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Gilder Lehrman Institute Holds Inaugural Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College Summer of 2022

NEW YORK, New York , February 15, 2022 – The Gilder Lehrman Institute is pleased to announce our return to large-scale, in-person programming with our upcoming special event, the Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College....

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The History of Race Relations in America: African American Experiences, 1492-1877

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"Your Late Lamented Husband": A Letter from Frederick Douglass to Mary Todd Lincoln

David W. Blight

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

On March 4, 1865, Frederick Douglass attended President Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration. Standing in the crowd, Douglass heard Lincoln declare slavery the "cause" and emancipation the "result" of the Civil War. Over the crisp...

History Now Essay

Expelling the Poor: The Antebellum Origins of American Deportation Policy

Hidetaka Hirota

Dehumanizing insults to foreigners, aggressive enforcement of immigration law by overzealous officials, and tragic family separation routinely appear in immigration-related news in the United States today. At the center of the present...

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52 | The History of US Immigration Laws Fall 2018

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Augustus R. & Miller Wright archive: Confederate turncoat [partially decimalized .01-.12]

1858-1900

Wright, Family, fl. 1858-1900

This collection comprises personal and military correspondence relating to U.S., and later Confederate, congressman Augustus Wright and his son Miller, both Southerners with Unionist sympathies. Topics include battles (including First Manassas)...

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