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Women and the Early Industrial Revolution in the United States

Thomas Dublin

Economics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The industrial revolution that transformed western Europe and the United States during the course of the nineteenth century had its origins in the introduction of power-driven machinery in the English and Scottish textile industries...

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10 | Nineteenth Century Technology Winter 2006

History Now Essay

Constance Baker Motley: A Trailblazer in the Legal Profession

Gary L. Ford, Jr.

Government and Civics

Gary L. Ford Jr. , an assistant professor of Africana Studies at Lehman College, City University of New York, is the author of Constance Baker Motley: One Woman’s Fight for Civil Rights and Equal Justice under Law (2017) and a co...

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57 | Black Voices in American Historiography Summer 2020

History Now Essay

Citizenship in the Reconstruction South

Susanna Lee

Economics, Government and Civics

Slaveholders created a system of race, gender, and class inequality in the pre-Civil War South. They justified slavery by arguing that enslaved people could not take care of themselves and needed masters to look after them. White...

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55 | Examining Reconstruction Fall 2019

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Get to Know the 2017 History Teachers of the Year: Casey Swift, Wyoming

In 2017, the Gilder Lehrman Institute recognized 52 State History Teachers of the Year for their tireless and innovative efforts to make history come alive for their students. But who are they, really? We asked these talented teachers...

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What Our 2020 History Teachers of the Year Are Doing Now

On Wednesday, October 6 at 8 p.m. ET, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will present the 2021 National History Teacher of the Year Award to Nataliya Braginsky in a special virtual ceremony . The ceremony also features most of this...

History Now Essay

Women and the United States Supreme Court

Julie Silverbrook

Government and Civics

If you ask most people about the history of women and the United States Supreme Court, they are likely to point to the historic nomination of Sandra Day O’Connor as the first female justice, in 1981. That is a watershed moment in our...

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47 | American Women in Leadership Winter 2017

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The New Deal

Thomas Kessner

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s protean presidency from 1933 to 1945 (the longest term of leadership in this nation’s history) has provoked many debates about the man and his policies. For some he is the brilliant tactician who wrestled...

History Now Essay

Graft and Oil: How Teapot Dome Became the Greatest Political Scandal of Its Time

Robert W. Cherny

Economics, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

In the 1920s, Teapot Dome became synonymous with government corruption and the scandals arising out of the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Since then, it has sometimes been used to symbolize the power and influence of...

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20 | High Crimes and Misdemeanors Summer 2009

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The Development of the West

Ned Blackhawk

In the summer of 1876, two dramatically different places captured the American nation’s attention. As the summer began, fairgoers in Philadelphia teemed into the Centennial Exhibition held to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary...

History Now Essay

The Korean War

Allan R. Millett

World History

8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

The Korean War was three different conflicts from the perspective of the disparate groups who fought in it. For North and South Korea, the conflict was a civil war, a struggle with no possible compromise between two competing visions...

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31 | Perspectives on America’s Wars Spring 2012

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Women and the Early Industrial Revolution in the United States

Constance Baker Motley: A Trailblazer in the Legal Profession

Citizenship in the Reconstruction South

Get to Know the 2017 History Teachers of the Year: Casey Swift, Wyoming

What Our 2020 History Teachers of the Year Are Doing Now

Women and the United States Supreme Court

The New Deal

Graft and Oil: How Teapot Dome Became the Greatest Political Scandal of Its Time

The Development of the West

The Korean War

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