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Introducing Christopher Raso, the 2018 Arizona History Teacher of the Year

Christopher Raso Arizona History Teacher of the Year Award Winner Since 2004, 749 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US...

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Introducing Martene Campbell, the 2018 Arkansas History Teacher of the Year

Martene Campbell Arkansas History Teacher of the Year Since 2004, 749 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US territories...

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The National History Teacher of the Year 2018 is Joe Welch

Meet Joseph Welch, 2018 National History Teacher of the Year Joseph Welch is a seventh and eighth grade social studies teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He has been the curriculum chair and project...

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Bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 1963

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

On the morning of September 15, 1963, Denise McNair (age 11), Addie Mae Collins (age 14), Cynthia Wesley (age 14), and Carole Robertson (age 14) were killed when nineteen sticks of dynamite exploded at the Sixteenth Street Baptist...

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Civil Rights Leader C. Herbert Oliver Recalls His Report on the Bombing of Birmingham’s Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in 1963

Just five days after the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963, Reverend C. Herbert Oliver wrote a report on Birmingham in the form of a letter, circulated nationwide on behalf of...

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Announcing the 2018 History Teacher of the Year: Joseph Welch

PITTSBURGH MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER JOSEPH WELCH NAMED 2018 NATIONAL HISTORY TEACHER OF THE YEAR __________ Award Sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Among Most Prestigious for History Educators NEW YORK, NY ...

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Cathal Nolan Wins Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History

Winner of the Fifth Annual Prize Announced Award Program on Monday, November 26, 2018, at the New-York Historical Society New York, NY, September 19, 2018 – The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Cathal...

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Introducing Daniel Jocz, the 2018 California History Teacher of the Year

Daniel Jocz California History Teacher of the Year Since 2004, 749 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US territories...

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Fall 2018 Newsletter

A Message from President Jim Basker Dear Teachers, Supporters, and Friends of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, I am pleased to present an exciting new edition of the Gilder Lehrman Institute Newsletter, which will come to you three times...

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Catching Up on Affiliate Schools with Education Department Coordinator Daniel Pecoraro

The Education Department: Daniel Pecoraro Daniel Pecoraro is an education program coordinator at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. He is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Affiliate School Program, a...

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Kennedy, Nixon, and Eisenhower Write to Jackie Robinson about Civil Rights

Jackie Robinson and the Presidents The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has acquired a fascinating collection of correspondence from Presidents Nixon, Eisenhower, and Kennedy to baseball legend and prominent civil rights...

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US Immigration since 1850: A Statistical and Visual Timeline

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Introducing LeAnn Cassidy, the 2018 Connecticut History Teacher of the Year

LeAnn Cassidy Connecticut History Teacher of the Year Since 2004, 749 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US territories...

History Now Essay

From the Editor

Carol Berkin

Welcome to the sixth issue of HISTORY NOW. I am pleased to announce that HISTORY NOW was recently selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities for inclusion on EDSITEment (http://edsitement.neh.gov) as one of the best online...

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6 | Lincoln Winter 2005

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Introducing Javier Ergueta, the 2018 Delaware History Teacher of the Year

Javier Ergueta Delaware History Teacher of the Year Since 2004, 749 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US territories...

History Now Essay

Immigration Policy, Mexican Americans, and Undocumented Immigrants, 1954 to the Present

Eladio Bobadilla

Government and Civics

In 1953, a pamphlet ominously tilted What Price Wetbacks? circulated widely throughout the American Southwest. Its authors warned that a “wetback invasion” was underway, one that posed “a threat to our health, our economy, [and] our...

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52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018

History Now Issue

The History of US Immigration Laws

#52 Fall 2018

History Now Essay

The 1965 Immigration Act: Opening the Nation to Immigrants of Color

Tom Gjelten

Government and Civics

Americans might think their country has always been open to all, but until 1965 people who were not white or did not come from northern or western Europe were not welcomed as immigrants. Only with the passage that year of a new...

