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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...

Today is National Friendship Day, and to celebrate, we’re showcasing a vivid letter from the Gilder Lehrman Collection that shows the enduring strength of friendship forged in war. In January 1784, the Marquis de Lafayette , back home...

The Gilder Lehrman Institute is excited to announce Hamilton Cast Read Alongs , a new program that features Hamilton original and touring cast members reading award-winning children's books of their choosing. Each book selected has...

On January 10 historians Carol Berkin and Denver Brunsman, community leader Farah Jimenez, and the Constitutional Sources Project’s executive director, Julie Silverbrook, gathered for a town hall at the National Constitution Center in...

On March 5, 1770, tensions in the American colonies culminated with an armed skirmish between British troops and American colonists in Boston. Although the American Revolution did not begin in earnest until five years later, the...

As the nation approached the third year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are...

In partnership with World101 from the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), we are pleased to offer four free digital professional development sessions and a symposium in spring 2021. On MARCH 6 the first workshop on American...

On July 24, 1959, at the height of the Cold War , Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and Vice President Richard Nixon held a "Kitchen Debate." Since the end of WWII, the Soviet Union and United States had been locked in a fierce battle...