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Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Abraham Lincoln Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Originally broadcast on November 12, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores Gilder Lehrman Collection materials relating to the life of Abraham Lincoln, both before and after he...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: The Emancipation Proclamation & FDR’s Advice to Students Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The Gilder Lehrman curators were joined by Hamilton ’s Tyler Belo on September 3, 2020, in this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection where they celebrated the start of the school year with three...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: July Anniversaries 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The June 26, 2020 edition of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores a rare South Carolina printing of the Declaration of Independence and a soldier’s experience at the Battle of Gettysburg. The...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Ulysses S. Grant 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Originally broadcast on May 15, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores the earliest known letter by Ulysses S. Grant, written when he was a 17-year-old cadet at West Point, and...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Two Generals: George Washington and Robert E. Lee Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Originally broadcast on April 17, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores a letter from George Washington about becoming the first President of the United States in 1789 and...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Collection 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ In the first session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on April 3, 2020, Collection Director Sandy Trenholm, Assistant Curator Allison Kraft, Curatorial Assistant Laura Hapke, and Hamilton Education...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Primary Sources about Enslaved People 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 While conducting research for the film Twelve Years a Slave , director Steve McQueen and his team came to the Gilder Lehrman Collection to view original primary sources. In this session, Antuan Raimone from Hamilton and Corey...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: The Lives and Works of Phillis Wheatley and Elizabeth Keckley Literature 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On the February 4, 2021 session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection , our curators talk with English Language Arts educator Jeanette Providence and Hamilton cast member Krystal Mackie about the lives...
Video: Read Along "Locomotive" It is the summer of 1869, and trains, crews, and family are traveling together, riding America’s brand-new transcontinental railroad. These pages come alive with the details of the trip and the sounds, speed, and strength of the...
Video: Read Along "Dancing Hands: How Teresa Carreno Played the Piano for President Lincoln" Government and Civics As a little girl, Teresa Carreño loved to let her hands dance across the beautiful keys of the piano. If she felt sad, music cheered her up, and when she was happy, the piano helped her share that joy. Soon she was writing her own...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Frederick Douglass: Advocate for Equality 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Most people know Frederick Douglass as an abolitionist, but his fight for equality did not end after the Thirteenth Amendment. In the February 18, 2021 session of Inside the Vault, educator Mandel Holland and Hamilton cast member...
Video: Read Along "The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery" The mist in Charleston Inner Harbor was heavy, but not heavy enough to disguise the stolen Confederate steamship, the Planter, from Confederate soldiers. In the early hours of May 13, 1862, in the midst of the deadly U.S. Civil War,...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Civil War Diaries of William Woodlin, 8th USCT, & Cyrena Hammond 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ During the Civil War, 22-year-old William Woodlin, a musician in the 8th United States Colored Troops, and 18-year-old Cyrena Hammond, from Clarendon, New York, kept diaries about their experiences and observations. They recorded the...
Video: Read Along "Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre" Government and Civics Celebrated author Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrator Floyd Cooper provide a powerful look at the Tulsa Race Massacre, one of the worst incidents of racial violence in our nation’s history. The book traces the history of...
Video: Read Along "Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story" Government and Civics Frederick Douglass knew where he was born but not when. He knew his grandmother but not his father. And as a young child, there were other questions, such as Why am I a slave? Answers to those questions might have eluded him but...
Video: Read Along "A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story" A Ride to Remember tells how a community came together—both Black and White—to make a change. When Sharon Langley was born in the early 1960s, many amusement parks were segregated, and African American families were not allowed entry...
Video: Read Along "Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks" Literature Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) is known for her poems about “real life.” She wrote about love, loneliness, family, and poverty—showing readers how just about anything could become a beautiful poem. Exquisite follows Gwendolyn from...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Massachusetts 54th 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On July 18, 1863, the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry led an assault against Battery Wagner on Morris Island, South Carolina. The battle demonstrated the bravery and fierce determination of African American soldiers even though...
Interactive The History of Race Relations in America: African American Experiences, 1492-Present Government and Civics
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Video: Read Along "Before She Was Harriet" This lush, lyrical biography in verse begins with a glimpse of Harriet Tubman as an old woman, and travels back in time through the many roles she played through her life: spy, liberator, suffragist, and more. Illustrated by James...
Video: Book Breaks Eric Foner - "The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Made the Constitution" Eric Foner is the DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. Order The Second Founding at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank...
Video: Book Breaks Elizabeth Varon - "Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War" Elizabeth Varon is the Langbourne M. Williams Professor of American History and the associate director of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History at the University of Virginia. Order Armies of Deliverance at the Gilder...
Video: Book Breaks Allen Guelzo - "Gettysburg: The Last Invasion" Allen C. Guelzo is the senior research scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University and the director of the James Madison Program’s Initiative in Politics and Statesmanship. Order Gettysburg: The Last Invasion at...
Video: Book Breaks Martha Hodes - "Mourning Lincoln" Order Mourning Lincoln at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks James Shapiro - "Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future" Order Shakespeare in a Divided America at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs! ...
Video: Book Breaks Catherine Clinton - "Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and the American Civil War" Order Stepdaughters of History at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks Richard Brookhiser - "Give Me Liberty: A History of America's Exceptional Idea" Order Give Me Liberty at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks Harold Holzer - "The Presidents Vs. The Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media—from the Founding Fathers to Fake News" Order The Presidents Vs. The Press at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs! ...
Video: Book Breaks Manisha Sinha - "The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition" Order The Slave's Cause at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks David S. Reynolds - "Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times" David S. Reynolds is a distinguished professor of English and History at The Graduate Center, CUNY Order Abe at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you...
Video: Book Breaks David Blight - "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" Order Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs! Classroom-Ready Resources Video...
Video: Book Breaks James Oakes - "The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution" Order The Crooked Path to Abolition at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs! ...
Video: Book Breaks Amanda Bellows - "American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination" Order American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs! ...
Video: Book Breaks Brandon Byrd - "The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti" Order The Black Republic at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks Ilisa Barbas and Molly Rogers - "To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes" Order To Make Their Own Way in the World at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs! ...
Video: Book Breaks Ed Ayers - "The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America" Order The Thin Light of Freedom at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks Thavolia Glymph - "The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation" Order The Women's Fight at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks Kate Masur - "Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction" Order Until Justice Be Done at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks Clint Smith - "How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery across America" Order How the Word is Passed at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks Adrian Brettle - "Colossal Ambitions: Confederate Planning for a Post-Civil War World" Order Colossal Ambitions at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
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Video: Book Breaks Caroline Janney - "Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army after Appomattox" Order Ends of War at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!
Video: Book Breaks Bruce Levine - "Thaddeus Stevens: Civil War Revolutionary, Fighter for Racial Justice" Order Thaddeus Stevens at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!