Yale Bulletin and Calendar

September 27, 2002|Volume 31, Number 4

Gift will continue work of Yale center
devoted to studying impact of slavery

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition has received a major gift from its founding donors -- Richard Gilder, Class of 1954, and Lewis Lehrman, Class of 1960 -- to continue its operation for many years.

Established at Yale in 1998 and directed by David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, the Gilder Lehrman Center promotes understanding of all aspects and implications of the Atlantic slave system and its ultimate destruction. The center awards annually the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for the best new book on slavery, resistance and abolition. Encouraging new scholarship, the Gilder Lehrman Center also originates and organizes publications, conferences, local and national educational outreach and other events.

"We are grateful to Dick Gilder and Lew Lehrman for creating this highly-regarded scholarly enterprise," said President Richard C. Levin. "Inspired by their love of history and their conviction that it holds important lessons for the present, this new gift will ensure that the center will flourish in the years ahead."

Gilder is a senior partner of Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co., a New York City securities brokerage firm. Lehrman is the general partner of Ten Squared, L.P. of Greenwich, Connecticut. Both men have been active and generous alumni and have supported other civic and cultural institutions.

"This extension is an exciting development," says Robert Forbes, associate director of the Gilder Lehrman Center. "In addition to furthering our primary work, it will enable the Gilder Lehrman Center to play a leading role in planning the upcoming commemorations of the sectional crisis and Civil War."

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