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Join Us This Summer for an Inspiring Educational Journey at Gettysburg College

The Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College , running from July 7 to July 10, 2024, is a four-day residential program that allows K–12 educators to collaborate with other passionate educators, explore innovative...

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Announcing the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Finalists

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize: Frank J. Cirillo , The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union ...

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Veterans Legacy Program | Student Contest

Student Contest The 2024 World War II: Portraits of Service Awards Submit an original essay, report, eulogy, poem, song, mini-podcast, or mini-documentary profiling the sacrifices, strengths, and legacies of a World War II Veteran who was honorably...

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Veterans Legacy Project | Rules and Guidelines for the 2024 World War II Portraits of Service Awards

Student Contest Rules and Guidelines 2024 World War II Portraits of Service Awards This contest has closed. Contest Rules: Overview The 2023–2024 VLP student Award Contest (“ Contest ”) is designed to celebrate outstanding...

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Diego Javier Luis - "The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History"

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Diego Javier Luis is an assistant professor of history at Tufts University. Order The First Asians in the Americas at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided....

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Jeffrey Rosen - "The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America"

Government and Civics

Jeffrey Rosen is a legal scholar who serves as the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center and a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School. Order The Pursuit of Happiness at the Gilder Lehrman Book...

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Announcing the 2024 EduHam Online Competition and Lottery Winners

In partnership with Hamilton , we are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Hamilton Education Program Online (EduHam Online) competition and lottery. EduHam Online provides students in grades 6 through 12 with a free, tailored...

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Hamilton and the Gilder Lehrman Institute Announce 2024 EduHam Winners from Middle and High Schools across the Nation

The annual educational initiative empowers students to explore history through original performances, with the added opportunity to see Hamilton on Broadway NEW YORK – February 28, 2024 – Hamilton and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of...

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2024 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Recipients Announced

March 1, 2024 — The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant , co-authors of Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era (Oxford University Press), are...

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Bruce Henderson - "Bridge to the Sun: The Secret Role of the Japanese Americans Who Fought in the Pacific in World War II"

Bruce Henderson is an American journalist and author of more than thirty nonfiction books, including a #1 New York Times bestseller. Order The Bridge to the Sun at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from...

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Brooke Barbier - "King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father"

Government and Civics

Brooke Barbier is a public historian and independent scholar with a doctorate in American history from Boston College. Order King Hancock at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through...

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Kenneth Chenault

Ken Chenault is the chairman and a managing director of the venture capital firm General Catalyst. From 2001 to 2018, Ken was chairman and CEO of American Express. Upon his retirement from American Express, Warren Buffett, the company...

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Richard Webster

Rich Webster was born and raised in Altadena, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. He received a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School. He started his career working for Morgan Stanley in New...

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An Introduction to the History of Feminism

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An Introduction to the History of the Evangelical Movement

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An Introduction to the History of the Rainbow Coalition and the Young Lords

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An Introduction to the History of the Zoot Suit Riots

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An Introduction to the History of Women and Gender Roles in Indigenous Societies

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An Introduction to the History of Migration and Settlement in North America

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Jack Cleveland Montgomery: Peace to War and Back Again

Tom Holm

Few combat veterans have seemingly overcome the trauma that comes with their terrifying, horrific experiences. Most, in fact, suffer from the mild to severe effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and undergo flashbacks,...

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The Life and Death of Roger Romine: A Tuskegee Airman Gone Too Soon

Lisa Bratton

The Tuskegee Airmen were an elite group of African American pilots and support personnel who fought in World War II. Their relevance in the African American struggle for equality and respect cannot be overstated. During World War II,...

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Inside the Vault: The Overland Trail

Geography, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

What was life like along the Overland Trail in the 1820s? What hardships did travelers face? On March 7, 2024 our curators were joined by Dr. Sarah Keyes (University of Nevada, Reno) to discuss letters from people on the Trail. View...

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The New AP US History Study Guide Is Here!

The Gilder Lehrman Institute’s AP US History (APUSH) Study Guide has been helping students and teachers prepare for the APUSH exam for years. But, as you know, the College Board announced several changes for the 2024 exam, scheduled...

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How to SAQ, Part I | AP US History Study Guide

9, 10, 11, 12

How to SAQ: Part I Learn how to respond to Short-Answer Questions about secondary and text-based primary sources.

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How to SAQ, Part II | AP US History Study Guide

How to SAQ: Part II Learn how to respond to Short-Answer Questions about image-based primary sources and non-stimulus-based questions.

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How to DBQ | AP US History Study Guide

How to DBQ Learn how to respond to the Document-Based Essay Question.

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How to MCQ | AP US History Study Guide

How to MCQ Learn test-taking strategies to answer Multiple-Choice Questions.

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How to LEQ | AP US History Study Guide

9, 10, 11, 12

How to LEQ Learn how to respond to the Long-Essay Question.

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The Early Republic

The Early Republic Led by : Prof. Alan Taylor (University of Virginia) Course Number : AMHI 630 Semesters : Summer 2024 Image: Joseph Laing, Inauguration of Gen. George Washington , published by William Blackman, New York, NY, ca. 1870s (The Gilder...

