News A Christmas V-Mail from World War II V-mail, or Victory Mail, was a WWII-era operation to expedite mail service for Americans serving overseas. V-mail was written on standardized stationery, photographed onto 16mm microfilm, transported to the US or other destination,...
News Pace–Gilder Lehrman MA Spotlight: “World War II” The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Pace University offer a Master of Arts in American History through online courses for K–12 educators. Applications are now open. Click here to apply. Course Spotlight: World War II...
History Now Essay Race and the Good War: An Oral History Interview with Calvin D. Cosby, World War II Veteran Cecelia Hartsell World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Calvin D. Cosby was born in 1918, in Knoxville, Tennessee, which was my hometown as well. I first knew Calvin Cosby as the husband of my beloved second-grade teacher, Mrs. Ima Bradford Cosby. Mr. and Mrs. Cosby and their daughter... Appears in: 43 | Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam Fall 2015 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
News Civil War soldiers: Thomas Burpee and his sons The Gilder Lehrman Collection has more than 10,000 letters written by soldiers during the American Civil War, and when you read dozens or even hundreds of letters by the same person, it is very much like reality television. You become...