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[Pay roll for company of Capt. Robert Snell]

Pay roll accounts for a company of volunteers under the command of Captain Robert Snell for January and February 1813. Signature on verso certifying that the Snell's company is under "the service of the United States."

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History Now Essay

The New York African Burial Ground

Edna Greene Medford

The unearthing of the “Negroes Burying Ground” in New York City in 1991 challenged the narrow, popular perception of slavery as an antebellum, southern-based, agrarian institution. It revealed to the public what historians had long...

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62 | The Honored Dead: African American Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Burial Grounds Spring 2022

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Kevin J. Weddle Wins the 2021 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize

Winner of the Ninth Annual Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History Announced Award Program to Take Place Wednesday, November 2, 2022 New York, NY, September 22, 2022 – The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today...

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The Forties and the Music of World War II

Elihu Rose

Art

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The 1940s were the apotheosis of American popular music. Swing, blues and country were all popular styles but, above all, it was the heyday of the seventeen-piece big band. Names like Benny Goodman, Glen Miller, Tommy Dorsey, and Duke...

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32 | The Music and History of Our Times Summer 2012

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The US and Spanish American Revolutions

Jay Sexton

Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, World History

If one says "American Revolution" in the United States today, it is assumed that what is being referred to is the North American liberation struggles against the British Empire in the late eighteenth century. But the British North...

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34 | The Revolutionary Age Winter 2012

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Reconstruction and the Remaking of the Constitution

Eric Foner

Government and Civics

Reprinted by permission of Eric Foner from the preface to his book The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (Norton, 2019) The Civil War and the Reconstruction period that followed form the...

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55 | Examining Reconstruction Fall 2019

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Facing the New Millennium

Michael Flamm

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

In 1941, on the eve of Pearl Harbor, Time magazine publisher Henry Luce predicted that the twentieth century would become known as the "American Century." By many measures he was correct. During the next sixty years, the United States...

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The Riddles of "Confederate Emancipation"

Bruce Levine

Economics, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

In July 1861, Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate States of America, was exulting over the victory of his troops at the first Battle of Manassas (or Bull Run) and calling it a sign of eventual triumph in the war as a...

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26 | New Interpretations of the Civil War Winter 2010

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American Jewish Origins, 1654-1820

Hasia Diner

Religion and Philosophy

A year after his inauguration as president, George Washington visited the Newport, Rhode Island Jewish Congregation, Jeshuat Israel, in 1790. He went in response to a letter he had received from the leaders of that synagogue as well...

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71 | The Jewish Legacy in American History Summer 2024

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The New York African Burial Ground

Our Partners

Kevin J. Weddle Wins the 2021 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize

The Forties and the Music of World War II

The US and Spanish American Revolutions

Reconstruction and the Remaking of the Constitution

Facing the New Millennium

The Riddles of "Confederate Emancipation"

American Jewish Origins, 1654-1820

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