Spotlight on: Primary Source Lowell Mill Girls and the factory system, 1840 Economics Lowell, Massachusetts, named in honor of Francis Cabot Lowell, was founded in the early 1820s as a planned town for the manufacture of textiles. It introduced a new system of integrated manufacturing to the United States and...
News The Gilder Lehrman Institute Presents Alysha Butler with the 2019 National History Teacher of the Year Award On October 2, 2019, in the Grand Ballroom at the Yale Club in New York City, Alysha Butler of McKinley Technology High School in Washington DC was presented with the 2019 National History Teacher of the Year Award. At the event,...