Free books for students! Help us launch our History School Book Club
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We’re excited to announce a pilot program for high school students called History School Book Club.
Catching Up on Affiliate Schools with Education Department Coordinator Daniel Pecoraro
The Education Department: Daniel Pecoraro
Read moreKennedy, Nixon, and Eisenhower Write to Jackie Robinson about Civil Rights
Jackie Robinson and the Presidents
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has acquired a fascinating collection of correspondence from Presidents Nixon, Eisenhower, and Kennedy to baseball legend and prominent civil rights activist Jackie Robinson.
Read moreIntroducing Daniel Jocz, the 2018 California History Teacher of the Year
Daniel Jocz
California History Teacher of the Year
Read moreIntroducing Martene Campbell, the 2018 Arkansas History Teacher of the Year
Martene Campbell
Arkansas History Teacher of the Year
Read moreThe National History Teacher of the Year 2018 is Joe Welch
Meet Joseph Welch, 2018 National History Teacher of the Year
Joseph Welch is a seventh and eighth grade social studies teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has been the curriculum chair and project advisor for Project Connect 1:1 Initiative, a sponsor of the National History Day Program for Regional Students, and the director of the North Hills DC Trip Program.
Read moreCivil Rights Leader C. Herbert Oliver Recalls His Report on the Bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963
Just five days after the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963, Reverend C. Herbert Oliver wrote a report on Birmingham in the form of a letter, circulated nationwide on behalf of the Inter-Citizens Committee, in which he documented the violence that was consuming the city.
The Gilder Lehrman Collection recently acquired an original copy of Reverend Oliver’s letter. Reverend Oliver, who now lives in Brooklyn, kindly agreed to an interview at the Collection, which included a special viewing of his letter.
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