Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: D-Day in maps and letters from soldiers and families Geography, Government and Civics, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On June 2, 2022, our curators discussed D-Day, the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. They were joined by Professor Michael Neiberg, Chair of War Studies at the US Army War College, who gave an overview of the battle and...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Pearl Harbor World History 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Originally broadcast on December 3, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores Gilder Lehrman Collection materials relating to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7,...
Lesson Plan National Security, Isolationism, and the Coming of World War II Government and Civics 11, 12, 13+ Unit Overview The two decades following the end of "The Great War" witnessed significant changes in American economic, social, and cultural life. The affluence and optimism of the 1920s were tempered by memories of the war and an...
Lesson Plan The Soldier's Experience: Letters from Four American Wars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click to download this four-lesson unit.
Video Washington, Grant, Marshall: Three Soldiers and American Ways of War, Part 3: Marshall Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Video WWII and the Transformation of the American West Geography, Government and Civics 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Video The Origins of the Cold War Government and Civics, World History 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ The Cold War was more than the product of post-World War II tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union argues John Lewis Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of History at Yale University. Rather, it was the product of...
Video Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+