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Steven M. Gillon - "Presidents at War: How World War II Shaped a Generation of Presidents, from Eisenhower and JFK through Reagan and Bush"

World History

Steven M. Gillon is a senior fellow at the Miller Center at UVA and professor emeritus of history at the University of Oklahoma. Order Presidents at War at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every...

Dressing Freedom: The Wedding Clothing of Freed People (2025)

Dressing Freedom: The Wedding Clothing of Freed People (2025) Topic 3.2 “Dressing Freedom: The Wedding Clothing of Freed People” by Brenda E. Stevenson (2025) Once they gained their freedom, Black people hoped that legal,...

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Theresa Runstedtler - "Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of the NBA"

Theresa Runstedtler is an associate professor of history at American University. Order Black Ball at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...

Lesson Plan

European Exploration of the Americas, 1489-1596

3, 4, 5

About This Lesson Plan Unit > Over the course of five lessons, students will engage in critical-thinking activities and analyze maps, texts, and images. They will better understand multiple...

Yorùbá Dance Wand (19th or 20th Century)

Yorùbá Dance Wand (19th or 20th Century) Topic 1.7 A Yorùbá Dance Wand, or Oshe Shango (19th or 20th Century) aria-labelledby="par-19404-figcaption" > A Yorùbá (Igbomina subgroup) dance wand (oshe shango), late 19th or...

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Peniel Joseph - "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution"

Government and Civics

Peniel E. Joseph is a professor of public affairs, Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. Order Freedom...

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Justene Hill Edwards - "Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank"

Economics, Government and Civics

Justene Hill Edwards is assistant professor in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. Order Savings and Trust at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through...

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Victor Luckerson - "Built from the Fire: The Epic Story of Tulsa's Greenwood District, America's Black Wall Street"

Economics, World History

Victor Luckerson is a journalist whose writing and research have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Wired, and Smithsonian. Order Built from the Fire at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission...

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Tamara Payne - "The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X"

Religion and Philosophy

Tamara Payne is a journalist and primary researcher for The Dead Are Arising. Order The Dead Are Arising at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...

Visualizing the Red Summer Timeline (2015–2025)

Visualizing the Red Summer Timeline (2015–2025) Topic 3.6 Karen Sieber, “Visualizing the Red Summer” Timeline (2015–2025) Source: Karen Sieber, Visualizing the Red Summer Interactive Timeline, 2015–2025. Access Visualizing...

Lesson Plan

Fighting Jim Crow: Douglass, Washington, and Du Bois, 1887–1906

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

About This Lesson Plan Unit > Over the course of four lessons, students will read a letter and excerpts from two speeches by leading African American men of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to examine...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Jacksonian Democracy

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1: The aristocracy of our country . . . continually contrive to change their party name. It was first Tory, then Federalist, then no party . . . then National Republican, now Whig. . . . But by whatever name they reorganize...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Indian Removal

Geography, Government and Civics

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

Reading 1 Toward the aborigines of this country no one can indulge a more friendly feeling than myself, or would go further in attempting to reclaim them from their wandering habits and make them a happy, prosperous people. Humanity...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Political Battles of the Jacksonian Era: The Bank War

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1: It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Political Battles of the Jacksonian Era: Nullification

Economics, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1: And, sir, let it be remembered that a revenue system, grossly and palpably unequal in itself--a system which, under the most favorable modification, would levy the entire amount of the federal taxes from one-fifth part of...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Origins of the Cold War: The Containment Policy

Economics, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 Soviet power...bears within itself the seeds of its own decay, and the sprouting of these seeds is well advanced...[If] anything were ever to disrupt the unity and efficacy of the Party as a political instrument, Soviet...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Origins of the Cold War and Soviet-American Confrontation

Economics, Government and Civics, World History

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague,...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: The Korean War

Economics, Government and Civics, World History

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 In Korea the Government forces, which were armed to prevent border raids and to preserve internal security, were attacked by invading forces from North Korea. . . . The attack upon Korea makes it plain beyond all doubt that...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Anti-Communism at Home

Economics, Government and Civics, World History

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 Sec. 2: (a) It shall be unlawful for any person— (1) to knowingly or willfully advocate, abet, advise, or teach the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying any government in the United...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Roots of Reform: Religion and Social Reform

Religion and Philosophy

9, 10, 11, 12

From 1801 for years a blessed revival of religion spread through almost the entire inhabited parts of the West. . . . The Presbyterians and Methodists in a great measure united in this work, met together, prayed together, and preached...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Antebellum Social Reform

Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1: “The elementary schools throughout the state are irresponsible institutions, established by individuals, from mere motives of private speculation or gain, who are sometimes destitute of character, and frequently, of the...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Religion and Social Reform: Abolitionism

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 Assenting to the “self-evident truth” maintained in the American Declaration of Independence, “that all men are created equal, and endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights” . . . I shall strenuously contend...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Urban Political Machines

Economics, Government and Civics

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 An army led by a council seldom conquers: It must have a commander-in-chief who settles disputes, decides in emergencies, inspires fear or attachment. The head of the Ring is such a commander. He dispenses places, rewards...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: The Rise of the City

Economics, Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 To-day, what is a tenement? . . . When last arraigned before the bar of public justice: “It is generally a brick building from four to six stories high on the street, frequently with a store on the first floor which, when...

Guided Readings

Guided Readings: Problems of Youth

9, 10, 11, 12

Reading 1 Every American boy, a hundred years ago, lived either on a farm or in such close touch with farm life that he reaped its benefits. He had all the practical knowledge that comes from country surroundings; that is, he could...

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