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 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 Rick Atkinson - "The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777" Order The British Are Coming 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 Susan Eisenhower - "How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions" Order How Ike Led 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 David Head - "A Crisis of Peace: George Washington, the Newburgh Conspiracy, and the Fate of the American Revolution" Order A Crisis of Peace 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Video: Book Breaks Jane Hong - "Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion" Order Opening the Gates to Asia at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link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 Gordon Chang - "The Ghosts of Gold Mountain: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad" Order The Ghosts of Gold Mountain 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 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 H. W. Brands - "Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution" Order Our First Civil 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: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Fight the Red Menace Art, Geography, Religion and Philosophy, World History 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On the December 2, 2021, session of Inside the Vault , Professor Victoria Phillips discussed selected trading cards from the Fight the Red Menace: Children’s Crusade against Communism series . In 1951, the Bowman Bubblegum Company...
Video: Book Breaks Joseph J. Ellis - "The Cause: The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783" Order The 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 Allen C. Guelzo - "Robert E. Lee: A Life" Order Robert E. Lee: A Life 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 Claire Bellerjeau and Tiffany Yecke Brooks - "Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution" Order Espionage and Enslavement in the Revolution 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 Michael S. Neiberg - "When France Fell: The Vichy Crisis and the Fate of the Anglo-American Alliance" Order When France Fell 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: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: Washington's Crossing of the Delaware River Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On January 6, 2022, our curators were joined by Dr. Phillip Hamilton to learn about George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River on December 25–26, 1776, and the Battle of Trenton. We discussed Washington’s orders to his troops...
Video: Book Breaks Jim Downs - "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" Order Maladies of Empire 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 Alaina E. Roberts - "I've Been Here All the While: Black Freedom on Native Land" Alaina E. Roberts is an assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. Order I’ve Been Here All the While at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link...
Video: Book Breaks Alan Taylor - "American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850" Alan Taylor is the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia. Order American Republics at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link...
Video: Inside The Vault Inside the Vault: David Blight Discusses Frederick Douglass Documents Government and Civics, Religion and Philosophy 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ On February 3, 2022, our curators were joined by Dr. David Blight to discuss his favorite Frederick Douglass documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Click here to download the slides from the presentation. Featured Documents...
Video: Book Breaks Jia Lynn Yang - "One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle over American Immigration, 1924-1965 Jia Lynn Yang is national editor at the New York Times . Order One Mighty and Irresistible Tide at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...
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...