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Autograph letter signed

to Henry Knox Craig

21 October 1868

Hunt, Henry Jackson, 1819-1889

Hopes Craig will consider spending future summers in Eastport, if he (Hunt) remains stationed there. Discusses the upcoming presidential election (won by Ulysses S. Grant). "So the October Elections are over and we are beaten on all the fields - This...

GLC02382.044

Essay

The Gilded Age

T. Jackson Lears

When I was a college student in the late 1960s, the most popular US history courses were the ones that covered the Gilded Age. They promised to illuminate the origins of urgent contemporary problems. Their canvas was broad and filled...

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The Pace-Gilder Lehrman MA in American History Spring 2022 Courses

The Pace–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History Program is a fully online, fully accredited, 30-credit degree program. Following the completion of ten 3-credit courses, including the required Historiography and Historical Methods...

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2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Recipient Announced

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Gettysburg College announced today that Caroline E. Janney , author of Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee’s Army after Appomattox (The University of North Carolina Press), is...

Essay

The Failure of Compromise

Bruce Levine

Government and Civics

K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

In the spring of 1861, the United States of America split into two hostile countries—the United States and the new Confederate States of America. The two opposing heads of state agreed about what was causing the rupture—the long...