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: Book Breaks R. Isabela Morales - "Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom" Economics, Geography R. Isabela Morales is a historian who currently serves as the editor of the Princeton & Slavery Project at Princeton University. Order Happy Dreams of Liberty at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission...
Video: Book Breaks Ken Burns - "Our America: A Photographic History" Art, Economics, Foreign Languages, Geography, Government and Civics, Literature, Religion and Philosophy, Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, World History Ken Burns, the producer and director of numerous film series, including The Roosevelts: An Intimate History and Country Music , founded his own documentary film company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His landmark film, The Civil War ,...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Lynching and Anti-Lynching Materials 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On April 6, 2023, our curators were joined by Dr. Terry Anne Scott (Director, Institute for Common Power). Dr. Scott used primary sources to discuss the history of anti-lynching activism and the dreadful events that gave rise to it,...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Twentieth-Century Voting Rights Government and Civics 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On August 3, 2023, our curators were joined by Dr. Barbara Perry, Gerald L. Baliles Professor and director of Presidential Studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center, to discuss materials related to twentieth-century...
Video: General Witnessing History: The Pardon of Homer Plessy Government and Civics In conjunction with our panel, Witnessing History: The Pardon of Homer Plessy (presented in partnership with the Office of the Governor of Louisiana), the Gilder Lehrman Institute has compiled this list of resources on the Plessy v....
Video: Book Breaks John Barry - "The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in History" John Barry is an author, historian, and adjunct faculty at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Order The Great Influenza at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every...
Video: Book Breaks Khalil Gibran Muhammad - "The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America" Order The Condemnation of Blackness 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 Martha Jones - "Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality for All" Order Vanguard at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs!