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Using Gilder Lehrman Lesson Plans for Younger Learners and Their Siblings: Colonial and Revolutionary America

Finding educational history activities to do with children in elementary school is particularly challenging in this time of remote learning. Many schools are unable to provide a history curriculum, particularly for younger grades, as...

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Houston tri-weekly telegraph. [Vol. 31, no. 22, whole no. 3909 (May 15, 1865)]

15 May 1865

Cushing, Edward H., 1829-1879

Mosby still at large, Large numbers of Union going to Mexico to enlist, Johson lifts all restrictions on commercial trade of the Southern states, 100,000 reward offered for the arrest of President Jefferson Davis on account of complicity in the...

GLC05959.54.58

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Autograph letter signed

to Joseph M. Maitland

13 September 1863

Maitland, James M., 1815-1864

Informs his son, "We... have noticed by the papers that Rosencrans [sic] is pushing after the [Rebl] army and has possession of Chattanooga and that Burnside with his army has taken Cumberlan [sic] Gap with 2,000 Prisoners and 19 guns, and had also...

GLC03523.10.103

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Yale and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Announce 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners

Award Ceremony to Take Place February 11, 2025 New Haven, Connecticut, December 4, 2024— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the winners of the twenty-sixth...

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Autograph letter signed

to W

13 May 1862 - 15 May 1862

Writes that by keeping in contact with home the soldiers and those they left at home feel better. Explains the anguish felt while waiting to hear from loved ones or friends after a battle. Hopes that General Ulysses S. Grant will "hurry affairs" in...

GLC03523.42.11

History Now Essay