Event Details

End: April 1, 2019
Contact: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu
More Info: https://glc.yale.edu/Events/yale-public-history-institute

Yale Public History Institute 2019 "Interpreting Difficult History" Yale University, New Haven, June 9-14, 2019

The Gilder Lehrman Center for Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University, in partnership with the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), announces its 8th annual Public History Institute [PHI]. Fifteen professional public historians at museums and cultural agencies in the United States, and six Yale graduate students, will be invited to come to New Haven to explore themes central to the public interpretation of "difficult history," taking account of the some of the most challenging narratives in the American past including race and racism, conquest, enslavement, economic exploitation, violence, abuse, exclusion, and stigmatization.

For an application form, email: gilder.lehrman.center@yale.edu

Application deadline: April 1, 2019