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Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America

Art, Literature

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Lafayette College historian Donald Miller discusses his new book, Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America, in an interview with the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. ...

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A Voyage Long and Strange

World History

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Award-winning author Tony Horwitz discusses the research and writing process for his book A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America (2008). ...

History Now Issue

The Revolutionary Age

#34 Winter 2012

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"One Last Time" from Hamilton

A performance of "One Last Time" from the Broadway musical Hamilton . Performed by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson, Sydney James Harcourt, and Ian Weinberger at the 2015 George Washington Prize dinner in New York City. ...

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Revisit Historic Elections

Catch up on presidential elections since 1789 with two Gilder Lehrman resources: The Electing the President Digital Exhibition and Interactive Timeline Then look for more of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Online Exhibitions and...

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Building Carnegie Hall, 1889

In early 1889, industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie was working on plans for a major music hall in New York City. On January 31, 1889, Carnegie wrote to Hiram Hitchcock, the owner of New York’s Fifth Avenue Hotel, to...

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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...

News

Close Out the Primaries with Our Electing the President Timeline

Take some time out from the 2016 election to explore our Electing the President timeline and fill up on facts from elections past. Then look for more of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Online Exhibition and Interactive Features . ...

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Happy New Year from the Gilder Lehrman Institute

This hand-drawn card comes from Horatio Loomis Wait’s papers in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Wait, from New York and Chicago, served in the US Navy from July 1862 through July 1870. His letters home often included sketches of mid...

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Seminar Application Confirmation

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