About page 2020 Winter Newsletter Dear Teachers, Supporters, and Friends of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, I greet you at the end of a very successful 2019, looking forward to more in 2020. We have reached more than 24,000 Affiliate Schools in all fifty states and in...
News Wall Street Journal Profile of National History Teacher of the Year and Other Press Coverage The Gilder Lehrman Institute received generous press attention during the last month of 2019. Here are some highlights: The Wall Street Journal offered a wide-ranging profile of Gilder Lehrman Institute National History Teacher of the...
About page 2020 New Year Newsletter - redirect Dear Teachers, Supporters, and Friends of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, I greet you at the end of a very successful 2019, looking forward to more in 2020. We have reached more than 24,000 Affiliate Schools in all fifty states and in...
News 50 States, 1 Nation Elementary School Essay Contest Launched A New Writing Contest for Elementary School Students After eight exciting years of the Dear George Washington Essay Contest , which has yielded creative and thoughtful responses from elementary school students across the country, the...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Reporting on the Spanish Influenza, 1918 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 These newspaper articles illustrate the impact on American society of Spanish Influenza (H1N1), which first appeared in the United States in March 1918. [1] There were periodic, minor outbreaks for six months, but in September a...
News Re-envision Women's History with Professors Carol Berkin and Catherine Clinton Professors Carol Berkin and Catherine Clinton have revolutionized the field of American women’s history in their academic careers. Berkin struggled against a generation that believed incorrectly that there were no primary sources to...
About page Announcing the 2020 Lincoln Prize Finalists Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History have announced the finalists for the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize: Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the...
News Announcing the 2020 Lincoln Prize Finalists Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History have announced the finalists for the 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize . Eric Foner, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Diary of World War I nurse Ella Osborn, 1918–1919 World History 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 At the outbreak of World War I, Ella Jane Osborn was a surgical nurse at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. In January 1918, she volunteered to serve with the American Expeditionary Forces as a member of the Red Cross’s nursing...
News Ohio History Teacher of the Year Interviewed about WWII Fallen Soldiers Project Joseph Boyle, the 2019 Ohio Teacher of the Year, has, since 2014 led a powerful teaching unit with his students at Morrison R. Waite High School in Toledo. Using only primary source documents, Boyle’s students reconstruct the lives of...
About page 2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Recipient Announced Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Elizabeth R. Varon , author of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War (Oxford University Press), is the recipient of the 2020...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Why Black men fought in World War I, 1919 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 During World War I, approximately 370,000 black men in the US military served in segregated regiments and were often relegated to support duties such as digging trenches, transporting supplies, cleaning latrines, and burying the dead....
News The 21st Frederick Douglass Book Prize Ceremony The 21st Frederick Douglass Book Prize was awarded on February 13, 2020, at the Schimmel Center of Pace University to Amy Murrell Taylor, professor of history at the University of Kentucky, for her book Embattled Freedom: Journeys...
History Now Essay Why They Marched: Rank and File Perspectives on the Women’s Suffrage Movement Susan Ware In 1914, a Massachusetts woman named Claiborne Catlin decided to ride across the state on horseback to rally support for women’s suffrage. All of her personal belongings, including a khaki jacket and divided skirt donated by Filene’s... Appears in: 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
History Now Essay An Arduous Path: The Passage and Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment Elaine Weiss As we mark the centennial of women’s constitutional right to vote, we should remember that the Nineteenth Amendment, like the suffrage movement itself, was forced to navigate an arduous path. Even at the endgame, even at the dawn of... Appears in: 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
Spotlight on: Primary Source Selling World War I: "Buy Liberty Bonds!" 1917-1919 Government and Civics When the United States declared war on Germany in April 1917, it needed funds to support the war effort. The Civil War had demonstrated that simply printing more currency would lead to inflation and economic trouble. During World War...
History Now Essay The League of Women Voters: A Century of Voter Engagement Barbara Winslow The League of Women Voters (LWV) was founded in 1920 by American suffragists, just months before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment gave women the constitutional right to vote after more than seventy years of struggle. Over... Appears in: 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
Spotlight on: Primary Source Rules for discharging disabled veterans, 1919 Government and Civics When World War I ended in 1918 more than 4.6 million men returned to the United States from war. The American people and the US government were unprepared to reintegrate and care for the men who returned with physical injuries and...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Emma Goldman on the restriction of civil liberties, 1919 Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Emma Goldman was born to a Jewish family in Kovno, Russia (present-day Lithuania). In 1885, at the age of sixteen, she emigrated to the United States, becoming a well-known author and lecturer promoting anarchism, workers’ rights,...
History Now Essay The First Generation: America’s Women Voters, 1776–1807 Marcela Micucci Most histories of women gaining the right to vote in the United States begin in July of 1848, when hundreds of activists gathered in Seneca Falls to hold the first women’s rights convention and sign the Declaration of Sentiments. The... Appears in: 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
History Now Essay With All Due Respect: Understanding Anti-Suffrage Women Susan Goodier Government and Civics Although it may be hard to believe today, not everyone wanted women to have the right to vote. In fact, during the early nineteenth century, very few people thought women capable of political engagement of any kind. As the century... Appears in: 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
History Now Essay Editor’s Log Carol Berkin This year marks the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. On August 26, 1920, American women were at last given that most fundamental of rights in a democratic society: the right to vote. But “given” is... Appears in: 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
History Now Essay African American Women and the Nineteenth Amendment Sharon Harley Government and Civics Sharon Harley is Associate Professor and former Chair of the African American Studies Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. She and historian Rosalyn Terborg-Penn co-edited the pioneer anthology The Afro-American... Appears in: 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020 56 | The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond Spring 2020
News Kathrine Mott Named Chief Operating Officer of the Gilder Lehrman Institute The Gilder Lehrman Institute is delighted to announce that Kathrine Mott will be joining us as our new chief operating officer, starting Monday, March 9. Gilder Lehrman president Jim Basker said, “We are thrilled to have Kathrine join...
About page 2020 Spring Newsletter Dear Teachers, Supporters, and Friends, I hope this finds you and your loved ones doing well, staying safe and healthy. This newsletter had been prepared and was ready to go out when the COVID-19 crisis struck and we had to close our...
History Now Essay Teaching the Revolution Carol Berkin Government and Civics For most Americans, young and old, the history of the American Revolution can be summed up something like this: In 1776, all the colonists rose up in unison to rebel against a tyrannical king and the horrible burden of unfair taxes... Appears in: 21 | The American Revolution Fall 2009
News New, Free Family Website Subscription Provides Resources and Guidance for Remote Learning In these months of remote learning, parents and family members, who are taking on the role of teacher while classroom teachers strive to construct meaningful remote lessons, need resources, advice, and guidance for their kids. We at...
News Study Black Women's History in Online MA Summer Course with Professor Kellie Carter Jackson of Wellesley College The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Pace University are pleased to announce that registration for Summer 2020 courses is open for the online Master of Arts in American History Program. We highlight here one of the six...