About page Awards, Honors, and Key Initiatives In recognition of its contribution to the knowledge and understanding of American history, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has received the following awards and honors: In 2021, the Gilder Lehrman Institute was...
News Spotlight on the MA: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Registration is now open for fall courses in the new Gettysburg College–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History —an affordable, fully online master’s degree program, led by renowned, award-winning historians, that brings together the...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Robert E. Lee’s message to his troops before the Battle of Spotsylvania, 1864 Just after the devastating fighting in Virginia at the Battle of the Wilderness and prior to the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864, Confederate General Robert E. Lee drafted this inspirational message to his troops on the back of a...