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History Now Essay

New Orleans and the History of Jazz

Loren Schoenberg

Art, Geography

5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

New Orleans is a city built in a location that was by any measure a mistake. North American settlers needed a way to import and export goods via the Mississippi River, so a city was created atop swamps. By virtue of its location and...

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11 | American Cities Spring 2007

History Now Issue

The Music and History of Our Times

#32 Summer 2012

Video

Anti-Federalism and Dissent in Constitutional History

Government and Civics

For our first live web chat for Affiliate Schools, Fordham University historian Saul Cornell joined Gilder Lehrman Institute President James Basker to discuss constitutional history and the modern-day implications of dissent in the...

Program/Event

Gettysburg College–Gilder Lehrman Institute History Scholarship

The Gilder Lehrman Institute and Gettysburg College are pleased to offer the Gettysburg College–Gilder Lehrman Institute History Scholarship. Each year, Gettysburg College will provide two scholarships at $5,000 per year for four...

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Manuscript document

1783-1815

[Detailing the history of the Waldo Patent] [Fragment]

Document describing the early history of the ownership of the Waldo Patent. Written after 1762.

GLC02437.09296

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9 October 1805

Knox, Henry, 1750-1806

[History of recent ownership of the Waldo Patent]

Statement detailing the history of how Knox came to be in possesion of the Waldo patent.

GLC02437.09284

Collection Item

30 June 1744

Prince, Thomas, 1687-1758

The Christian history. [Vol. 2, no. 70]

Contains accounts of the current religious revival in Great Britain and the American colonies.

GLC08819

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Document signed

1759

Warren, James, 1726-1808

The Modern part of an universal history

Title page (only) from a book in Warren's library, signed.

GLC07264

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Document signed

29 November 1760

Livingston, Philip, 1716-1778

[Bill of sale for two enslaved women named Hannah and Jen]

Bill of sale for two enslaved women named Hannah and Jen. The sale documents Philip Livingston as the seller. Jen's age is listed as 24 years old. They were sold for 100 pounds in New York currency to Rieneer Van Giesen. Cosigned by his son Philip...

GLC01775

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1866

The New Orleans riot. Its official history.

Opens with the statement "It was no Riot- It was an Absolute Massacre by the Police- A Murder Perpetrated by the Mayor." Includes dispatches pertaining to the riot from Albert Voorhies, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana; Andrew Herron, Louisiana...

GLC06232.08