Video: Book Breaks Victoria Phillips - "Martha Graham's Cold War: The Dance of American Diplomacy" Order Martha Graham's Cold War at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks Alan Taylor - "American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873" World History Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Order American Civil Wars at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the...
Video Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and American Ways of War, Part 2: Grant Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Interactive The Right to Vote, Part 1: The Early Republic through the Civil War Government and Civics The Right to Vote: Part 1 The Early Republic through the Civil War Who could vote in the founding and Jacksonian eras? Scroll through to view the exhibition (above). Recorded readings of select components in the exhibition...
News US Decides to Send Troops to Korean War: On This Day, June 27 On June 27, 1950, President Truman announced that the US would be sending air and naval troops to Korea . The conflict on the other side of the world had begun two days before when North Korea invaded South Korea in an effort to unify...
Video Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and American Ways of War, Part 3: Marshall Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Spotlight on: Primary Source The Battle of Horseshoe Bend and the end of the Creek War, 1814 On May 12, 1814, Tennessee settler Isaac Stephens wrote to his uncle Henry Mackey in Virginia about the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in Alabama. In that battle on March 27, 1814, US Army and Tennessee militia troops under General Andrew...