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The Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900

Richard White

Economics, Government and Civics

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When in 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner entitled their co-authored novel The Gilded Age , they gave the late nineteenth century its popular name. The term reflected the combination of outward wealth and dazzle with inner...

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2021 Winter Newsletter

Dear Friend of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, Only 15% of eighth graders across the country are proficient in US history. Only 23% of them are competent in civics. These statistics represent a profound decline since 2014, according to...

History Now Essay

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Maya Lin

Art

Reprinted by permission of Maya Lin from her book Boundaries (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000). It’s taken me years to be able to discuss the making of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial , partly because I needed to move past it and...

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45 | American History in Visual Art Summer 2016

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Past Fellows

Below is a list of all recipients of Gilder Lehrman Fellowships since the program’s founding. The Fellow’s name, home institution at the time of the fellowship, and project title are followed by the research archive and year of the...

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Scholarly Fellowships | Past Fellows

Below is a list of all recipients of Gilder Lehrman Fellowships since the program’s founding. The fellow’s name, home institution at the time of the fellowship, and project title are followed by the research archive and year of the...

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What’s That Sound? Teaching the 1960s through Popular Music

Brian Ward

Art

There’s Something Happening Here . . . The 1960s was one of the most dramatic and controversial decades in American history. Opinions about its achievements and failures continue to be divided between those who condemn the decade as...

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Richard Gilder

Remembering Richard Gilder (1932–2020) Richard Gilder Remembered by the Press and Other Institutions A Song from the Gilder Lehrman Collection Performed in Honor of Richard Gilder Introduction to the Richard Gilder Biography Richard...