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August 17, 2020
The Shared Histories Symposium is designed to share the results of the three-year Gilder Lehrman Center Shared Histories Africa Institute, funded by the Robina Foundation,...
Davis Street, South African Students Collaborate On Civil Rights History
December 4, 2019
Davis Street, South African Students Collaborate On Civil Rights History Dec 4, 2019 Waltrina Kirkland-Mullins’ third grade students from the Davis Academy for Arts and...
Seth Mazibuko with a group of student visitors. The young man smiling in the photograph behind him is Seth’s 17-year-old self, greeting supporters at his trial for “sedition and terrorism.”
December 3, 2019
Vilakazi Street runs through the township of Orlando West, in Soweto, South Africa. At first glance it’s not very impressive, one could walk from one end to the other in ten...
Waltrina Kirkland-Mullens
November 25, 2019
Saturday November 23, Harvard University’s Center for African Studies was filled with former students and their family members from Waltrina Kirkland-Mullens’ third grade...
November 25, 2019
Thomas Thurston discusses the Transatlantic Histories program and the Gilder Lehrman Center with Tom Ficklin November 25 2019
Ibrahim Lamin, Abubakarr Kamara, and Kevin Staton
June 17, 2019
The Tom Ficklin Radio Show: WNHH-LP 103.5 FM | Teachers Of Transatlantic Histories Kevin Staton, Abubakarr Kamara, and Ibrahim Lamin, teachers participating in the US/Sierra...
January 25, 2019
“Bunce Island and Yagala impacted me in ways hard to describe. I felt the weight and history of those places in a way that deeply moved me. It was an incredible experience to...