History Now Essay The Other Theater: The War for American Independence beyond the Colonies Patrick Spero Geography, World History After the British signed the peace treaty that ended the American War for Independence in 1783, the City of London decided to commission a work of art to commemorate the conflict. The city’s representatives approached John Singleton... Appears in: 34 | The Revolutionary Age Winter 2012
History Now Essay Fighting for Democracy in World War I—Overseas and Over Here Maurice Jackson Maurice Jackson is Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. He is the author of Let This Voice Be Heard: Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism (2009), and the co-editor of... Appears in: 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020 46 | African American Soldiers Fall 2016
History Now Essay Fighting against the Odds: Black Soldiers in the Second World War John H. Morrow, Jr. John H. Morrow, Jr. , is Franklin Professor of History at the University of Georgia. He taught for seventeen years at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where, in 1971, he became the first African American faculty member in the... Appears in: 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020 46 | African American Soldiers Fall 2016
News A Civil War soldier’s letters: "Save them if it cost the farm" George Tillotson from Greene, New York, enlisted with the 89th New York Infantry in November of 1861. This ambrotype (photograph made on glass) and a series of letters from the summer of 1862 remind us that soldiers and their families...
History Now Essay The Diary of Ella Jane Osborn, World War I US Army Nurse Susan F. Saidenberg World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The unpublished diary of Ella Jane Osborn (1881–1966) in the Gilder Lehrman Collection opens an extraordinary window into the daily experiences of one American woman stationed in a US Army hospital in a dangerous and contested battle... Appears in: 43 | Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam Fall 2015
Spotlight on: Primary Source The World War II experience of Robert L. Stone, 1942–1945 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Lieutenant Robert “Bob” Stone served as a bombardier in the 431st Bomb Squadron (Heavy), 7th United States Army Air Force in the Pacific during World War II. Born on December 19, 1921 in New York City, Bob was a nineteen-year-old...
News The Cold War Moves to the Kitchen: On This Day, 1959 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...