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Fredrik Logevall - "JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956"

Fredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and a professor of history at Harvard University. Order JFK at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an...

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Fort Greene and the Prison Ship Martyrs | Spanish Influence on American History

Fort Greene and the Prison Ship Martyrs The Lost Legacy: Hispanic Heritage and the American Revolution >

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Pacific Crossings: Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories, 1870 to the Present

Asian American and Pacific Islander Histories, 1870 to the Present This two-week NEH Summer Institute addresses the needs of grade 6–12 educators looking to expand their knowledge of Asian American and Pacific Islander histories in the United States...

History Now Essay

Our National Cemetery and Its Honored Dead: The African American History of Arlington

Ric Murphy

Adapted by permission of Ric Murphy from his book, Section 27 and Freedman’s Village in Arlington National Cemetery: The African American History of America’s Most Hallowed Ground (McFarland & Company, 2020), co-authored with...

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62 | The Honored Dead: African American Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Burial Grounds Spring 2022

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Alan Taylor - "American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850"

Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Order American Republics at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link...

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[n.d.]

Ward, John Quincy Adams, 1830-1910

Sculpture design: Native American warrior dealing a blow to a felled man with clubbing weapon, and female nude; graphite; tracing paper.

GLC06343.358

History Now Essay

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin (Zitkala-Ša) and the National Council of American Indians: Leading the Way for Indigenous Self-Representation

Michael P. Taylor

Born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in 1876, the same year as the Battle of Greasy Grass (known more commonly in US history as the Battle of Little Big Horn), Gertrude Simmons Bonnin grew up amidst a US-national culture of systemic...

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59 | American Indians in Leadership Winter 2021

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Announcing Our 50th Self-Paced Course: American Colonies, led by Alan Taylor

Gilder Lehrman Self-Paced Courses offer graduate-level instruction in American history led by the nation’s top historians. We are pleased to announce that the addition of Alan Taylor’s American Colonies course now brings us to 50 Self...

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1816

Bingham, Caleb, 1757-1817

The American Preceptor; Being a new Selection of Lessons for Reading and Speaking, Designed for the Use of Schools

JB00528

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Autograph manuscript signed

circa 1777-1778

Ellery, William, 1727-1820

[The Lancaster pocket almanack, for the year 1778. Being the third year of American Independency. Inscribed by William Ellery].

Title continues: "and the neighbouring states; containing a variety of useful lists and tables." Signed on the cover with his title: "Lancaster Almanack for 1778." Includes 24 blank pages for notes, which Ellery has filled with diary, notes, and...

GLC06669