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EduHam Online October 2022 Newsletter: Broadway's Nik Walker Reads Aaron Burr's Letters

Welcome to the official newsletter for the Hamilton Education Program Online , the program whose goal is to help students in grades 6–12 see the relevance of the founding era by using primary sources to create a performance piece (e.g...

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Professional Development | Teaching Civics through History (TCTH)

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T.H. Breen - "The Will of the People: The Revolutionary Birth of America"

Government and Civics

T. H. Breen is William Smith Mason Professor Emeritus of American History at Northwestern University. Order The Will of the People at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the...

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2022 National History Teacher of the Year Misha Matsumoto Yee Honored at Harvard Club Ceremony

The 2022 National History Teacher of the Year was honored in a ceremony at the Harvard Club in New York City this week. On Tuesday, October 18, Misha Matsumoto Yee was presented with her award, including a $10,000 check, by National...

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Phillip A. Jackson

The Rev. Phillip A. Jackson was named the nineteenth Rector of Trinity Church Wall Street in February 2022. Prior to his institution as Rector, Rev. Jackson served as Priest-in-charge for two years, performing all duties of a Rector,...

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Alan Jones

Alan Jones is a senior managing director and a member of the Management Committee at Intermediate Capital Group (“ICG”), a global alternative asset management firm. He is responsible for ICG’s Direct Private Investment businesses in...

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Frederick Douglass Exhibition Resources

Throughout his life, Frederick Douglass worked for equal rights. From the abolition of slavery to the fight against Jim Crow, he challenged Americans to live up to the founding ideals of the United States. The resources featured here...

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Bring the "Alexander Hamilton: Immigrant, Patriot, Visionary" Traveling Exhibition to Your School or Library

Gilder Lehrman Traveling Exhibitions are captivating ways to interact with American history—in the classroom, library, or other public space. One of our most popular exhibitions is Alexander Hamilton: Immigrant, Patriot, Visionary ....

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Tamara Payne - "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X"

Religion and Philosophy

Tamara Payne is a journalist and primary researcher for The Dead Are Arising. Order The Dead Are Arising at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...

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NBC News reports on Brooklyn School's African American Studies AP via GLI Training

NBC News reported on Brooklyn Preparatory High School's new African American Studies AP course and how Assistant Principal Shannah Henderson trained to teach it. "Henderson traveled to Howard University in July to be trained on how to...

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Join the Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School Program and Use a Lesson Plan this Afternoon, or All Year

Now in its fourteenth year, the Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School Program has been the path to free professional development, primary and secondary sources, lesson plans, and other teaching materials that bring American history to life...

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Announcing the Fall 2022 Issue of History Now: New Light on the Declaration and Its Signers

Published four times a year, History Now , the online journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, offers the latest in historical scholarship to K−12 teachers, students, and general readers. Each issue is organized around a major topic...

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Carrie Gibson - "El Norte: The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America"

Geography, Government and Civics, World History

Carrie Gibson is a historian (University of Cambridge) and journalist. Order El Norte at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our...

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Inside the Vault: "Meanwhile Back at the Branch..."

Government and Civics

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

On November 3, 2022, our curators were joined by Barbara Harris Combs of Kennesaw State University. Professor Combs discussed the NAACP pamphlet Meanwhile Back at the Branch... and the many ways in which civil rights activists worked...

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Steven A. Steinbach and Maeva Marcus - "With Liberty and Justice for All? The Constitution in the Classroom"

Geography, Government and Civics, Literature

Steven A. Steinbach teaches US history and government at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC and Maeva Marcus is a professor of law at George Washington University. Order With Liberty and Justice for All? at the Gilder...

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Celebrating Election Day with Classroom Resources

Election Day was created by Congress in 1845, individual states held elections within a 34-day period before the first Wednesday in December. Early voting results affected turnout and changed voters’ minds in states that held later...

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Celebrating Veterans Day with Classroom Resources

Originally known as Armistice Day, Veterans Day occurs on November 11 in honor of the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918 that marked the end of World War I. In 1954, the name of the holiday was changed...

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Announcing the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners

New Haven, CT, November 16, 2022 — Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today announced the winners for the twenty-fourth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most...

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Announcing the 2022 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners

Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History are pleased to announce the winners for the twenty-fourth annual Frederick Douglass Book...

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2023 Summer Professional Development from the Gilder Lehrman Institute

Registration for Summer 2023 PD is now open! The Gilder Lehrman Institute is offering multiple in-person and online American history programs for educators on a wide range of topics presented by award-winning scholars. Click here to...

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Buzz Bissinger - "The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II"

World History

Buzz Bissinger is a journalist who has won a Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Order The Mosquito Bowl at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank...

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Classroom and Parent Resources for Thanksgiving

The Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoags shared an autumn harvest feast in 1621 that served as the basis for what we now celebrate as Thanksgiving. Though it continued to be celebrated, first across the colonies and then the United...

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The Perfect Gift for Your Favorite History Lover: Self-Paced Courses

Looking for the perfect gift to give your favorite history teacher, precocious student, or relative who loves learning about American history? Register for free with the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Self-Paced Courses gift...

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Bruce A. Ragsdale - "Washington and the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery"

Government and Civics

Bruce A. Ragsdale has served as the director of the Federal Judicial History Office at the Federal Judicial Center. Order Washington and the Plow at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase...

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Michael Mandelbaum - "The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower"

World History

Michael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Order The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop...

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Kermit Roosevelt III - "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story"

Government and Civics

Kermit Roosevelt III is the David Berger Professor of the Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Order The Nation That Never Was at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate...

