Video Understanding Slavery via Narratives Literature James Oliver Horton speaks about slave narratives as an important resource for understanding American history.
Video: Read Along "Before She Was Harriet" This lush, lyrical biography in verse begins with a glimpse of Harriet Tubman as an old woman, and travels back in time through the many roles she played through her life: spy, liberator, suffragist, and more. Illustrated by James...
Spotlight on: Primary Source The death of enslaved Africans on a voyage, 1725 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Slavery in English America underwent profound changes during the first two centuries of settlement. During the early seventeenth century, some Black laborers were enslaved; others, however, were treated like White indentured servants...
History Now Essay When the Past Speaks to the Present: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Annette Gordon-Reed Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History and a professor of history at Harvard University. Her books include The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family (2008), which received the Pulitzer... Appears in: 2 | Primary Sources on Slavery Winter 2004 57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020
News Inside the Vault in June: The March toward Equality from 1788 to 1963 This June on Inside the Vault , the online program that highlights unique primary sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, we trace the movement of civil rights from one of its most iconic moments to far earlier efforts in previous...