Video: Book Breaks Jeanne Theoharis - "A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History" Government and Civics, Literature Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Order A More Beautiful and Terrible History at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the...
Lesson Plan What Does Liberty Look Like? Government and Civics " We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ." Declaration of...
Video: Book Breaks David Hackett Fischer - "African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals" Art, Economics, Foreign Languages, Geography, Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History, Emeritus at Brandeis University. Order African Founders at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase...
Lesson Plan World War I, African American Soldiers, and America’s War for Democracy 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this lesson plan.
Video: Book Breaks Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, and Lisa McGirr - "Give Me Liberty! An American History" Literature Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lisa McGirr is a Charles Warren Professor of American...
Video: Book Breaks Tamara Payne - "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X" Religion and Philosophy Tamara Payne is a journalist and primary researcher for The Dead Are Arising. Order The Dead Are Arising at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: "Meanwhile Back at the Branch..." Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On November 3, 2022, our curators were joined by Barbara Harris Combs of Kennesaw State University. Professor Combs discussed the NAACP pamphlet Meanwhile Back at the Branch... and the many ways in which civil rights activists worked...
Video: Book Breaks Bruce A. Ragsdale - "Washington and the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery" Government and Civics Bruce A. Ragsdale has served as the director of the Federal Judicial History Office at the Federal Judicial Center. Order Washington and the Plow at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase...
Video: Read Along "No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas" Government and Civics Junius G. Groves came from humble beginnings in the Bluegrass State. Born in Kentucky into slavery, freedom came when he was still a young man and he intended to make a name for himself. Along with thousands of other African...