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The Battle of Gettysburg through Union and Confederate Eyes
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Black Writers of the Founding Era: A Conversation with James Basker
Black Writers of the Founding Era: A Conversation with James Basker Recorded at Roosevelt House, Public Policy Institute at Hunter College, April 17, 2024.
This discussion of the new Library of America anthology Black Writers of the...
Inside the Vault: The Surrender of Robert E. Lee
“I ask a suspension of hostilities pending the discussion of the Terms of surrender of this army.” —Robert E. Lee, April 9, 1865 Shortly before noon on April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee sent a message to Union General...
How to MCQ | AP US History Study Guide
How to MCQ Learn test-taking strategies to answer Multiple-Choice Questions.
Free Speech in US History, 1917-1988
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Environmentalism, Love Canal, and Lois Gibbs, 1953-1997
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President Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address to the Nation, 1961
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Inside the Vault: The Overland Trail
What was life like along the Overland Trail in the 1820s? What hardships did travelers face? On March 7, 2024 our curators were joined by Dr. Sarah Keyes (University of Nevada, Reno) to discuss letters from people on the Trail. View...
How to SAQ, Part I | AP US History Study Guide
How to SAQ: Part I Learn how to respond to Short-Answer Questions about secondary and text-based primary sources.
How to SAQ, Part II | AP US History Study Guide
How to SAQ: Part II Learn how to respond to Short-Answer Questions about image-based primary sources and non-stimulus-based questions.
How to DBQ | AP US History Study Guide
How to DBQ Learn how to respond to the Document-Based Essay Question.
The US Government and Indigenous Peoples before the Trail of Tears, 1770-1839
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Theodore Roosevelt and the Trusts
Background Thick dark smoke billowing out of smokestacks several stories high proliferated across city skylines, heralding America's rise to world prominence and industrial supremacy. After the Civil War, Americans embraced the smog...
Nineteenth-Century Technology in Twenty-First-Century America
Introduction The nineteenth century was marked by a period of innovation, invention, and a huge spurt of growth known as the industrial revolution. Many inventions from the nineteenth century never caught on or have become obsolete,...
Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Immigration and Migration: Pairing Text and Visual Materials
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Understanding Lincoln: First Inaugural Address (1861)
Watch this close reading of a document by Abraham Lincoln, with Dickinson College historian Matthew Pinsker.
Understanding Lincoln: House Divided Speech (1858)
Understanding Lincoln: House Divided Speech Historian Matthew Pinsker discusses Lincoln's famous speech.
Evaluating Lyndon B. Johnson’s Character and Efforts during the Civil Rights Era
Background Information In 1969 Thomas Baker conducted an interview with Roy Wilkins, executive directory of the NAACP, based on Wilkins’s experiences with Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. This abridged version of the...
History U | Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism
Lyndon Johnson and American Liberalism Watch Michael Flamm, Professor of History, Ohio Wesleyan University discuss Lyndon Johnson as part of the History U course "1960s in Historical Perspective."
The Gilder Lehrman Institute’s...
History U | The Articles of Confederation
The Articles of Confederation Watch Denver Brunsman, Associate Professor of History at George Washington University, discuss the Articles of Confederation as part of the History U course "Foundations of American Government."
The...
History U | American Indian History Introduction
American Indian History Introduction Watch Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone), Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, introduce his History U course "American Indian History: Recasting the Narrative"
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"On Juneteenth": A Conversation with Annette Gordon-Reed
Recording of a Book Talk on On Juneteenth presented by author Annette Gordon-Reed (Harvard University) in conversation with Edward L. Ayers (University of Richmond).
Inside the Vault: Lincoln’s Refusal to Pardon Nathaniel Gordon
“It becomes my painful duty to admonish the prisoner that, relinquishing all expectation of pardon by Human Authority, he refer himself alone to the mercy of the Common God and Father of all men.” —Abraham Lincoln, February 4, 1862...
Securing the Right to Vote: The Selma-to-Montgomery Story
Essential Question What conditions created the need for a protest march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, and what did that march achieve? Background Throughout American history, African Americans have struggled to gain...
Colonists Divided: A Revolution and a Civil War
Background The Stamp Act, the Quartering Act, the Declaratory Act, the Sugar Act, and the Tea Act were just a few of the many policies Great Britain enacted in the British North American colonies in the eighteenth century. To many...
“A City upon a Hill” from John Winthrop’s “A Modell of Christian Charity,” 1630
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Generations of Chinese in America, 1880s–1940s/1940s–1990s
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The Mexican-American War: Arguments for and against Going to War
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Letter from Christopher Columbus on Returning from His First Voyage to the Americas, 1493
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