Yale Announces 2025 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition has announced the winner of the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize.

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TODAY: Yale-GLC Frederick Douglass Book Talk: Marlene Daut’s "Awakening the Ashes" and Sara E. Johnson’s "Encyclopédie noire"
320 York Street, Rm 276, New Haven
Nov 19 4:30 to 5:30pm
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Tonight at 4pm EST

David Blight talks with fellow academics on how they must fight to preserve our history AND democracy.

With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

David Blight talks with fellow academics on how they must fight to preserve our history AND democracy.

With David W. Blight, Yale University; Geraldo Cadava, Northwestern University; Edward Ayers, University of Richmond; and Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-seventh annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize
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In the wake of Kirk's death, GOP leaders have joined denizens of right-wing social media in using the language of “civil war." Today marks the 163rd anniversary of the largest-scale American mass killing.

If we continue down this path, we could face an Antietam of our own making. trib.al/M8HqDYb

Sep. 17, 1630 | White Man Whipped for Interracial Relations in Colonial Virginia Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

On this day in 1630, the Virginia Assembly sentenced Hugh Davis, a white man, to be whipped for having a relationship with a Black person.

photo of June Jordan, subject of Hanna Sophia Hörl's Sept. 17 talk

GLC@Lunch with Hannah Sophia Hörl
Revisiting June Jordan’s 'Skyrise for Harlem' (1965) and 'His Own Where' (1971) as Cultural Interventions in Poetic Form
September 17 12:00 to 1:15pm
Rosenkranz Hall, Rm 241, 115 Prospect Street, New Haven

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Registration is NOW OPEN for the 2025 ASALH Annual Meeting & Conference!

Celebrate African Americans & Labor with scholars, educators & leaders.
✨ Early Bird pricing ends July 22!
📍 In-person & virtual options available
📚 Author events, tours & more.

Register now at asalh.org/conference/r...!

If not for Chicago, we might not have Labor Day.

Keep your eyes peeled on Monday for a much longer video where I dive into the history of unionization, violent strike suppression, and workers’ victories in Chicago, and how they impacted workers across the country.

Eric Foner’s Personal History Reflecting on his decades-long career, the historian considers what his field of study owes to the public.

The Education of a Historian

In @thenation.com, Eric Foner reflects on his family, his career, and doing history in perilous times

'A beautiful responsibility': Documentary film will encapsulate history of Black Liberation Theology'

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#jamescone #godoftheoppressed #blackfaithmatters

Trump Vs. History: How Trump is trying to change our sense of who we are
Sponsored by The New Republic
September 8, 2025 4:00 PM EDT
David Blight talks with fellow academics on how we fight to preserve our history AND democracy.

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Attend our next GLC@Lunch 🍽️:

“Bound to Feel: Personhood from Slavery to Abolition in Brazil and Cuba” with Isabela Fraga (GLC Visiting Scholar)

💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 5/07/25 | 🕐 12:00-1:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/52rmcmtm

Next up at GLC@Lunch 🍽️:

“Unshackling the Past: Slavery, Marronage, and the Fight for Freedom in Morocco, 18th to 20th Centuries” w/ Chouki El Hamel

💻 Virtual | 🗓️ 4/28/25 | 🕐 2:00-3:15PM
🎟️ Free, but registration is required: tinyurl.com/4p2cv4zm

#GLCAtLunch #SlaveryStudies #MoroccanHistory #Yale

Our next GLC@LUNCH 🍽️ online event with GLC Visiting Scholar, Aaron Hall!

Join us to hear Aaron answer his central question: "How did the creation of the U.S. Constitution become enshrined as 'the Founding'?"

Register on our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...

#constitutionalism

Gabriel’s Odyssey by the Kukutana Ensemble (founded by Janie Cole)

About the performance:
A Musical Narrative of Slavery, Conversion, Persecution, and Resilience from a 16th-Century Indian Ocean World

To register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/southasia/ev...

UPCOMING EVENT:

Virtual International Conference on The Black Indian Ocean: Slavery, Religion, and Expressive Cultures (1400-1700)

April 2nd-3rd, 2025 | Online | Free & open to the public

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED

To register, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...

Join us for our next GLC@Lunch 🍽️ with GLC Visiting Scholar, Ben Davidson!

For more information, and to register, please visit: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/events/2...

Register today to attend our Panel: "Eugenics and Its Afterlives," moderated by Dr. Daniel HoSang (Professor of American Studies at Yale University)!

📅 Friday, Feb. 28th, 11:30 am

ℹ️ For more information, visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...

Attend our 26th Annual GLC Conference: Universities and the Histories of Race, Science, and Medicine

Date: Thurs. 2/27-Sat. 3/1

Cost: FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For more information, please visit our website: macmillan.yale.edu/glc/2025-ann...

We hope to see you there!