GLC at Yale

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

Join us online at yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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.

For more info and tickets visit
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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!