About page 2023 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Recipients Announced February 27, 2023 — The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Jon Meacham , author of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random House), and Jonathan W. White , author of A House...
History Now Essay "The Authentic Voice of Today": Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton Elizabeth L. Wollman Art "The show is the first Broadway musical in some time to have the authentic voice of today rather than the day before yesterday." The comment above could easily have been written about Hamilton , but it was written long before Hamilton... Appears in: 44 | Alexander Hamilton in the American Imagination Winter 2016
Program/Event NEH Summer Institute for K–8 Educators March 1 The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction Dates: July 11–17, 2021 Location: Virtual Seminar Application Deadline: March 1, 2021 The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction was a virtual, weeklong 2021 Summer...
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 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 Lincoln at Cooper Union Harold Holzer Art, Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In March 1860, just a few weeks after returning home from his triumphant visit to New York to deliver his Cooper Union address, Lincoln went on the road yet again. He traveled up from Springfield, Illinois, to Chicago to complete... Appears in: 6 | Lincoln Winter 2005