News Yellow Fever Epidemic, 1793 View the account of the 1793 yellow fever outbreak in Philadelphia or read the transcript .
News Learn to Make an Interactive Timeline Do you want to make a great interactive timeline that incorporates images, text, audio, and video? TimelineJS is a great free tool to explore. View this tutorial as a printable PDF. If you need more help, or if you'd like to explore...
News Ensign Jesse Brown, First African American Naval Aviator, 1948 In October 1948, Jesse LeRoy Brown made history by becoming the first African American naval aviator. Born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 1926, Brown was inspired to become a pilot by an airshow that he attended at age six. After...
News National Prohibition Act Passed: On This Day, October 28 On October 28, 1919, the National Prohibition Act—also known as the Volstead Act—was passed by Congress, overriding President Woodrow Wilson’s veto. On January 16, 1920, Americans would have to put down their drinks and shutter the...
News Are We in a New Gilded Age? The question of whether the United States has entered a new Gilded Age pops up quite frequently in magazines, op-eds, and newscasts these days. Here, historian Edward O’Donnell, author of Henry George and the Crisis of Inequality ,...
News The Harlem Rattlers—African Americans in WWI Historian Jeffrey Sammons tells the story of the Harlem Rattlers in the Great War. The 369th Regiment —a unit of African American soldiers — fought on two fronts: in the trenches of Europe and for civil rights in the military and at...
News Surrender of Cornwallis, Yorktown, 1781 Read about Cornwallis' last gambit at the Siege of Yorktown and view more primary sources related to the surrender of Cornwallis.
News Introducing Soldier Spotlight: A Confederate Soldier Speaks The Gilder Lehrman Collection contains more than 15,000 letters written by servicemen from the American Revolution through World War II. These personal letters, largely unpublished, capture the experience of the common soldier and his...
News Western Sanitary Commission Report on Civil War Refugees, 1863 Read about the report from the Western Sanitary Commission regarding the conditions of freed slaves in the Mississippi valley.
News History Teacher of the Year Awarded On October 19, champions of American history education gathered at the Yale Club in New York City to celebrate the 2015 Gilder Lehrman National History Teacher of the Year. The award highlights the crucial importance of American...