Remembering Sandra Day O'Connor (1930-2023)
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On December 1, 2023, trailblazing Justice Sandra Day O’Connor died at age 93.
Theodore Roosevelt Travels to Panama: On This Day, November 9
In 1904, the US took over a massive overseas building project—a ship canal in Panama that would connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. This wasn’t a new idea.
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In 1904, the US took over a massive overseas building project—a ship canal in Panama that would connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. This wasn’t a new idea.
Read moreTheodore Roosevelt Travels to Panama: On This Day, November 9
In 1904, the US took over a massive overseas building project—a ship canal in Panama that would connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. This wasn’t a new idea.
Read moreTheodore Roosevelt Travels to Panama: On This Day, November 9
In 1904, the US took over a massive overseas building project—a ship canal in Panama that would connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. This wasn’t a new idea.
Read moreUlysses S. Grant at West Point, 1839
The Gilder Lehrman Collection includes a letter and a painting by Ulysses S. Grant when he was a cadet at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. These unique items reveal Grant as the equivalent of a modern-day college student.
Read moreCivil War soldiers: Thomas Burpee and his sons
<p>The Gilder Lehrman Collection has more than 10,000 letters written by soldiers during the American Civil War, and when you read dozens or even hundreds of letters by the same person, it is very much like reality television. You become involved in the drama of their lives—the war, relationships, finances, and losses.
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