News Study Black Women's History in Online MA Summer Course with Professor Kellie Carter Jackson of Wellesley College The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Pace University are pleased to announce that registration for Summer 2020 courses is open for the online Master of Arts in American History Program. We highlight here one of the six...
News Meet the 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History have announced the finalists for the twenty-fifth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize ....
Classroom Resources Historical Context: The First National Census Economics, Geography, Government and Civics 6, 7, 8 Early in August 1790, David Howe, an assistant federal marshal, began the difficult task of counting all the people who lived in Hancock County, Maine. One of 650 federal census takers, charged with making "a...perfect enumeration.....
News Announcing the Summer 2022 Issue of HISTORY NOW: The Declaration of Independence and the Long Struggle for Equality in America The Summer 2022 issue of History Now , " The Declaration of Independence and the Long Struggle for Equality in America ," illustrates the ways in which the centuries-long struggle of African Americans, women, and others to achieve...
Video: Read Along "The Voice That Won the Vote: How One Woman's Words Made History" In August of 1920, women’s suffrage in America came down to the vote in Tennessee. If the Tennessee legislature approved the Nineteenth Amendment it would be ratified, giving American women the right to vote. The historic moment came...
History Now Essay From the Editor Our Summer 2017 issue looks at the two great musical traditions that come out of the African American culture of the South: jazz and the blues. These uniquely American genres are known throughout the world and, although they began... Appears in: 48 | Jazz, the Blues, and American Identity Summer 2017
History Now Essay From The Editor Carol Berkin Urbanization is a major theme in modern American history and it is intimately connected to such events as the revolutions in transportation and manufacturing and the expansion of our borders to the Pacific Ocean and the Rio Grande. In... Appears in: 11 | American Cities Spring 2007
Classroom Resources Statistics: The Growth of Cities Economics, Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math 9, 10, 11, 12 Urban Growth Number of Cities 1860 1900 100,000-499,999 7 32 500,000 or more 2 6 Percent of Total Population 1860 1900 100,000-499,999 4% 8% 500,000 or more 4% 11% Questions for Discussion What factors contributed to the growth of...