History Now: the Journal

History Now, the online journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, features essays by the nation's top historians and provides the latest in American history scholarship for teachers, students, and general readers.

The Nineteenth Amendment and Beyond | Spring 2020

Past Issues

Examining Reconstruction | Fall 2019

African American Women in Leadership | Summer 2019

The Hispanic Legacy in American History | Winter 2019

The History of US Immigration Laws | Fall 2018

The Evolution of Voting Rights | Summer 2018

Frederick Douglass at 200 | Winter 2018

Excavating American History | Fall 2017

Jazz, the Blues, and American Identity | Summer 2017

American Women in Leadership | Winter 2017

African American Soldiers | Fall 2016

American History in Visual Art | Summer 2016

Alexander Hamilton in the American Imagination | Winter 2016

Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam | Fall 2015

The Role of China in US History | Spring 2015

The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Legislating Equality | Winter 2015

Disasters in Modern American History | Fall 2014

American Poets, American History | Spring 2014

The Joining of the Rails: The Transcontinental Railroad | Winter 2014

Gettysburg: Insights and Perspectives | Fall 2013

Great Inaugural Addresses | Summer 2013

America’s First Ladies | Spring 2013

The Revolutionary Age | Winter 2012

Electing a President | Fall 2012

The Music and History of Our Times | Summer 2012

Perspectives on America’s Wars | Spring 2012

American Reform Movements | Winter 2012

Religion in the Colonial World | Fall 2011

American Indians | Summer 2011

The Cold War | Spring 2011

New Interpretations of the Civil War | Winter 2010

Three Worlds Meet | Fall 2010

Shaping the American Economy | Summer 2010

Turning Points in American Sports | Spring 2010

Andrew Jackson and His World | Winter 2009

The American Revolution | Fall 2009

High Crimes and Misdemeanors | Summer 2009

The Great Depression | Spring 2009

Abraham Lincoln in His Time and Ours | Winter 2008

Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Era | Fall 2008

Books That Changed History | Summer 2008

The Supreme Court | Spring 2008

World War II | Winter 2007

The Constitution | Fall 2007

The Age Of Exploration | Summer 2007

American Cities | Spring 2007

Nineteenth Century Technology | Winter 2006

The American West | Fall 2006

The Civil Rights Movement | Summer 2006

Women's Suffrage | Spring 2006

Lincoln | Winter 2005

Abolition | Fall 2005

American National Holidays | Summer 2005

Immigration | Spring 2005

Primary Sources on Slavery | Winter 2004

Elections | Fall 2004
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