News Register Now for Spring History School Building on the success of our summer and fall Gilder Lehrman History School , we are pleased to offer free courses this spring for elementary, middle, and high school students. History School provides engaging live interactive...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: The Lives and Works of Phillis Wheatley and Elizabeth Keckley Literature 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On the February 4, 2021 session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection , our curators talk with English Language Arts educator Jeanette Providence and Hamilton cast member Krystal Mackie about the lives...
History Now Essay Yellow Fever 1793 Richard Brookhiser Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Late in August 1793 Philadelphia was struck by a strange and virulent disease. Patients developed aches, chills, and fever, vomited black bile, and turned yellow. Some recovered, but many died. The yellow fever, as it was called, had... Appears in: 58 | Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters Fall 2020
History Now Essay The Influenza of 1918 and the Coronavirus of 2020: Some Parallels and Differences John M. Barry Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Sometime prior to late January 1918, a virus jumped species from birds to humans, probably after passing through another mammal. It spawned a lethal pandemic. Sometime prior to late December 2019, a virus jumped species from bats to... Appears in: 58 | Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters Fall 2020
History Now Essay Invisible Threats and the Politics of Disaster: Three Mile Island and Covid-19 Natasha Zaretsky Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math An invisible, potentially deadly threat. Elected officials saying one thing, and public health experts saying another. A citizenry hungry for information and guidance. A cultural divide between those who are afraid of the threat and... Appears in: 58 | Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters Fall 2020
History Now Essay History in the Making: COVIDCalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic Scott Gabriel Knowles and Bucky Stanton Disasters are now a permanent feature of American life—no longer confined to predictable seasons or geographies—in the era of hyperglobalization and its related climate change, a disaster in one part of the world affects all of us.... Appears in: 58 | Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters Fall 2020
News Get to Know Sergio de Alba, 2020 National History Teacher of the Year Sergio de Alba, a teacher at R. M. Miano Elementary School in Los Baños, California, was named the 2020 National History Teacher of the Year and will be honored in a recorded ceremony on October 7, 2020. Register here for A Tribute to...
History Now Essay Excerpt from Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, "Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793" (1794), with an introduction by James G. Basker Absalom Jones and Richard Allen Paragraphs Appears in: 58 | Resilience, Recovery, and Resurgence in the Wake of Disasters Fall 2020