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The American West

The American West Led by : Prof. Elliott West (University of Arkansas) Course Number : AMHI 632 Semesters : Spring 2020, Summer 2022, Summer 2024 Image : William Hicks Jackson, Walpi Pueblo First Hopi Mesa, Arizona (The Gilder Lehrman Institute,...

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The History of American Protest

The History of American Protest Led by : Prof. John Stauffer (Harvard University) Course Number : AMHI 691 Semesters : Fall 2019, Summer 2021, Summer 2024 Image: Warren K. Leffler, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963 (Library...

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Reconstruction and Resistance

Reconstruction and Resistance: Constructing a Nation Led by : Prof. Kermit Roosevelt III (University of Pennsylvania) Course Number : AMHI 646 Semesters : Summer 2024 Image: Engraving of five African American members of Congress, ca. 1870 (The...

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World War I

World War I (A Six-Week Compressed Course, Term I) Led by : Prof. Michael Neiberg (US Army War College) Course Number : AMHI 655 Semesters : Summer 2017, Summer 2020, Summer 2022, Summer 2024 (Term I) Image: Adolph Treidler, For Every Fighter a...

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World War II

World War II (A Six-Week Compressed Course, Term II) Led by : Prof. Michael Neiberg (US Army War College) Course Number : AMHI 656 Semesters : Fall 2018, Summer 2020, Summer 2022, Summer 2024 (Term II) Image: A photograph of President Franklin D....

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Black Women's History

Black Women's History (A Six-Week Compressed Course, Term II) Led by : Prof. Kellie Carter Jackson (Wellesley College) Course Number : AMHI 675 Semesters : Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Spring 2023, Summer 2024 (Term II) Image: Shirley Chisholm campaign...

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Dora Dougherty Strother McKeown, Women Airforce Service Pilot in World War II

Katherine Sharp Landdeck

When Dora Dougherty Strother McKeown was just a kid she couldn’t wait for Sunday. For every Sunday her entire family would climb into their old Oakland motor car and drive to the airport to spend the day watching planes fly. It had...

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An Introduction to Gilder Lehrman Curricular Programs | Summer PD 2024

An Introduction to Gilder Lehrman Curricular Programs Date and Time: July 17, 3:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. ET Register Now About This Session The Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Teaching Literacy through History, Teaching Civics through...

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Introducing MA+15/30, a New Graduate Course Option for K–12 Educators

You’ve earned your master’s degree, but like all great teachers, you never stop looking for ways to expand your knowledge and bring deeper levels of learning to your students. The challenge is finding a high-quality, fully accredited,...

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"Courage to Face the Unknown": The World War II Service and Legacy of Celina Baez Sotomayor

Elizabeth R. Escobedo

During the 1940s hundreds of thousands of American women left their hometowns to serve in the Women’s Army Corps (WAC), a US Army unit created in World War II to enable women to serve in noncombat positions and “free a man to fight.” ...

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History Now Issue

World War II: Portraits of Service

#70 Spring 2024

History Now Essay

Harry Katsuharu Fukuhara: A Life of Service in War and Peace

Pamela Rotner Sakamoto

Harry peered at the document aboard the transport ship bound for the Pacific. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had written to the American troops, “Upon the outcome depends the freedom of your lives: the freedom of the lives of...

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Sarah Keyes - "American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail"

Geography

Sarah Keyes is an assistant professor of history at the University of Nevada. Order American Burial Ground at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you...

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From the Editor

Carol Berkin

This issue of History Now is supported by the Veterans Legacy Grant Program, an initiative of the Department of Veterans Affairs. For most Americans, the sacrifices made by the men and women in the military services command respect...

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Remembering Gilder Lehrman Trustee Daniel P. Jordan (1938–2024)

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is saddened by the loss of Daniel P. Jordan, a longtime trustee of the Institute, Scholar in Residence at the University of Virginia, and leader of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at...

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Donald L. Miller and Kirk Saduski - "Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War against Nazi Germany"

Government and Civics

Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College. Kirk Saduski is an award-winning producer. Order Masters of the Air at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission...

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Free Speech in US History, 1917-1988

Government and Civics

6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Click here to download the middle school lesson unit. Click here to download the high school lesson unit.

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Harold Holzer - "Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration"

Government and Civics

Harold Holzer is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War era. He serves as Jonathan F. Fanton Director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College. Order Brought Forth on...

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#mygli25 Posts Keep Coming

You don't have to be a teacher to make a #mygli25 video, but it can't hurt. Simply record and post up to a 30-second video on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram using the hashtag #MyGLI25 and we’ll do the rest. Enjoy the latest posts...

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Morgan DeMartis and Cassidy Hooker Move into New Roles at the Gilder Lehrman Insitute

Looking to the Future from the Front Lines of GLI: What’s on the Horizon for Cassidy Hooker and Morgan DeMartis Upon entering the Gilder Lehrman office, visitors are welcomed by Cassidy Hooker and Morgan DeMartis. They have made the...

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Digital Version of Celebrated Hamilton Education Program to Be Offered Free to Schools Nationwide

HAMILTON and The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Bring Hands-On Learning to History NEW YORK, NY (July 30) --- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI) and HAMILTON today announced the launch of a digital...

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