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National History Teacher of the Year Award

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Since 2004, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has presented awards to the best history teachers in the United States. Together with our partners Preserve America and HISTORY, we award 53 winners from US states and territories and one...

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Joshua Bill, 2012 National History Teacher of the Year

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Emancipation and the Question of Agency: The Power of the Enslaved, the Power of Policy

Government and Civics

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Historian James Oakes (The Graduate Center, City University of New York) addresses the timeless question of agency in emancipation—who freed the slaves?—by suggesting that the query demands greater nuance. The agency of slaves and...

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American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation

Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy

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James G. Basker (Barnard College, Columbia University) discusses his latest book, American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (The Library of America, 2012). Basker, who is also the president of the Gilder...

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The Haitian Revolution: A New Vision of Freedom in the Atlantic World

World History

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Duke University historian Laurent Dubois discusses slavery, culture, and ideology in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which upon the triumph of its revolution in 1804 became the nation of Haiti—the first and only nation...

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The Origins of the French Revolution: American Influence, Domestic Discontent

World History

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Reason and Emotion in Revolutionary America

Government and Civics, World History

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New York University historian Nicole Eustace discusses the "tempest of emotion" that swept through the Age of Reason, epitomized by the earliest call for a full break between the American colonies and Great Britain, Thomas Paine’s...

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Taxation and Representation: The Imperial Debate between Britain and the Americans

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Brown University historian Gordon Wood describes the British and American conceptions of representation during the eighteenth century, widely diverging points of view that were forged by radically different experiences with...

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The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War

Government and Civics

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Edward J. Renehan Jr. examines Theodore Roosevelt’s view of war and how this affected his children, based on his book The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War. ...

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War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

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Andrew Carroll, founder of the Legacy Project, recounts his search for letters from America’s wars and reads excerpts from several.

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1,583 items

National History Teacher of the Year Award

Joshua Bill, 2012 National History Teacher of the Year

Emancipation and the Question of Agency: The Power of the Enslaved, the Power of Policy

American Antislavery Writings: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation

The Haitian Revolution: A New Vision of Freedom in the Atlantic World

The Origins of the French Revolution: American Influence, Domestic Discontent

Reason and Emotion in Revolutionary America

Taxation and Representation: The Imperial Debate between Britain and the Americans

The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War

War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American Wars

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