Photographing the Transcontinental Railroad

Essay

Glenn Willumson

Art, Geography, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

Frederick Douglass: From Slavery to Freedom

Essay

Steven Mintz

Government and Civics

A Poem Links Unlikely Allies in 1775: Phillis Wheatley and George Washington

Essay

James G. Basker

Government and Civics, Literature

"If Ever Two Were One": Anne Bradstreet’s "To My Dear and Loving Husband"

Essay

Charlotte Gordon

Literature

"The Merits of This Fearful Conflict": Douglass on the Causes of the Civil War

Essay

David W. Blight

Douglass and Lincoln: A Convergence

Essay

James Oakes

"I, Too": Langston Hughes’s Afro-Whitmanian Affirmation

Essay

Steven Tracy

Literature

"The New Colossus": Emma Lazarus and the Immigrant Experience

Essay

Julie Des Jardins

Literature

"Half slave, half free": Lincoln and the "House Divided"

Essay

Gabor S. Boritt

Government and Civics

"To give all a chance": Lincoln, Abolition, and Economic Freedom

Essay

Lewis E. Lehrman

Government and Civics