January 24, 2022
Thomas Thurston talks with Amanda Kleintop on her project titled: “The Balance of Freedom: Abolishing Property Rights in Slaves during and after the US Civil War”
Dr....
August 15, 2021
Thomas Thurston talks with Holly Lynton on Faith, Nature, and the Legacies of South Carolina Methodist Camp Meetings.
Holly Lynton was born in Boulder, Colorado and was...
July 26, 2021
Thomas Thurston talks with Ambassador Luis C.deBaca (ret.) on the 13th Amendment and the History of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Ambassador (ret.) Luis C.deBaca...
January 25, 2021
Thomas Thurston talks with Stephanie Redden on her project “Hello from the Inside: Race, Gender, and Unfree Labor with the Transnationally-Situated Prison Call Centre...
January 11, 2021
Thomas Thurston talks with Lena Gotteswinter on her project “Black hipster culture in music and fashion and the potential of political activism”.
Lena Gotteswinter is a...
December 7, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with J’Nese Williams on her project “Race, Place, and Expertise: Working in the St. Vincent Botanic Garden, 1765-1822”.
J’Nese Williams is a...
September 9, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Rachel Stephens on her project “Hidden in Plain Sight: Slavery and Suppression in Antebellum American Art”.
Rachel Stephens is Assistant...
August 24, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Westenley Alcenat on his book project “Children of Africa, Shall be Haytians: Prince Saunders, Revolutionary Transnationalism & the Origins of...
August 11, 2020
GLC Director, David W. Blight talks with Alondra Nelson on DNA, Race, and Reparations.
Alondra Nelson is president of the Social Science Research Council and the Harold F....
July 27, 2020
GLC Director, David W. Blight talks with James Oakes on the Legacies of Abolition.
James Oakes, one of the leading historians of nineteenth-century America, has an...
July 13, 2020
GLC Director, David W. Blight talks with Elizabeth Hinton on Race, Policing, and Mass Incarceration in times of the COVID 19 global pandemic.
Elizabeth Hinton is...
June 29, 2020
GLC Director, David W. Blight talks with Carol Anderson on Race, Voting, and Democracy in times of COVID 19 global pandemic.
Carol Anderson is Charles Howard Candler...
June 15, 2020
GLC Director, David W. Blight talks with Carolyn Roberts and Sascha James-Conterelli on Race, Health, and Medicine during the COVID 19 global pandemic.
Carolyn Roberts...
June 1, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Hilary Jones on her project titled “From Senegambia to the French Caribbean: Studying West Africa in the French Atlantic World”.
Dr. Hilary...
May 11, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Ellen Gruber Garvey on her project titled “Ghost Stories of the Transatlantic Slave Trade”
Ellen Gruber Garvey is the author of Writing with...
May 4, 2020
GLC Director David W. Blight talks with Assistant Professor Carolyn Roberts on Race, Health, and Medicine during the COVID 19 global pandemic.
Carolyn Roberts is an...
April 27, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Gretchen Head about her project, “Ni Esclave, Ni Nègre: Arabic’s Contested Borders.”
Assistant Professor Gretchen Head is originally from the...
April 20, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Karin Zipf on her chapter titled “A Climate of Fear” from her upcoming book Field Ghosts: How the American Farmworker Fought Migrant Slavery....
March 2, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Nicholas Crawford on his work titled “Sustaining Slavery: Plantation Provisioning and the Politics of Health in the British Caribbean.”...
February 10, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Isadora Moura Mota on her work titled “Afro-Brazilian Atlantic: Slavery and Anglo-American Abolitionism in the Age of Emancipation”.
Isadora...
January 27, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Nicole Schneider on “Reflecting the past: the Mediation of History in Contemporary Protest Photography.”
Nicole Schneider is a PhD candidate...
January 13, 2020
Thomas Thurston talks with Urvashi Chakravarty on her work titled “Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England.”
Urvashi ...
November 18, 2019
Thomas Thurston talks with Joseph Opala on his work with the Black Seminoles
Joseph Opala is an American historian noted for establishing the “Gullah Connection,” the...
October 28, 2019
Thomas Thurston talks with Henrique Espada Lima on his project “History of a Different Future: The End of Slavery and Slaves’ Expectations of Rights in Brazil”
Henrique...
September 19, 2019
Anita Rupprecht joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her project , “‘Liberated Africans’, Indenture and Resistance in the British...
May 10, 2019
Dr. Amanda Bellows joins Thomas Thurston in the studio to discuss how emancipated serfs and slaves were viewed in Russian and American music, literature, art and popular...
March 29, 2019
Dr. Joe Yannielli joins Thomas Thurston in the studio to talk about the Mendi Mission, established by radical abolitionists in the wake of the Amistad rebellion, which...
March 18, 2019
Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray talks with Thomas Thurston about her work tracing the travels of Frederick Douglass, Henry Box Brown and other African American abolitionists in...
November 19, 2018
Sasha Turner, Associate Professor, History, Quinnipiac University joins Thomas Thurston in the studio to talk about her work on Slavery, Emotions, and Gendered Power....
