History Now Essay From The Editor Carol Berkin Welcome to the sixth issue of HISTORY NOW. I am pleased to announce that HISTORY NOW was recently selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities for inclusion on EDSITEment ( http://edsitement.neh.gov ) as one of the best... Appears in: From the Editor
News A Message from Gilder Lehrman Institute President James Basker Dear Friends of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, I write to our entire Gilder Lehrman Institute community with concern as, in the midst of a global pandemic, a new crisis with terrible historical echoes has arisen. The killing of George...
History Now Essay Women and the Early Industrial Revolution in the United States Thomas Dublin Economics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The industrial revolution that transformed western Europe and the United States during the course of the nineteenth century had its origins in the introduction of power-driven machinery in the English and Scottish textile industries... Appears in: 10 | Nineteenth Century Technology Winter 2006
History Now Essay Citizenship in the Reconstruction South Susanna Lee Economics, Government and Civics Slaveholders created a system of race, gender, and class inequality in the pre-Civil War South. They justified slavery by arguing that enslaved people could not take care of themselves and needed masters to look after them. White... Appears in: 55 | Examining Reconstruction Fall 2019
History Now Essay Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington at the Tuskegee Institute, 1892: A Little-known Encounter Adele Alexander Featuring a passage from Adele Alexander’s book in progress, A Black Suffragist in the Jim Crow South: Adella Hunt Logan’s Epic Journey Author’s Introduction Most historians consider Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington the... Appears in: 50 | Frederick Douglass at 200 Winter 2018 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
News Black Lives in the Founding Era News, Week 4: Phillis Wheatley, American Poet The Gilder Lehrman Institute’s “ Black Lives in the Founding Era ” initiative restores to view the lives and works of a wide array of African Americans in the period 1760 to 1800, drawing on our archive of historical documents and our...