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Inside the Vault, July 29 and August 12: Immigration and Civil Rights
Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection is an online program that highlights unique primary sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. From iconic historical treasures, such as the Declaration of Independence,...
"Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank"
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in humanity. This is the story of their parallel journeys to find...
Professional Development | How Did We Get Here? PD Series
Our How Did We Get Here? professional development series has been designed to provide teachers with ready-made, classroom-friendly resources on topics in American history that are front-and-center in current events. The programs, held...
Inside the Vault: Chinese Exclusion Act
In 1882, the US government passed legislation that prohibited Chinese immigration for ten years and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for naturalization. It was the first act in American history to place broad restrictions on...
Announcing the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
NEW HAVEN, CT, August 2, 2021 — Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-third annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most...
Announcing the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today announced the finalists for the twenty-third annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize , one of the most coveted awards for the study of the...
Study Capitalism in American History with David Sicilia, Associate Professor of History at University of Maryland
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Pace University are pleased to announce that registration for Fall 2021 courses is now open for the Pace–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History . We highlight here one of the five...
Amanda Geduld
Amanda Geduld received her BA in English Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies from Dartmouth College. She went on to study English education at Boston University where she received her M.Ed. She currently teaches 11th and 12th...
Amanda Bellows
Dr. Amanda Bellows is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States. She teaches at The New School in New York City. Her first book, American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination , was published by...
Dev Chodry
Dev Chodry has been managing distressed assets for Scoggin Capital Management since 2001 and co-founded Old Bellows Partners LP in January 2007. Before joining Scoggin, he was a senior distressed analyst with ING Barings and a...
Andrew Fentress
Andrew Fentress is a managing partner at ACRES where he leads the capital markets efforts for the investment manager and serves on the management and investment committees. Andrew also serves as the chairman of the board of Acres...
Elisabeth Gray
Education activist Elisabeth Gray is a graduate of Oxford University. She is the founder and director of the education firm Oxford Tutors and works with Project Socrates, a new nonprofit think tank dedicated to bridging the current...
Lesley Herrmann
Lesley S. Herrmann was the first executive director of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, where she served for twenty-two years. She holds a PhD in Slavic languages and literature from Columbia University and started...
Alan Jones
Alan Jones is a senior managing director and a member of the management committee at Intermediate Capital Group (ICG), a global alternative asset management firm. Prior to joining ICG, he served as a managing director and vice...
Christine Kang
Christine Kang was the COO of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History until 2019. She has also served as the head of a private preschool, founding director of operations for a public charter school, and a director at the...
Alvin Patrick
Alvin Patrick has worked as a news, sports, and entertainment executive and producer for thirty-two years and is currently executive producer of the CBS News Race & Culture Unit. Patrick has received six Emmy Award nominations,...
Abigail Seldin
Abigail Seldin is the CEO of the Seldin/Haring-Smith Foundation, which funds and incubates public interest projects. She is the producer of SwiftStudent, a free college financial-aid tool, and the New College Majority Photo Series...
Sheila M. Stone
Sheila M. Stone was an international figure skating champion in the 1950s, wrote for Sports Illustrated , designed practice uniforms for the 1956 Olympic team, and was one of the first active sportswear designers. After retiring to...
Peter Tirschwell
Peter Tirschwell is vice president in the maritime & trade business of IHS Markit, a data, analytics, and business intelligence organization serving sectors including maritime, energy, automotive, and financial services. In his...
Charles Sahm
Charles Sahm is the director of development for The Writing Revolution, a nonprofit organization that helps teachers deliver more effective writing instruction. Previously, he served as director of education policy at the Manhattan...
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