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This collection comprises personal and military correspondence relating to U.S., and later Confederate, congressman Augustus Wright and his son Miller, both Southerners with Unionist sympathies. Topics include battles (including First Manassas)...

GLC02691

History Now Essay

Disasters and the Politics of Memory

Kevin Rozario

Government and Civics

The controversy that erupted around the opening of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum on May 21, 2014, reminds us that much is at stake in the way disasters are remembered. Costing some $700 million to build, with an annual...

Appears in:

40 | Disasters in Modern American History Fall 2014

History Now Essay

Postwar Taiwan and the USA

Denny Roy

World History

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Taiwan has been a showcase of liberalization under American encouragement, but also the primary irritant in US-China relations. A large island with a population of twenty-three million located about 100 to 150 miles off the coast of...

Appears in:

42 | The Role of China in US History Spring 2015

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GLI Now - Winter 2018 Newsletter

Sara Ziemnik: 2017 National History Teacher of the Year On November 8, Sara Ziemnik was honored as the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s 2017 National History Teacher of the Year at a ceremony in New York City. Pulitzer Prize–winning...

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The fifteenth amendment celebrated May 19th 1870

1870

Beard, James Carter, 1837-1913

One print entitled The fifteenth amendment celebrated May 19th 1870, dated 1870. Copyright entered by Thomas Kelly. From an original by James Beard. Lithograph in color with much iconography relating to passage of the Reconstruction amendments and...

GLC10030

History Now Essay

From the Editor

Carol Berkin

Personal visits to cemeteries and burial grounds evoke both emotions and memories. But these final resting places are also windows into our national history. The heroes buried at Arlington tell us the story of our nation’s wars while...

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

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