History Now Essay From the Editor Carol Berkin In this issue, HISTORY NOW looks at the efforts by women across two centuries to gain the right to vote and to enjoy equal opportunities within American society. The women’s rights movement, like the struggle by African Americans to... Appears in: 7 | Women's Suffrage Spring 2006
Spotlight on: Primary Source Lucy Knox on the home front during the Revolutionary War, 1777 Like many others before and after her, Lucy Knox performed a continuous juggling act as a busy wife and mother. Born into an aristocratic family, she had the advantage of a good education. At the age of seventeen she was disowned by...
Video Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom Catherine Clinton, professor of US history at Queen’s University Belfast, has wrtten or edited more than twenty historical books for both children and adults, including The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South and I,...
Program/Event Affiliate School Program | Monthly Affiliate School Offer Every month, the Gilder Lehrman Institute sends a special offer to teachers in our Affiliate School Program for free high-impact, classroom-ready materials, free professional development opportunities, and more. Through this offer, we...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Civilian Conservation Corps poster, 1938 Art, Economics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The Civilian Conservation Corps directly addressed two of the most pressing problems during the Depression: male youth unemployment and environmental degradation. The CCC, based on a military model of everyday life, put thousands of...
History Now Essay From the Editor Carol Berkin The Declaration of Independence was written to explain the just causes for the Americans’ break with their mother country. In it, Thomas Jefferson carefully listed the American grievances against the king, creating a catalogue of... Appears in: 63 | The Declaration of Independence and the Long Struggle for Equality in America Summer 2022
History Now Essay A Local and National Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Postwar Washington, DC Wendell E. Pritchett Government and Civics 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The history of the Civil Rights Movement is the story of numerous grassroots campaigns loosely coordinated and assisted by a small number of national organizations. Every local struggle had its own actors, issues, and nuances, and all... Appears in: 8 | The Civil Rights Movement Summer 2006 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
Lesson Plan The Supreme Court, Title IX and Gender Equity Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Background The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the federal judicial system and has both original and appellate jurisdiction. Historically, the Supreme Court’s most influential role has been through the...