News Announcing the Winners of the 2018–2019 Civil War Student Essay Contest The Gilder Lehrman Institute received a record 873 submissions for the 2018–2019 Civil War Student Essay Contest. Judges Kevin Cline (2016 National History Teacher of the Year and Indiana History Teacher of the Year (HTOY)), Kevin Dua...
Video The Men of Company E: Confronting Freedom after the Civil War Government and Civics 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Civil War Diaries of William Woodlin, 8th USCT, & Cyrena Hammond 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ During the Civil War, 22-year-old William Woodlin, a musician in the 8th United States Colored Troops, and 18-year-old Cyrena Hammond, from Clarendon, New York, kept diaries about their experiences and observations. They recorded the...
History Now Essay The Zimmermann Telegram and American Entry into World War I Michael S. Neiberg World History 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The fact that the telegram before him bore Arthur Zimmermann’s name made its contents that much harder for Walter Hines Page to believe. Page was the American ambassador to Great Britain and on a cold London morning in late February... Appears in: 31 | Perspectives on America’s Wars Spring 2012
History Now Essay "Dear Miss Cole": World War I Letters of American Servicemen Phillip Papas World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ "Received your package," Pvt. George Van Pelt of Company I, 165th Infantry wrote in May 1918 from the frontlines in France to Annie E. Cole, a grammar school teacher and principal on Staten Island, New York, and to her students. "I... Appears in: 43 | Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam Fall 2015
Video: Book Breaks Elizabeth Varon - "Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War" Elizabeth Varon is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and the associate director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. Order Armies of Deliverance at the Gilder...