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Collection Programs

Inside the Vault Archive

View the complete archive of Inside the Vault recordings, presentation slides, and related resources.

Inside the Vault: Harry Truman on National Healthcare

Inside the Vault: First Black Cadets at West Point

Inside the Vault: The Salem Witch Trials

Inside the Vault: Baseball during World War II

Inside the Vault: The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Inside the Vault: Destruction of the King George III Statue in 1776

Inside the Vault: A 1925 Study Guide for Eighth-Grade Graduation in Iowa

Inside the Vault: Jewish American Soldiers & Jewish Refugees after World War II

Inside the Vault: The Surrender of Robert E. Lee

Inside the Vault: The Overland Trail

Inside the Vault: Lincoln’s Refusal to Pardon Nathaniel Gordon

Inside the Vault: The San Francisco Earthquake

Inside the Vault: “Pathological liar”: Harry Truman and the rise of Joseph McCarthy in 1950

Inside the Vault: Honoring America’s First Woman Veteran: The Revolutionary War Service of Margaret Corbin

Inside the Vault: The Reynolds Pamphlet

Inside the Vault: The Treaty of Paris

Inside the Vault: Twentieth-Century Voting Rights

Inside the Vault: 1796 Civics Textbook

Inside the Vault: The Whiskey Rebellion and United States Great Seal

Inside the Vault: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Voting Rights

Inside the Vault: Lynching and Anti-Lynching Materials

Inside the Vault: Food Purity, Prohibition, and the 1884 Election

Inside the Vault: Benjamin Franklin

Inside the Vault: Black Enfranchisement and Education: Selected Gilder Lehrman Collection Items on Exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum

Inside the Vault: South Carolina Ordinance of Secession

Inside the Vault: "Meanwhile Back at the Branch..."

Inside the Vault: Dwight D. Eisenhower's Views on Vietnam in 1967 and 1968

Inside the Vault: 1836 Texas Declaration of Independence

Inside the Vault: The New Deal & FDR's Presidential Campaigns

Inside the Vault: Thomas Paine's "Common Sense"

Inside the Vault: D-Day in maps and letters from soldiers and families

Inside the Vault: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt

Inside the Vault: A Summary View of the Rights of British America

Inside the Vault: Mary Katherine Goddard

Inside the Vault: David Blight Discusses Frederick Douglass Documents

Inside the Vault: Washington's Crossing of the Delaware River

Inside the Vault: Fight the Red Menace

Inside the Vault: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

Inside the Vault: World War II Propaganda

Inside the Vault: Treason in the American Revolution: Benedict Arnold and John André

Inside the Vault: Maps of Colonial America

Inside the Vault: Robert F. Kennedy's Report on Civil Rights

Inside the Vault: Chinese Exclusion Act

Inside the Vault: Massachusetts 54th

Inside the Vault: Declaration of Independence

Inside the Vault: Fighting for the Rights of Black Lives in the Founding Era

Inside the Vault: The March on Washington

Inside the Vault: World War II Soldiers: Lt. Robert L. Stone

Inside the Vault: The Diary of WWI Nurse Ella Jane Osborn

Inside the Vault: Occupation of Alcatraz

Inside the Vault: Benjamin Banneker

Inside the Vault: Civil War Diaries of William Woodlin, 8th USCT, & Cyrena Hammond

Inside the Vault: Lucy Knox

Inside the Vault: Frederick Douglass: Advocate for Equality

Inside the Vault: The Lives and Works of Phillis Wheatley and Elizabeth Keckley

Inside the Vault: Primary Sources about Enslaved People

Inside the Vault: George Washington's Inauguration

Inside the Vault: George Washington and Slavery

Inside The Vault: Eleanor Roosevelt, “Four Basic Rights,” and Desegregation

Inside the Vault: America’s First First Lady: Martha Washington

Inside the Vault: Pearl Harbor

Inside the Vault: Abraham Lincoln

Inside the Vault: Black Patriots of the American Revolution

Inside the Vault: Women's Suffrage

Inside the Vault: John Brown

Inside the Vault: Constitution Day!

Inside the Vault: The Emancipation Proclamation & FDR’s Advice to Students

Inside the Vault: "Your future rests… in your hands!”

Inside the Vault: The Election of 1800

Inside the Vault: July Anniversaries

Inside the Vault: The Schuyler Sisters

Inside the Vault: Jackie Robinson

Inside the Vault: Ulysses S. Grant

Inside the Vault: Founding Era Propaganda

Inside the Vault: Two Generals: George Washington and Robert E. Lee

Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Collection