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From letter, Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox re: Ordinance Department, ca. 1779,
(GLC 07167)




Tintype of unidentified private, ca. 1861. (GLC 05111.01.0506)




"Reading the Emancipation Proclamation." Lithograph of black family reading newspaper, Hartford, Conn., 1864. (Detail, GLC 07595)




Watercolor from the sketchbook of Philo H. Arnold, 1848. (GLC01685)



Research Fellows Dissertation Fellows


Chad Alan Goldberg (University of Wisconsin)
The women's suffrage movement and the development of the US welfare state (The Gilder Lehrman Collection)

Colin Maynard (Independent Scholar)
Holidays in the American Civil War (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Trisha Posey (John Brown University)
Poverty Encounters: Unitarians, the Poor and Poor Relief in Antebellum Boston and Philadelphia (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

H. Paul Thompson (North Greenville University)
The Swam Song of Antebellum Reform: Temperance Reform in Post-Emancipation Atlanta, 1865-1887 (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

Douglas Waller (Independent Scholar)
Biography of William J. Donovan (The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Amy Werbel (St. Michael's College)
Biography of Anthony Comstock (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Etheline Whitmire (University of Wisconsin)
Harlem Renaissance Librarian: A Black Feminist Biography of Regina Andrews (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)


Dissertation Fellows

Ian J. Aebel (University of New Hampshire)
Constructing History, Producing America: Anglo-American Historical Thought, Historiography, and the Birth of American History in the Early Modern English Atlantic World, c. 1485 to c. 1714 (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Gergely Baics (Northwestern University)
Feeding Gotham: A Social History of Urban Provisioning, 1780-1860
(The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

Matthew Bowman (Georgetown University)
Practicing Christianity: Evangelicals in New York City, 1880-1940 (Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Joanna Cohen (University of Pennsylvania)
Millions of Luxurious Citizens: Consumption and Citizenship in New York and Philadelphia, 1815-1876 (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Lauren Cordes Tate (Indiana University)
Pioneering Black Identity on the American Frontier (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Anne-Claire Faucquez (University of Paris VIII)
Slavery in New Netherland and New York, 1620-1720 (All Archives)

Rhonda Goodman (Stanford University)
The Visual Culture of Slave Auctions in Ninettenth Century North America (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Eric S. Hintz (University of Pennsylvania)
The PostHeroic Generation: American Independent Inventors, 1900-1950 (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

David Huyssen (Yale University)
"The Terrible Town": Intersections of Wealth and Poverty in New York, 1890-1920 (The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Shane Landrum (Brandeis University)
Documenting Citizens: Birth Registration and American Identities, 1890-present (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

Megan Lindsay (Yale University)
Leisler's Rebellion: Anglo-Dutch Politics in Seventeenth Century Colonial New York (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

David Lucander (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
It is a New Kind of Militancy; The March on Washington Movement, 1940-1946 (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Andrea Mosterman (Boston University)
Sharing Spaces in a new World Environment: African-Dutch Contributions to North American Culture, 1626-1826 (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Marco Robinson (University of Mississippi)
By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them: Civil Rights Activism at Rust college, 1950-1970 (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Charlotte Rodabaugh (West Virginia University)
Ambitious Brotherhood: Yankee Masculinity and the American Frontier (The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society)

Kelly Sisson (University of Michigan)
King Corn in American Culture, 1862-1936 (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Dana John Stefanelli (University of Virginia)
A Capital City: Financing the Development of Early Washington D.C. (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Jamie Warren (Indiana University)
Final Passage: Intimacy, Power and Death on Antebellum Plantations (The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society)

Rick Woten (Iowa State University)
Navigating the Era of Improvement: Internal Improvements and State Formation (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

















 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

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Albumen print of an unidentified woman in a black dress. (GLC 05131)








Full-length standing carte de visite portrait of two young girls in roller skates. Pentz imprint, York, Pa., undated. (GLC 00241.09)



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