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	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.
What's New at the Gilder Lehrman Center Connecticut National History Day The Gilder Lehrman Center sponsors the New Haven regional competition for National History Day. For more information visit http://www.yale.edu/glc/nhd/. Slavery by Another Name (Video Lecture) Book Talk and Discussion with the Author, Douglas Blackmon (January 20, 2010). Videotaped by Gilder Lehrman Center friend Tom Ficklin. Visit the Ficklin Media Group blog. 2010 Graduate Research Fellowships The Gilder Lehrman Center invites Yale University graduate students to submit applications for the Summer 2010 Graduate Research Fellowships competition. Please click here for more information. 2010-2011 Postdoctoral Fellowships The Gilder Lehrman Center is pleased to announce its Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Postdoctoral Fellowships for the 2010-2011 Academic Year. Please click here for more information. Frederick Douglass Book Prize Competition The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition announces the twelfth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, a $25,000 award for the most outstanding nonfiction book published in English in 2009 on the subject of slavery and/or abolition and antislavery movements. Publishers and authors are invited to submit books that meet these criteria. We are interested in all geographical areas and time periods. Please note, however, that works related to the Civil War are acceptable only if their primary focus relates to slavery or emancipation. The submission deadline is April 2, 2010. For information on submitting books please e-mail us at gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu. Please visit http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/dpnotice.htm for information on previous Douglass Prize winners. 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner Announced Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law at New York Law School, Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark, and Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard University, has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Gordon-Reed won for her book, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (W.W. Norton and Company). [Press Release] The Civil War Sesquicentennial: The goal should be an enlightening commemoration David Blight comments on the coming commemoration of the Civil War in the June 5, 2009 edition of the Chronicle of Higher Education [ more... ] The Connecticut Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission 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. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness The Gilder Lehrman Center, in partnership with ACES, the New Haven area's Regional Educational Service Center, has been awarded a three- to five-year Teaching American History grant through the Department of Education for New Haven area teachers. For program information and teaching resources, visit the program website. Citizens All: African Americans in Connecticut, 1700-1850 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://www.yale.edu/glc/citizens/index.html.