISIS’s ideology continue to threaten people in the region. Local communities that collaborated …
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Frederick P. Rose Professor of History and Professor of Religious Studies
… in Cultures of the Jews: A New History , edited by David Biale (Schocken Books, 2002). He has also edited the … by Yale University Press. http://history.yale.edu/people/ivan-marcus ivan.marcus@yale.edu History Frederick P. …
… of Francisco Franco and the presence on the right of the People’s Party, a successor to the Alianza Popular founded … right-wing populist party founded by former members of the People’s Party in 2013 that received only 0.5 percent of the … marketplace to a new brand of xenophobic populism. David R. Cameron is a professor of political science and …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… that granted citizenship to all U.S.-born persons. 1. David Blight: Origins and Legacies of the Fourteenth Amendment David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History at … of the burdens state power placed on newly emancipated people. Through the Fourteenth Amendment, this revolutionary …
… the International Labour Organization, nearly 21 million people worldwide are victims of contemporary slavery: women … and Lewis Lehrman ’60, the Gilder Lehrman Center is led by David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History. … Center is a preeminent institution, and I am thankful that David Blight is leveraging its reputation to deepen …
… a stronghold for the radical Boko Haram movement. “What people call Christian-Muslim conflict, there’s nothing … the country’s potentially vast resources, what people often perceive as religious and ethnic conflict would … … you might not be happy, but you don’t break up! So when people talk about the possibilities of Nigeria, I look at it …
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
… Address … 2000 Keynote Address Conference on Arming Slaves David Brion Davis As Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center … in medieval Muslim lands. Although Arabs were the first people to enslave and transport over long distances millions … and developed the Western Hemisphere. I refer to a people who in 1492, with the capture of Grenada, had just …