The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History



From letter, Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox re: Ordinance Department, ca. 1779,
(GLC 07167)




Tintype of unidentified private, ca. 1861. (GLC 05111.01.0506)




"Reading the Emancipation Proclamation." Lithograph of black family reading newspaper, Hartford, Conn., 1864. (Detail, GLC 07595)




Watercolor from the sketchbook of Philo H. Arnold, 1848. (GLC01685)



Research Fellows Dissertation Fellows




Una Ni Bhroimeil (Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick)
A Broker of Influence - John Quinn and Ireland (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

Neil Cogan (Whittier Law School)
Law of the American Slave Societies and their Reconstruction (The Gilder Lehrman Collection)

Caroline Cox (University of the Pacific)
Boy Soldiers: War and Society in the American Revolution (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Charles R. Foy (Eastern Illinois University)
Prize Negroes in the Age of Sail (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Patrick J. Hayes (Fairfield University)
Black Catholics in Brooklyn, 1900-1940 (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

John B. Hench (Independent Scholar)
'Pony Editions' and 'Battle Babies': American Magazines at War, 1941-1946 (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

Gian Domenico Iachini (University of Milan)
Join, or Die. Pictures and Politics in the American Revolution (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Rhonda Jones (North Carolina Central University)
Tithe, Time, and Talent: African Americans, Philanthropy, and Civil Rights (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Sindani Kiangu (University of Kinshasa)
Master Seminar on the Underground Railroad (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Peter Knight (University of Manchester)
Reading the Market: Trust, Confidence and the Personal Touch in American Finance and Business, 1850-1915 (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Lorraine C. McConaghy (Museum of History & Industry)
‘Speaking Politics’: Antebellum Political Convictions of U.S. Naval Officers (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Aife Murray (Independent Scholar)
Stand Up and Be Counted (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

Yael A. Sternhell (Tel-Aviv University)
Revolution in Motion: The Civil War in the South
Anticipating Memory: The Confederate South and the Making of Civil War History (The Gilder Lehrman Collection)


Dissertation Fellows

 

James R. Blackstone (Clare College, University of Cambridge)
The Influence of the Senate Republican Right upon US Foreign Policy, 1950-54 (The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Christopher Cameron (University of North Carolina)
Freeing Themselves: Slavery, Religion, and Black Abolitionists in Massachusetts, 1630-1835 (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Theodore Cohen (University of Maryland-College Park)
Translating Race, Articulating Culture: The Intellectual Constructions of Blackness in Mexican History, 1916 – 1972 (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Sarah Fila-Bakabadio (University of Tours)
From Bullied Body to Brown Sugar: Visual Representations of the Black Body and the Diffusion of a Transatlantic Aesthetic (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Hidetaka Hirota (Boston College)
Nativism, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers, 1848-1877 (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

Stephanie A.T. Jacobe (American University)
Thomas Fortune Ryan: An American Catholic (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Daniel Johnson (Binghamton University)
Atlantic Entrepots: The Social Worlds of Colonial New York City (The Gilder Lehrman Collection)

Jessica Marie Johnson (University of Maryland-College Park)
Black Atlantic Women: Entrepreneurship, Kinship, Religion and the Struggle for Freedom in Senegal, Gulf Coast Louisiana and Saint Domingue, 1715-1848 (The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Michael Todd Landis (George Washington University)
‘Though the Heavens Fall’: Slavery, Northern Democrats, and the Destruction of the Union
(The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Kathryn Shively Meier (University of Virginia)
Under the Surge of the Blue: Environmental Effects on Civil War Soldier Mental and Physical Health in Virginia, 1862 (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

Jonathan Nash (University at Albany, SUNY)
An Incarcerated Republic: Prisoners, Reformers, and the Penitentiary in the Early United States
(The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Jessica Parr (University of New Hampshire)
On the Margins of Empire: the Spectre of Marronage and the Making of Intellectual Borderlands in the Age of Revolution (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Daniel Peart (University College London)
Popular Engagement with Politics in the United States During the Early 1820s (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Jared Peatman (Texas A&M University)
The Gettysburg Address, 1863-1965 (The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library)

Ariel Ron (University of California, Berkeley)
Conceiving an Industrial Nation: Antebellum Origins of Republican Development Policy (The Library of the New-York Historical Society)

Katherine Sedgwick (University of Pennsylvania)
The Meaning of Truth and the Purpose of Higher Education: Religion, Curriculum, and Pedagogy, 1850-1930 (The New York Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library)

 

   

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Albumen print of an unidentified woman in a black dress. (GLC 05131)








Full-length standing carte de visite portrait of two young girls in roller skates. Pentz imprint, York, Pa., undated. (GLC 00241.09)



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