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Joshua Johnson: Portraitist of Federal-Era Baltimore

Daniel Fulco

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When African American portrait painter and formerly enslaved man Joshua Johnson (ca. 1763–ca. 1824) began his career during the 1790s, Baltimore was growing rapidly and developing into an economically prosperous, mercantile city of...

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73 | African American Artists Winter 2024

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Press Releases 2024 Yale and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Announce 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners Craig Symonds Wins the 11th Annual Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize David Waldstreicher Wins 2024...

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Professional Development

The Institute offers a wide range of professional development opportunities in American history, from customized in-person training at your school with scholars and master teachers, to rigorous summer teacher seminars and online...

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Black Slavery in North America

Black Slavery in North America This course is a survey of the experiences (social, legal, economic, cultural) of Africans and persons of African descent who resided in British North America (later the United States) from the period 1620 to 1850....

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Student Opportunities | Gilder Lehrman-National History Academy Scholarships

> > > Apply now on the National History Academy site by May 1 What if you had the opportunity not just to learn American history, but to live it? Spend your summer at the National History Academy’s Residential Summer...