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Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Honors Conroy and Egerton
At this evening’s Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Ceremony, at the Union League Club in New York City, we will honor James B. Conroy and Douglas R. Egerton for their outstanding scholarly works on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. The...
A Poem by John Quincy Adams on Love and Friendship
The Gilder Lehrman Collection has a multitude of personal letters and writings by prominent politicians, which often reveal a lighter side to their austere public personas. This poem written in 1829 by John Quincy Adams to a female...
Happy 217th Birthday, Library of Congress
On April 24, 1800, John Adams signed a Congressional Act authorizing the transfer of the nation’s capital from Philadelphia to Washington, DC. Tucked into this bill was a provision of funds "for the purchase of such books as may be...
National Poetry Month, Part 4: WWI Poems
In 1918, Ella Osborn, an American nurse serving in France at the close of WWI, copied two poems into her personal diary : "In Flanders Fields," written in 1915 by Canadian surgeon Lt. Col. John D. McCrae, and "The Answer," a response...
The Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Ceremony
At the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize ceremony, at the Union League Club in New York City, on April 19, we honored James B. Conroy and Douglas R. Egerton for their outstanding scholarly works on Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War. Read...
The Doctrine of Discovery: On This Day, 1493
In October 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on a Caribbean island he called San Salvador and claimed it for the king and queen of Spain. A few months later, on May 4, 1493, Pope Alexander VI issued a papal bull known as " Inter...
Teacher Appreciation Week: Teaching Resources
It’s Teacher Appreciation Week! At Gilder Lehrman, we’re celebrating social studies/history teachers for their invaluable work in not only bringing history to life for their students, but educating future generations of knowledgable,...
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