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History Now Essay From the Editor Carol Berkin Most Americans are familiar with the role leading Frenchmen played in the story of the American Revolution. They admire the young and idealistic Marquis de Lafayette, scorn the wily peace treaty negotiator the Comte de Vergennes, and... Appears in: 68 | The Role of Spain in the American Revolution Fall 2023
History Now Essay American Independence and the Spanish Navy Manuel Lucena-Giraldo For the ministers in charge of the Spanish empire, the outbreak of the American Revolution was nothing short of unthinkable. In 1776, the rebellion of American colonists against Spain’s quintessential enemy, the British empire, was... Appears in: 68 | The Role of Spain in the American Revolution Fall 2023
Lesson Plan Colonial Pennsylvania and the Paxton Massacre, 1763 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Click here to download this four-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,...
News Brown v. Board of Education: On This Day, May 17 On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas , unanimously ruling that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The decision overturned the 1896...
Program/Event Book Breaks May 26 Every Sunday at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT) Upcoming Book Breaks May May 26 - Dylan Penningroth on Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights Legal scholar Dylan Penningroth traces the roots of civil rights back to the...
Program/Event Summer Professional Development Whatever your budget and your interests, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has a professional development opportunity for you. Study with world-renowned scholars, connect with other teachers from across the United States, and reinvigorate your enthusiasm...
Basic Page Sport in American History (Teacher Symposium) Sport in American History Meanings Beyond the Field, Court, Track, and Rink REGISTRATION CLOSED This course examines the historical development of sport in the United States from a societal and cultural viewpoint and explores the significance of...
Basic Page Native American History (Teacher Symposium) Native American History REGISTRATION CLOSED This course will offer glimpses of the daunting diversity of Native America—thousands of distinctive peoples, cultures, languages, and lifeways stretching over millennia. Lead Scholar : K. Tsianina...
Basic Page All Upcoming Deadlines All Upcoming Deadlines May 2024 NHTOY Friday, May 31, 2024 at 11:59 pm ET Last Day to Submit Dossier submissions are due for National History Teacher of the Year nominees. June 2024 MA in American History Wednesday, June 5,...
Basic Page America Heads West (Teacher Symposium) America Heads West Westward Expansion and the Making of the Nation REGISTRATION CLOSED In this course, we will follow the westward growth of the United States, from its colonial beginnings to the late nineteenth century, and consider how that...
Basic Page American Presidency (Teacher Symposium) The American Presidency The Most Powerful, Impossible Job in the World REGISTRATION CLOSED The course will discuss the origins of the presidency and the executive branch, how it has evolved over the past 234 years, and the challenges facing the...
Basic Page The Civil Rights Movement (Teacher Symposium) The Civil Rights Movement REGISTRATION CLOSED This course will examine the US Civil Rights Movement. It will begin by looking at Black life in the early twentieth century—the height of the Jim Crow era—to establish critical context for the Black...
Basic Page The American Civil War (Teacher Symposium) The American Civil War REGISTRATION CLOSED This course examines the era of the American Civil War, with emphasis on its origins, scope, and consequences. Lead Scholar : Gary Gallagher, University of Virginia Master Teacher : Gena Oppenheim Image...
Program/Event Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium Join us and three hundred fellow educators at Gettysburg College for this four-day program. You will study one topic in depth with a world-renowned scholar and be able to attend optional events such as book talks, networking sessions, trivia night,...
Basic Page American Revolution The American Revolution REGISTRATION CLOSED When did the American Revolution begin and end? What were its causes and effects? How did entirely new forms of both freedom and unfreedom come about at exactly the same time? We will investigate these...
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,...
History Now Essay "People Get Ready": Music and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s Brian Ward Government and Civics 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+ Few sights or sounds conjure up the passion and purposefulness of the Southern Civil Rights Movement as powerfully as the freedom songs that provided a stirring musical accompaniment to the campaign for racial justice and equality in... Appears in: 8 | The Civil Rights Movement Summer 2006
Basic Page All Upcoming Events All Upcoming Events May 2024 All Audiences Book Breaks Subscription Sunday, May 26, 2024 at 2:00 pm ET Dylan Penningroth, University of California, Berkeley Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights June...