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Dixie De Luca

Dixie De Luca spent twenty-five years in the corporate insurance brokerage industry with the firms Aon, Marsh & McLennan, and Johnson & Higgins, working in Los Angeles, Dallas, New York, and Madrid. She retired as a Senior...

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Nancy Simpkins

Nancy Simpkins is a founding Trustee and past Chair of the Board of The Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY, and the Chair of the Board of Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, CT. She is also a Trustee of Teachers College at Columbia...

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EduHam Online December Newsletter: Deadline to Submit and Boston Tea Party

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Lucas Morel - "Lincoln and the American Founding"

Government and Civics

Lucas E. Morel is the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics and head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. Order Lincoln and the American Founding at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate...

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Asian American Immigration and US Policy

#65 Winter 2022

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The Sentinel Interviews Kevin Weddle on Winning the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History

"In today’s 5 Questions, The Sentinel gave Weddle the opportunity to delve deeper into the research and findings of his book that recently earned him the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History." Read more here .

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"No Small Potatoes: Junius G. Groves and His Kingdom in Kansas"

Government and Civics

Junius G. Groves came from humble beginnings in the Bluegrass State. Born in Kentucky into slavery, freedom came when he was still a young man and he intended to make a name for himself. Along with thousands of other African...

History Now Essay

파도와 메아리: Waves and Echoes of Korean Migration to the United States

Kira Donnell, Soojin Jeong, and Grace J. Yoo

Economics, Government and Civics, World History

According to the 2020 US Census, 1.9 million Korean Americans reside in the United States. Among Asian Americans, they are the fifth-largest ethnic group and primarily reside in California, New York, Hawaii, and Texas. [1] This essay...

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65 | Asian American Immigration and US Policy Winter 2022

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2022 Winter Newsletter

2022 has been a momentous year at the Gilder Lehrman Institute. Among the new programs for teachers launched this year, the Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium brought teachers from all over the country together to take courses in...

History Now Essay

The Repeal of Asian Exclusion

Jane Hong

Government and Civics, World History

The United States excluded Chinese people beginning in the late nineteenth century and expanded its ban to all Asians in the 1917 and 1924 Immigration Acts. In addition to creating a national origins quota system best known for...

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65 | Asian American Immigration and US Policy Winter 2022

History Now Essay

The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority

Madeline Y. Hsu

Government and Civics, World History

The United States harvested a bumper crop of good immigrants in 1955. About 1,000 highly educated Chinese gained citizenship, including acclaimed scientists, professionals, and entrepreneurs such as the architect I. M. Pei, the...

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65 | Asian American Immigration and US Policy Winter 2022

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Paul Escott - "Black Suffrage: Lincoln's Last Goal"

Government and Civics

Paul D. Escott is Reynolds Professor (Emeritus) of History at Wake Forest University. Order Black Suffrage at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you...

History Now Essay

Indians in the United States: Movements and Empire

Sherally K. Munshi

Until the turn of the twentieth century, there were relatively few restrictions on international migration. European imperialism and settler colonialism were sustained by mass migration—both the “free” migration of European settlers...

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65 | Asian American Immigration and US Policy Winter 2022

History Now Essay

From the Editor

Carol Berkin

Race and national origin, writes History Now contributor Madeline Y. Hsu, “have been the main determinants for legal immigration and citizenship.” Nowhere is this more evident than in the record of discrimination faced by Asians...

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65 | Asian American Immigration and US Policy Winter 2022

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2022 Winter Newsletter

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Inside the Vault: Black Enfranchisement and Education

Selected Gilder Lehrman Collection Items on Exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum Join us on Thursday, January 5, 2023, from 7 pm to 8 pm ET as our curators discuss documents from the exhibition Fighting to Learn: Black...

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Catherine Ceniza Choy - "Asian American Histories of the United States"

Geography

Catherine Ceniza Choy is a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Order Asian American Histories at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link...

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Inside the Vault: Black Enfranchisement and Education: Selected Gilder Lehrman Collection Items on Exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

On January 5, 2023, our curators discussed documents from the Morgan Library & Museum’s exhibition Fighting to Learn: Black Enfranchisement and Education in the Gilder Lehrman Collection . They were joined by Dr. Jesse Erickson,...

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Watch MA Students and Staff Discuss the Gettysburg College–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History

The application deadline to register for Spring 2023 courses in the Gettysburg College–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History is January 26, 2023. Please watch this informative recording of the past week's open house to hear teachers...

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Kostya Kennedy - "True: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson"

Art

Kostya Kennedy is the editorial director at Dotdash Meredith and a former senior writer at Sports Illustrated . Order The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every...

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Classroom and Parent Resources for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

On the third Monday of every January, the United States celebrates the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., the iconic Baptist minister and activist who became one of the most well-known leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. The first...

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Meet Five Student Advisory Council Members

Created in 2014, the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Student Advisory Council is a diverse group of high-achieving students in grades 8–12 with an interest in history. At monthly meetings, the Council provides valuable feedback on the...

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New History U Course for High School Students: Capitalism in American History

The Gilder Lehrman Institute’s History U lets high school students explore American history with top scholars—completely free of charge. Explore the latest addition to the History U catalog. Capitalism in American History Led by David...

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Erin Kelly and Patsy Rembert - "Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir to the Jim Crow South"

Art

Erin Kelly is a professor of philosophy at Tufts University and Patsy Rembert is a youth advocate and the wife of the artist Winfred Rembert. Order Chasing Me to My Grave at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate...

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