The Gilder Lehrman Center strives to make a vital contribution to the understanding of slavery and its role in the development of the modern world. While the Center’s primary focus has been on scholarly research, it also seeks to bridge the divide between scholarship and public knowledge by opening channels of communication between the scholarly community and the wider public.
The Yale Research Initiative on the History of Sexualities is dedicated to fostering research and theoretical reflection on the history of sexualities, especially as they intersect with other axes of social difference and inequality. It promotes inquiry into lesbian, gay, and transgender history and the role of sexuality in the history of the self, culture, nation, and empire. Based in the Department of History, the Initiative sponsors lectures, workshops, symposia, and collaborative research.
<br>From the 1960s on, family, gender, and sexuality have stood at the center of American political rhetoric. This talk examines the liberal claim that families require economic assistance, the conservative claim that they require moral protection, and the ways that family, gender, and sexuality have structured not just private life, but public life and the state as well.
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Beverly Gage, professor of history, will present a talk titled “J. Edgar Hoover and the Rise of Modern Conservatism.” A reception will follow in the McDougal Center common room. Her talk — which can be watched online on Yale’s YouTube channel — is part of this year’s In the Company of Scholars lecture series sponsored by Thomas D. Pollard, dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
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Yale historian Beverly Gage will be an eyewitness to history when she provides live coverage of President Obama’s second inauguration for “PBS NewsHour” on Monday, Jan. 21.
Gage has often provided commentary on the evening program, and she is frequently cited on the “NewsHour” blog for her perspective on current news and political trends. The subjects on which she has offered insight include the dramatic increase in the number of women elected to Congress, the political implications of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the congressional conflict over the debt ceiling debate.