Publications

The following books, CDs, and resources have been produced by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and are available for sale at the Gilder Lehrman History Shop.

History in a Box

Components of each History in a Box include a resource book of documents placed in context with transcripts and images in print and on CD; lectures by eminent historians; posters and placards for classroom use; a CD of music and/or readings; and related booklets of resources.

• American History: An Introduction
• The Founding Era
• Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States
• Slavery and Abolition
• Abraham Lincoln
• The Civil War
• The American West
• The Freedom to Move: Immigration and Migration in U.S. History

Calendars

• 2013 Calendar of the Civil War

Books and Booklets

• Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words
• Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States
• Citizen or Slave: The Dred Scott Decision, 1857
• Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings, 1760–1820
• Great Lincoln Documents: Historians Present Treasures from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
• “I take up my pen”: Letters from the Civil War
• James Madison and the Birth of the US Constitution
• Pictures of the Civil War: Five Union Soldiers’ Sketchbooks (out of print)
• Slavery in the Founding Era: Literary Contexts
• Treasures of American History: Documents Presented in Honor of New Citizens of the United States
• Why Documents Matter: American Originals and the Historical Imagination, Selections from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
• Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery

CD-ROMs and DVDs

• Mr. Lincoln’s War: Selected Letters, Photographs, and Songs (CD-ROM) (out of print)
• An American Sampler: Poems and Songs that Celebrate Our Nation’s Past (DVD) (out of print)
• Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America (CD-ROM)
• Freedom: A History of US (CD-ROM)

Posters

Reproductions of actual historic documents and images, on high-quality poster paper, measuring 22" x 30". New posters (shown in bold) are on white paper; previously printed posters are ivory.

1. Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770
2. Phillis Wheatley, 1773
3. Declaration of Independence, 1776
4. United States Constitution, 1787
5. Runaway Slave Ads
6. Anti-Slavery Broadside, 1836
7. Abraham Lincoln, 1860
8. Civil War Scenes
9. Emancipation Proclamation
10. Civil War Recruiting Poster, 1863
11. President Abraham Lincoln, 1863
12. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865
13. Fifteenth Amendment, 1870
14. Frederick Douglass, c. 1870
15. The Women’s Suffrage Movement
16. World War I Recruiting Poster, 1918
17. Civil Rights Placard, 1968
18. North American Colonies, 1733
19. United States, 1862
20. British Troops Landing in Boston, 1768 (out of print)
21. Civil War Recruiting Poster, 1863
22. Emancipated Slave Children, 1863
23. Black Troops in the Civil War, 1863
24. Sojourner Truth, 1864
25. Civil War Recruiting Poster, 1864 (out of print)
26. African American History, 1619–1897
27. Yosemite Land Grant, 1864
28. Yellowstone: First National Park, 1872 (out of print)
29. Theodore Roosevelt, 1906
30. Suffragist Movement (out of print)
31. 20th-Century Immigration
32. World War I Recruiting Poster, 1918
33. The U.S.A. in World War II (out of print)
34. Patriotism in World War II (out of print)
35. Civil Rights placard, 1968
36. The Little Rock Nine, 1957
37. School Desegregation, 1963
38. Abolitionist Flag, c. 1859
39. John Brown, 1800–1859
40. Labor on the Home Front, 1918
41. Immigrants & the War Effort, 1917
42. Pearl Harbor, 1941
43. What You Can Do – World War II