Spotlights on Primary Sources provide a deep dive into documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, offering explanatory text, a transcript, and an image of a featured document. Click on individual spotlights for printer-friendly resources, and note that additional questions for classroom discussion are available to K–12 teachers and parents. View our full collection of Spotlights here.
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 1911
Sheet music featuring a song about the fire printed in Yiddish, commemorating the workers and lamenting their deaths - Theodore Roosevelt supports women’s suffrage, 1912
A July 1912 letter in which Theodore Roosevelt informs the state and county chairmen of the Progressive Party of his plan to support women’s suffrage - Teddy Roosevelt campaigns for a third term, 1912
A 1912 card for Ohio delegates to the Republican National Convention with instructions for how to vote for Teddy Roosevelt - Women’s suffrage poster, 1915
A 1915 leaflet refuting accusations that voting would be detrimental to women’s character and to their families - Theodore Roosevelt on the sinking of the Lusitania, 1915
A letter from the former president Teddy Roosevelt disagreeing with President Wilson’s diplomatic response to the sinking of the Lusitania