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Announcing "In Their Own Words": A New Student Essay Contest

“ In Their Own Words ” is a new essay contest open to high school students at Gilder Lehrman Affiliate Schools . The contest offers students the opportunity to examine primary sources in the Gilder Lehrman Collection and to...

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Deep Dives with Two Civil War Era Courses at the Teacher Symposium

With Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium courses like The American Civil War already filled, teachers looking for further enrichment in the Civil War are encouraged to go deeper into its causes and aftermath with two exciting courses...

Collection Item

Autograph document

1783-1815

Unknown

[Recipe for consumption]

GLC01450.600. 015

Collection Item

Autograph note signed

1783-1815

Matkin, David (fl. ?-)

[Request for 2 gallons of brandy]

GLC01450.600.039

Collection Item

1 January 1865- 11 August 1865

Kessler, Thomas J., fl. 1843-1868

[Diary of a soldier 2nd Brigade Band, 1st Division, 9th Army Corps, during Petersburg Campaign]

States that his band played out the old year and in the new 1 January. 2 January, mentions "Rebs threw a shell at us while playing the Star-spangled Banner at Div Hd. Qrs shelling continued for some time afterwards. Notes that his band performs and...

GLC04562

Lesson Plan

Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress Concerning the Indian Removal Act of 1830

Geography, Government and Civics

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

View a copy of Jackson’s Message to Congress in the Gilder Lehrman Collection by clicking here . For additional resources click here . Unit Objective This unit is part of Gilder Lehrman’s series of Common Core State Standards–based...

History Now Essay

Ten Ways to Teach Rosa Parks

Jeanne Theoharis and Say Burgin

Adapted and reprinted with permission from The Nation [Issue of December 1, 2015] On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus and was arrested. Her courageous action galvanized a yearlong community...

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54 | African American Women in Leadership Summer 2019

Lesson Plan

Perspectives on the Trail of Tears

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Introduction In this lesson, student groups will design and create a poster containing facts about the Trail of Tears as well as a collage and concluding statement expressing the group’s feelings about the event. Background The Trail...

Lesson Plan

Baseball and Race in the United States

9, 10, 11, 12

Background On April 15, 1947, 27,000 fans packed Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, to watch the Dodgers' new first baseman take to the field. They came to watch a baseball game, and they came to see a talented 28-year-old rookie,...

Video: Inside The Vault

Inside the Vault: Primary Sources about Enslaved People

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

While conducting research for the film Twelve Years a Slave , director Steve McQueen and his team came to the Gilder Lehrman Collection to view original primary sources. In this session, Antuan Raimone from Hamilton and Corey...