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52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute presents Joe Welch with the 2018 National History Teacher of the Year Award

On October 10, 2018, in the Grand Ballroom at the Yale Club in New York City, Joseph Welch of North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, PA was formally presented with the 2018 National History Teacher of the Year Award. At the event,...

History Now Essay

Immigrants and the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798

Terri Diane Halperin

Americans were on edge in the spring and summer of 1798. War and revolution were raging in Europe; Ireland was rebelling against England; and France was continuing its attacks on American ships. Although the Jay Treaty, which went...

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52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018

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2018 Library Affiliate Program Grants Announced

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is pleased to announce another successful round of the Library Affiliate Program Grant. Gilder Lehrman Library Affiliates across the country applied for a $400 grant to host one K–12...

History Now Essay

The Dillingham Commission and the “Immigration Question,” 1907−1921

Robert Zeidel

Government and Civics

The Dillingham Commission played a pivotal role in the formation of American immigration policy, notably the establishment of general exclusion as an overarching principle. Created by Congress in 1907 as a compromise between...

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52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018

History Now Essay

“In the Name of America’s Future”: The Fraught Passage of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act

Maddalena Marinari

Government and Civics

Senator Patrick McCarran (D−NV) was seething after Congress renewed the 1948 Displaced Persons Act in 1950. Incensed, McCarran wrote to his daughter: “I met the enemy and he took me on the DP bill. It’s tough to beat a million or more...

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52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018

History Now Essay

The History of US Immigration Laws: What Students Should Know

Jane Hong

Government and Civics

The history of US immigration laws can be boiled down to a single question: Who gets to be an American and who does not? This question encompasses who can immigrate to the country, who can stay, and who can become naturalized. We...

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52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018

History Now Essay

Expelling the Poor: The Antebellum Origins of American Deportation Policy

Hidetaka Hirota

Dehumanizing insults to foreigners, aggressive enforcement of immigration law by overzealous officials, and tragic family separation routinely appear in immigration-related news in the United States today. At the center of the present...

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52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018

History Now Essay

From the Editor

Carol Berkin

In this issue, our scholars have taken on the difficult task of examining America’s immigration policies across the centuries. From their essays we learn that modern debates over exclusion, restriction, and deportation are not new;...

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52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018

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Anti-Communist Trading Cards, 1951

Government and Civics

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

On June 25, 1950, war broke out on the Korean peninsula when the Soviet-backed Communist forces in North Korea invaded the recently founded democratic republic of South Korea. Following a unanimous UN resolution condemning the...

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National History Day Resources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection

National History Day engages more than half a million students around the world in historical research on a topic of their choosing. Students submit those projects at local and state/affiliate contests, with top students advancing to...

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Introducing Bill Stevens, the 2018 District of Columbia History Teacher of the Year

Bill Stevens District of Columbia History Teacher of the Year Since 2004, 749 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US...

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The Gilder Lehrman Institute Hosts David Blight Book Talk at Pace University

On Friday, October 19, the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Pace University hosted a book talk and signing with Professor David Blight, award-winning historian and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance...

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Introducing Michelle Mar, the 2018 Florida History Teacher of the Year

Michelle Mar Florida History Teacher of the Year Since 2004, 749 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US territories have...

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Delving into HISTORY NOW Past and Present with Managing Editor Nicole Seary

The Publications Department: Nicole Seary Nicole Seary is Senior Editor at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the managing editor of History Now , the Institute’s online journal. Published three times a year, History...

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[Associated Press Photograph of Two Men Arrested After New York Race Riot]

2 August 1943

Associated Press

Photograph from Associated Press showing New York police leading two African American men to the police station. One of them men is injured. Caption explains that the men were captured by police after a night of street fights between the police and...

