 | | The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, a part of the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, is dedicated to the investigation and dissemination of knowledge concerning all aspects of chattel slavery and its destruction. To learn more about the Center's programs, subscribe to our newsletter. Visit our Photo Gallery of past events. |
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What's New at the Gilder Lehrman Center
- The Gilder Lehrman Center is accepting nominations for the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, a $25,000 award for the most outstanding nonfiction book published in 2008 in English on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements. Publishers and authors are invited to submit books that meet these criteria.
- David Blight talks about his newest book, A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation on The MacMillan Report, an online interview show featuring the research faculty in international and area studies.
- The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition is accepting applications for the Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Fellowship Program for the academic year 2009-2010.
- Stephanie E. Smallwood, Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle, has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Smallwood won for her book, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Harvard University Press). [Press Release]
- The Gilder Lehrman Center is part of the Connecticut Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, a state-wide, 14-member commission established by Governor Jodi Rell to plan and organize events for the two-year celebration surrounding the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. For a listing of events in the state of Connecticut visit www.yale.edu/glc/lincoln/index.htm.
- David Blight was honored with the Connecticut Center for the Book’s 2008 Connecticut Book Award in Nonfiction for his book A Slave No More. The prize was awarded on Sunday, September 21 at a ceremony in the atrium of the Hartford Public Library. This Seventh Annual award recognized the rich history and present vibrancy of literature in Connecticut by honoring authors, illustrators, and book designers who have ties to the state. Other finalists for the nonfiction category included The Children in Room E, by Susan Eaton and Kitchen Literacy by Ann Vileisis. More information about the Connecticut Center for the Book and the Connecticut Book Awards can be found at http://www.hartfordpl.lib.ct.us/cfb/cba2008PR_finalists.htm.
- 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://cmi2.yale.edu/citizens_all/.
- 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.
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