News Staff Picks from the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop: Daniel and Nathaniel This holiday season the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s staff is recommending their favorite books, which can be purchased from the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop . Over the next four weeks, we will feature GLI staff members explaining why they...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Dwight D. Eisenhower's Views on Vietnam in 1967 and 1968 Government and Civics On October 6, 2022, our curators discussed documents pertaining to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s views on Vietnam in 1967 and 1968. They were joined by Professor Michael J. Birkner of Gettysburg College, who described Eisenhower’s evolving...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Massachusetts 54th 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On July 18, 1863, the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry led an assault against Battery Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina. The battle demonstrated the bravery and fierce determination of African American soldiers even though...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: D-Day in maps and letters from soldiers and families Geography, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On June 2, 2022, our curators discussed D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. They were joined by Professor Michael Neiberg, Chair of War Studies at the US Army War College, who gave an overview of the battle and...
History Now Essay Winning the Vote: A History of Voting Rights Steven Mintz Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Voting Rights on the Eve of the Revolution The basic principle that governed voting in colonial America was that voters should have a "stake in society." Leading colonists associated democracy with disorder and mob rule, and believed... Appears in: 1 | Elections Fall 2004
News Introducing Soldier Spotlight: A Confederate Soldier Speaks The Gilder Lehrman Collection contains more than 15,000 letters written by servicemen from the American Revolution through World War II. These personal letters, largely unpublished, capture the experience of the common soldier and his...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Discovering a mass grave in Iraq, 2003 Mark Rickert wrote this email while serving as a journalist with the 372nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment in Iraq. On this day, he and his group were investigating rumors of a mass grave. The letter is written to his grandfather,...
History Now Essay “In the Name of America’s Future”: The Fraught Passage of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act Maddalena Marinari Government and Civics Senator Patrick McCarran (D−NV) was seething after Congress renewed the 1948 Displaced Persons Act in 1950. Incensed, McCarran wrote to his daughter: “I met the enemy and he took me on the DP bill. It’s tough to beat a million or more... Appears in: 52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018