Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Mary Katherine Goddard Government and Civics, World History 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On March 3, 2022, our curators were joined by Dr. Martha J. King to discuss Mary Katherine Goddard. Goddard was a newspaper publisher and printer, producing one of the first copies of the Declaration of Independence, and served as...
Video: Book Breaks Woody Holton - "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution" Woody Holton is the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Order Liberty Is Sweet at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank...
Video: Book Breaks Ricardo A. Herrera - "Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778" Government and Civics Ricardo A. Herrera is a professor of military history in the School of Advanced Military Studies at the US Army Command and General Staff College. Order Feeding Washington’s Army at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an...
Video: Book Breaks Denver Brunsman - "The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History Denver Brunsman is an associate professor of history at The George Washington University. Order The Evil Necessity at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided....
Video: Book Breaks Susan Schulten - "A History of America in 100 Maps" Geography Susan Schulten is a professor of history at the University of Denver. Order A History of America in 100 Maps at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you...
Video: Book Breaks Peter Cozzens - "Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation" Geography Peter Cozzens is a retired US foreign service officer and winner of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History. Order Tecumseh and the Prophet at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every...
Video: Book Breaks Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, and Lisa McGirr - "Give Me Liberty! An American History" Literature Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lisa McGirr is a Charles Warren Professor of American...
Video: Book Breaks Steven A. Steinbach and Maeva Marcus - "With Liberty and Justice for All? The Constitution in the Classroom" Geography, Government and Civics, Literature Steven A. Steinbach teaches US history and government at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington DC and Maeva Marcus is a professor of law at George Washington University. Order With Liberty and Justice for All? at the Gilder...
Lesson Plan Apprenticeship and Indentured Servitude: Contract Labor in the British Colonies 5, 6, 7, 8 Click here to download this three-lesson unit. About This Lesson Plan Unit The four lessons in this unit explore a massacre in colonial Pennsylvania in which the Paxton Boys—immigrants from Ulster,...