GLC0733.01

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[80 World War II Los Angeles Times maps]

1942-1945

Los Angeles Times

80 World War II Los Angeles Times maps.

GLC09619.01

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[World War II newspaper clippings and magazines]

1942-1945

Los Angeles Times

World War II newspaper clippings and magazines. 7 items in Size 1, 18 in Size 2, 10 in Size 3, and 2 in oversize.

GLC09619.02

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Traveling Exhibitions | Frequently Asked Questions

General Exhibition FAQ How can I pay? We can accept credit card, check, or purchase order. We cannot accept bank transfers at this time. Do you offer any discounts or grants? Unfortunately, we aren’t able to offer any discounts or...

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State Winners

State Winners Since 2004, committees in each state have selected a State Teacher of the Year from among the nominated teachers. Please choose a year below to view the State Teachers for that year. 2017 STATE WINNERS 2016 STATE WINNERS...

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Library Programs | Frequently Asked Questions

GENERAL What is the Library Affiliate Program? The Library Affiliate Program recognizes public and university academic libraries as centers for American history learning for students and teachers and offers a range of free resources,...

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Library Programs | Library Affiliate Web Portal

As a member of the Library Affiliate Program, you have access to valuable resources for librarians, teachers, and students, including: RESOURCES developed for K–12 school students, such as a study guide for the AP US History test FREE...

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Grant-Funded Programs

The Gilder Lehrman Institute is currently engaged in two national, library-based programs made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. World War I and America World War I and America marks the 100th...

History Now Essay

The Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail

Christopher L. Miller

Sometimes excavating American history involves more virtual digging than it does plying the soil with trowels. Sometimes it’s less about reassembling broken pottery than it is about reassembling broken information that’s buried just...

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49 | Excavating American History Fall 2017

History Now Essay

Historical Archaeology, Kingsley Plantation, and the Construction of Past Time

James M. Davidson

Archaeology is the study of the past—people and everything they were, their public acts and private hopes—or at least it is an earnest attempt to “construct” this past through a meticulous examination of material objects, the greater...

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49 | Excavating American History Fall 2017

History Now Essay

Archaeology as History in the North Cascades Mountains

Robert R. Mierendorf

The North Cascades Mountains have a reputation as being steeper and more snow covered than most other mountains of the far western United States. Native people (also “American Indians” or “Native Americans”) thrived in these mountains...

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49 | Excavating American History Fall 2017

History Now Essay

The Archaeological Excavation of the Stadt Huys Block in Lower Manhattan

Nan A. Rothschild and Diana diZerega Wall

The first large-scale archaeological excavation in New York City took place in the Wall Street district in 1979–1980. The project came about when the developers of the office building that became the headquarters of Goldman Sachs had...

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49 | Excavating American History Fall 2017

History Now Issue

Excavating American History

#49 Fall 2017

History Now Essay

From the Editor

Carol Berkin

All historians are at heart detectives, carefully sifting through the records of the past we find in archives, museums, and sometimes musty attics. But letters, diaries, and speeches are far from the only sources that provide us the...

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49 | Excavating American History Fall 2017

6 | Lincoln Winter 2005

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Hamilton Education Program | How to Participate in the Hamilton Education Program

Thank you for your interest in the Hamilton Education Program. The Hamilton Education Program is an in-person program for Title I–eligible high schools. The program will resume in 2022 in New York City. The curriculum and resources...

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Hamilton Education Program | About the Hamilton Education Program

In October 2015, Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Rockefeller Foundation, the NYC Department of Education, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute announced an educational partnership to provide...

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Hamilton Education Program | Press Coverage and Media

Eduham in the News 2022 "‘Hamilton’ Returns to Pantages Theatre With Performance for L.A. Public High School Students" in Variety - February 11, 2022 "HAMILTON's Celebrated Education Program Returns Today in LA" in Broadway World -...

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Gilder Lehrman Resources Related to World War I and America

Below is a list of Gilder Lehrman resources related to World War I and America . Click on the link to view the resource. Please visit www.WWIAmerica.org for complete project information and resources. Timeline and Exhibition World War...