News Playing ball for the troops: Yankees/Dodgers/Giants exhibition benefit game, 1943 There’s no denying the important role that baseball has played in America’s past. It has always been considered more than a game, whether played by professional athletes or kids at the sandlot. This was never more obvious than during...
News AJHS's Gemma Birnbaum on Sponsorship of the Making Modern America Teacher Seminar In our twenty-ninth year offering Teacher Seminars , the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is very pleased, once again, to welcome the sponsorship of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) for Making Modern America:...
Essay Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom Steven Mintz Government and Civics Frederick Douglass was one of the first fugitive slaves to speak out publicly against slavery. On the morning of August 12, 1841, he stood up at an anti-slavery meeting on Nantucket Island. With great power and eloquence, he described...