History Now Essay The Origins of the Transcontinental Railroad Richard White Economics, Geography, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math The completion in 1869 of the first transcontinental railroad—the Pacific Railway, as the combination of the Central Pacific and the Union Pacific was called—created two of the most iconic symbols in American history. The first is a... Appears in: 38 | The Joining of the Rails: The Transcontinental Railroad Winter 2014
About page 2020 Winter Newsletter Dear Teachers, Supporters, and Friends of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, I greet you at the end of a very successful 2019, looking forward to more in 2020. We have reached more than 24,000 Affiliate Schools in all fifty states and in...
About page 2020 New Year Newsletter - redirect Dear Teachers, Supporters, and Friends of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, I greet you at the end of a very successful 2019, looking forward to more in 2020. We have reached more than 24,000 Affiliate Schools in all fifty states and in...
Essay Admiration and Ambivalence: Frederick Douglass and John Brown David W. Blight Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ John Brown did not make it easy for people to love him—until he died on the gallows. Frederick Douglass, from his first meeting with Brown in 1847, through a testy but important relationship in the late 1850s, had long viewed the...
History Now Essay Reconstructing the West and North Richard White Economics, Government and Civics In 1865 the Radicals of the Republican Party regarded the Northern victory in the Civil War as a “golden moment” to remake the Republic. The Republicans controlled Congress, the Supreme Court, and, so they thought until Andrew Johnson... Appears in: 55 | Examining Reconstruction Fall 2019