Welcome to the online exhibition of Freedom Riders created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in partnership with PBS’s flagship history series, American Experience. It was created as a companion to the American Experience documentary “Freedom Riders.”
World War II posters helped to mobilize a nation. Inexpensive, accessible and ever-present, the poster was an ideal agent for making war aims the personal mission of every citizen. Click here to launch this online exhibition.
When Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published in 1852, it ignited a great debate over the practice of slavery in America. A best seller that sold more than one million copies, the novel tells the stories of Tom, a field slave, and Eliza, a household servant, and how they dealt with the horrors of slavery....
These excerpts were chosen from more than 215 selections by 158 authors in the anthology.
After the Civil War, the United States government commissioned several surveys of the American West. Photography was widely used to document the region's unusual geography, and it was this visual evidence that spurred Congress to create the national park system.
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All images are from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
![Novi Belgi Novaeque Angliae [New Netherland and New England], 1682.](http://gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/aggregate-208x148/content-images/03582.jpg "Novi Belgi Novaeque Angliae [New Netherland and New England], 1682 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)")