About page Announcing Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks: Live Discussions with Eminent Historians on Sunday Afternoons NEW YORK, NY (May 8, 2020) -- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History today announced the start of Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks , an online Sunday afternoon program that features the most exciting historians in America...
News Classroom and Parent Resources for Thanksgiving The Plymouth colonists and the Wampanoags shared an autumn harvest feast in 1621 that served as the basis for what we now celebrate as Thanksgiving. Though it continued to be celebrated, first across the colonies and then the United...
History Now Essay Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Matter of Influence Hollis Robbins Literature 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ One hundred years after Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852, the poet Langston Hughes called the novel, "the most cussed and discussed book of its time." Hughes’s observation is particularly apt in that it avoids... Appears in: 16 | Books That Changed History Summer 2008