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Map of the Foreign-Born Population of the United States, 1900

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According to the 1900 census, the population of the United States was then 76.3 million. Nearly 14 percent of the population—approximately 10.4 million people—was born outside of the United States. Drawn by America’s labor...

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1951

Bowman Gum Company (fl. 1951)

Fight the Red Menace: The Children's Crusade against Communism trading cards; 40. Frontier Patrol

One trading card from the Red Menace collection, "40. Frontier Patrol" depicting Norwegian soldiers on skis along a border. Reverse side contains propaganda narrative describing the Atlantic Pact as an agreement by which "free nations" provide aid...

GLC09627.40.02

Collection Item

1951

Bowman Gum Company (fl. 1951)

Fight the Red Menace: The Children's Crusade against Communism trading cards; 41. To the Mines

One trading card from the Red Menace collection, "41. To the Mines" depicting laborers in mines overworked, one laborer leans on another. Reverse side contains propaganda narrative mentioning uranium mines in the "Soviet Occupation Zone of Eastern...

GLC09627.41.02

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A frightening mission over Iwo Jima, 1945

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Lieutenant Bob Stone served as a bombardier in the 431st Bomb Squadron (Heavy), 7th United States Army Air Force in the Pacific. This Spotlight is part of a series of documents detailing the experience of airmen in World War II. Click...

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A soldier’s reaction to the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1945

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Lieutenant Bob Stone served as a bombardier in the 431st Bomb Squadron (Heavy), 7th United States Army Air Force in the Pacific. This Spotlight is part of a series of documents detailing the experience of airmen in World War II. Click...

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The World War II experience of Robert L. Stone, 1942–1945

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Lieutenant Robert “Bob” Stone served as a bombardier in the 431st Bomb Squadron (Heavy), 7th United States Army Air Force in the Pacific during World War II. Born on December 19, 1921 in New York City, Bob was a nineteen-year-old...

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The Battle of Iwo Jima: A family waits for news, 1945

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Lieutenant Bob Stone served as a bombardier in the 431st Bomb Squadron (Heavy), 7th United States Army Air Force in the Pacific. This Spotlight is part of a series of documents detailing the experience of airmen in World War II. Click...

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Bob Stone joins the US Army Air Forces, 1943–1944

Lieutenant Bob Stone served as a bombardier in the 431st Bomb Squadron (Heavy), 7th US Army Air Force in the Pacific. This Spotlight is part of a series of documents detailing the experience of airmen in World War II. Click here for...

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Revisiting the Founding Era

The Gilder Lerhman Institute of American History has been awarded a $400,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for Revisiting the Founding Era, a three-year project that will support programs at 97 public...

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Traveling Exhibitions | World War I and America

World War I and America examines the role the United States played in World War I and the impact of this move away from a policy of isolationism. Viewers will learn about life on the homefront and at war through documents, posters,...

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GLI Now - Fall 2017 Newsletter

2017 Teacher Seminars: Wrap-up and Highlights The Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Teacher Seminars , which have been held each summer since 1996, are the most popular professional development opportunity offered by our organization. Held...

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The Hamilton Education Program in Education Dive

In an article published today on Education Dive , Urban Assembly Media High School student Yadry Monsanto discusses her Hamilton Education Program experience on April 25, 2018: When I arrived at the Richard Rodgers Theatre to...

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GLI Now - Summer 2018 Newsletter

A Grant to Support California Teachers Since our founding, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has served thousands of educators through free, summer professional development programs that focus on a topic in American history. Due to a...

History Now Essay

Making (White Male) Democracy: Suffrage Expansion in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War

Stuart M. Blumin

Government and Civics

There is perhaps no theme more central to our traditional understanding of American history than the expansion of democracy. And in that long story of democratization we habitually regard as our peculiar contribution to the world,...

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51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018

History Now Issue

The Evolution of Voting Rights

#51 Summer 2018

History Now Essay

A Right Deferred: African American Voter Suppression after Reconstruction

Marsha J. Tyson Darling

Government and Civics

In the United States, voting is a constitutionally protected right and an essential symbol of meaningful political participation in our nation’s electoral processes of governing. The right to vote and to have one’s vote count toward...

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51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018

57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

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“A Vote-less People Is a Hopeless People”: Lessons from Selma

Robert A. Pratt

The black freedom struggle, commonly referred to as the civil rights movement, is undoubtedly one of the greatest social movements in the history of the world. After more than two centuries of bondage followed by another century of...

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51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018

57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

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From the Editor

Carol Berkin

Throughout the history of our country, being able to vote has been synonymous with enjoying a political voice. Although Americans from colonial times to the present have also expressed their views on policies, programs, and political...

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51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018

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Alice Paul, Suffrage Militant

Barbara Winslow

Government and Civics

Alice Stokes Paul (1885−1977) was one of the leading feminists of the early twentieth century, a person who brought the women’s suffrage movement into the national spotlight. Passage of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment or the Nineteenth...

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51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018

History Now Essay

Women's Long Journey for the Vote

Eleanor Clift

Government and Civics

The earliest and most famous expression of the discontent American women felt over their station in life was voiced by Abigail Adams in March 1776 when she urged her husband, the future president John Adams, to “Remember the Ladies, ...

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51 | The Evolution of Voting Rights Summer 2018

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Teacher Seminar Livestreams in Partnership with the Eisenhower Memorial Commission

As part of a special partnership with the Eisenhower Memorial Commission , the Gilder Lehrman Institute is pleased to present a special livestream of our Gilder Lehrman Teacher Seminar on Eisenhower and the Art of Presidential...

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Partnership Announced to Teach the History and Legacy of World War I

Free professional development may be coming soon to your state! We’re pleased to announce that the Gilder Lehrman Institute is partnering with the U.S. World War I Centennial Commission , National History Day , and the National World...

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Thomas D. Lehrman

Thomas D. Lehrman is managing partner of Teamworthy Ventures. Lehrman was formerly co-founder and former co-chief executive officer of Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) and has been involved as a founding or seed investor in numerous early...

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Valerie Rockefeller

Valerie Rockefeller chairs the board of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a private foundation advancing social change that contributes to a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world. Valerie has an MEd in Special Education from Bank...

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute in Philanthropy Magazine

The July 2018 issue of Philanthropy magazine features an extended look at the founding and history of both the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Hamilton Education Program. The profile features interviews with Gilder Lehrman staff,...