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American Jews played an outsized role in the Civil Rights Movement, both in number and prominence. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rabbi Joachim Prinz spoke at the 1963 March on Washington. Of...
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Jewish Americans have made contributions to American society that far exceed their percentage of our country’s population. This is a minority culture that has touched every aspect of American society, from the arts, to medicine and...
David Chrisinger - "The Soldier's Truth: Ernie Pyle and the Story of World War II"
David Chrisinger is the executive director of the Harris Writing Workshop at the University of Chicago’s Harris School of Public Policy. He is the author of Public Policy Writing That Matters . Order The Soldier’s Truth at the Gilder...
George Washington and His World
George Washington and His World Led by: Prof. Denver Brunsman (George Washington University) Course Number: AMHI 623 Semesters: New Course Image: A portrait of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale, ca. 1846 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 24.109.86...
African American History to Emancipation
African American History to Emancipation Led by: Prof. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham (Harvard University) Course Number: AMHI 678 Semesters: New Course Image: A photograph of African Americans at Rhett’s Plantation, Port Royal Island, SC, ca. 1861–1865...
Dwight D. Eisenhower and His Times
Dwight D. Eisenhower and His Times Led by: Prof. Michael Birkner (Gettysburg College) Course Number: AMHI 658 Semesters: New Course Image: Dwight Eisenhower, ca. 1945 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC00162.23)
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Origins of the Civil War
Origins of the Civil War Led by: Prof. James Oakes (CUNY Graduate Center) Course Number: AMHI 640 Semesters: Spring 2020, Fall 2024 Image: A photograph of African Americans near a canal in Richmond, Virginia, by Alexander Gardner, 1865 (The Gilder...
Alan Taylor - "American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873"
Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Order American Civil Wars at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the...
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