October 29, 2018
Thomas Thurston is joined in conversation with Jennifer (JJ) Rosenbaum and Gunther Peck as they discuss the connections between labor and human trafficking.
Jennifer (JJ...
October 15, 2018
Thomas Thurston talks with Yale Modern Slavery Working Group members Janie Chuang and Joel Quirk on the impacts of terminology in the anti-trafficking and abolition...
October 1, 2018
Grace Peña Delgado and David Blight join host Thomas Thurston to discuss Borders, Modern Slavery, and the Yale Modern Slavery Working Group.
Grace Peña Delgado is...
September 19, 2018
Elena Shih and Andrew Crane join Thomas Thurston to discuss critiques and observations on contemporary solutions to human trafficking.
Elena Shih is an Assistant...
July 3, 2018
Jen Manion joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her project on the Fugitive Slave Act and the rise of anti cross-dressing laws
Jen...
June 11, 2018
Amelia Hintzen joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her book manuscript, “Sugarcane Citizenship: A History of Migration and...
May 30, 2018
Gunther Peck joins Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss the long history of human trafficking and its relationship to the evolution of racial ideology, humanitarian...
April 30, 2018
La Tanya Autry joins Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss Art and Activism.
La Tanya S. Autry is the inaugural Curator of Art and Civil...
April 2, 2018
Anna Mae Duane and Jean Allain, of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Modern Slavery Working Group at Yale University join Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its...
March 19, 2018
Jessica R. Pliley and Zoe Trodd, of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Modern Slavery Working Group join Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies.
Jessica R...
March 5, 2018
Genevieve LeBaron and Kevin Bales, of the Gilder Lehrman Center’s Modern Slavery Working Group, join Tom Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies. ...
February 19, 2018
Manisha Sinha joins Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss the transnational history of the movement to abolish slavery.
Manisha Sinha is professor and the James L. and...
January 29, 2018
Kerry Sinanan joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss representations of women, motherhood and breastfeeding in paintings depicting...
December 4, 2017
Connor Williams joins Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss the creation of “Voices from the Archive,” an online teaching resource based on documents gathered from the U. B....
November 13, 2017
Erik Mathisen joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss American foreign relations during the Reconstruction era and how a generation of...
October 23, 2017
Jonathan Schroeder, Assistant Professor of English and History at the University of Warwick and a recent Postdoctoral Associate at Yale’s Digital Humanities Lab, discusses...
October 2, 2017
Brad Proctor joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss the Ku Klux Klan and Political Violence during Reconstruction.
Brad Proctor, an...
September 18, 2017
Nicholas Wood joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss his book-in-progress, “Before Garrison: Antislavery & Politics in the New...
September 11, 2017
In this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies Joshua Lynn joins Thomas Thurston to discuss the antebellum Democratic Party’s effort to transform itself into a party dedicated...
August 28, 2017
Samantha Seeley joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss her book-in-progress, “Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain in the Early...
August 14, 2017
Professor Manuel Barcia joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavery and Its Legacies to discuss an episode covered in his current book project: The Pirates, the Judge,...
July 31, 2017
Dr. Tammy Ingram joins Thomas Thurston on this episode of Slavey and Its Legacies. They discuss Dr. Ingram’s upcoming book project titled The Wickedest City in America: Sex...
July 17, 2017
Thomas Thurston spoke with Abigail Cooper, an Assistant Professor in History at Brandeis University and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, about her work...
June 19, 2017
In this episode, GLC Modern Slavery Fellow Wendy S. Hesford discusses “Enslaved Girlhoods: Gendering Terror, Human Trafficking, and Human Security” a chapter from her book-...
June 5, 2017
In this episode Yale PhD candidate Wendell Adjetey discusses how US draft resisters in the 1960s and 1970s, especially African Americans, employed the myth of Canada as the...
May 22, 2017
In this episode Angela Alonso, from the Department of Sociology at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, argues that the campaign for the abolition of slavery was the first...
May 8, 2017
In this episode Marcela Echeverri, an Assistant Professor of History at Yale University, spoke with Alejandro E. Gómez, Maître de conférences of Latin American History at...
April 21, 2017
In this 2 part episode we join James Scott as he presents some of the main arguments in his upcoming book Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. This...
April 10, 2017
In this episode Garnette Cadogan, editor-at-large for Non-Stop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas, reads his essay “Walking While Black,” originally published in Freeman’s, a...
March 27, 2017
In this episode James Walvin, Professor of History Emeritus at the University of York, discusses how traces of slavery are often overlooked in the material culture we value...
March 13, 2017
In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Christienna Fryar, an Assistant Professor of History at SUNY Buffalo State and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, on...
February 27, 2017
In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Isela Gutiérrez, the Associate Research Director for Democracy North Carolina and a speaker on the Gilder Lehrman Center’s “Right...
February 13, 2017
In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Elena Shih, an Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and a visiting fellow at the Gilder ...
February 6, 2017
In this episode David Blight speaks with Bryan Stevenson, the founding director of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and...
January 30, 2017
In this episode Thomas Thurston spoke with Mathias Rodorff, a PhD candidate at the University of Munich and a visiting fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center, about his current...
