News Teacher and Student Reunited through Pace–Gilder Lehrman American History MA Their lives had taken different paths in the years since Bruno Morlan Villafuerte sat in Shannon Rosenfeld’s first AP Government class thirteen years ago, but these paths converged in 2020 through the Gilder Lehrman Institute. Shannon...
History Now Essay Memorializing the Gravesites of Twentieth-Century African Americans Karla F. C. Holloway Excerpts reprinted by permission of Karla F. C. Holloway from her book Passed On: African American Mourning Stories (Duke University Press, 2003). I wandered for an hour trying to find Harriet Tubman (1913). I didn’t mind the time. I... Appears in: 62 | The Honored Dead: African American Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Burial Grounds Spring 2022
History Now Essay Diego de Gardoqui and the Beginnings of Spanish-American Diplomacy Elisa Vargas Born into a prominent Basque family on November 12, 1735, in the province of Vizcaya, Spain, Diego de Gardoqui was a treasured son of Don José Ignacio Gardoqui y Azpegorta and his wife Maria Simona. Groomed to be a banker, he was sent... Appears in: 68 | The Role of Spain in the American Revolution Fall 2023
Essay Using Works of Art in Teaching American History Daniel Walker Howe Art, World History The best teachers of Western Civilization courses have long made use of the European fine arts—painting, sculpture, architecture, the decorative arts—to bring the subject alive to their students. It is perhaps less well recognized...
Guided Readings Guided Readings: Origins of the Cold War and Soviet-American Confrontation Economics, Government and Civics, World History 9, 10, 11, 12 Reading 1 From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague,...
History Now Essay The Role of Jewish Americans in the Civil Rights Movement Cheryl Greenberg American Jews played an outsized role in the Civil Rights Movement, both in number and prominence. Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rabbi Joachim Prinz spoke at the 1963 March on Washington. Of... Appears in: 71 | The Jewish Legacy in American History Summer 2024
Collection Landing Page Search Tips for Using American History 1493–1945 Search Tips for Using American History 1493–1945 Sixty thousand documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection are available in the database American History, 1493–1945 . Here are some useful tips to help you search the database. Unsure...
History Now Essay "Nature’s Nation": The Hudson River School and American Landscape Painting, 1825–1876 Linda Ferber Art 8 Introduction The late nineteenth-century critic who first referred to a "Hudson River School" intended the nickname to be dismissive, describing artists whose style was old fashioned and whose American subjects were provincial. The... Appears in: 45 | American History in Visual Art Summer 2016