6 April
Stafford, Robert (fl. 1837-1866)
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GLC02618.089
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Poster Caption: Against a background of African American patriotism, self-sacrifice, and courage, an idealized black soldier takes his leave in this World War I recruiting poster. More than 350,000 African Americans, trained and deployed in segregated units, served in the US military during the war, of whom 42,000 saw action in Europe. (Print by E. G. Renesch, Chicago, Illinois, 1918)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss ivory stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster Caption: This World War I recruiting poster invokes the memory of Abraham Lincoln and the bravery of black troops to inspire African Americans to sign up. Ultimately, some 350,000 African Americans enlisted and served in World War I, although in segregated units. (Charles Gustrine, Chicago, Ill., 1918)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster Caption: By juxtaposing World War II soldiers with idealized Revolutionary War soldiers from 1778, this 1943 poster encourages Americans to understand World War II as part of the nation’s history and purpose since its founding. (Office of War Information, Washington, DC, 1943)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster Caption: In September 1957, after school integration was federally mandated, nine courageous black teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas, were the first African American students to enroll at Central High School. Elizabeth Eckford (pictured here) and her fellow students were screamed at and harassed, and the National Guard was called on to escort the students and quell rioting. Of the nine students, three went on to graduate from Central High, while six completed their education elsewhere. (Photograph, September 6, 1957)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss
Poster Caption: In the summer of 1963, nine years after the US Supreme Court overthrew the doctrine of “separate but equal” in public education (Brown v. Board of Education), parents of African American children joined with the NAACP to protest unfair educational practices in St. Louis, Missouri. They demanded, in particular, an increase in the number of minority teachers, the redrawing of school district boundaries, and an end to intact busing, which brought black students to white schools but kept them in segregated classes running on a different time schedule from the white students’
Abolitionists had campaigned since the late 1780s on the motto “Am I not a man and a brother?” This placard carried by striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968 echoes that rhetoric and emphatically answers the question. Martin Luther King Jr. marched with the striking workers and, on April 3, addressed them with his “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” speech. He was assassinated the next evening, April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLC06124)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a
Based on advice from classroom teachers, we have revised the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s signature booklet of historic documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Among the new items in this 4th edition are nine documents from the twentieth century. Each document is accompanied by an image, a transcript, and a brief introduction to place it in historical context. paperback; 76pp
The constitutional legacy of the Dred Scott case has been long lasting. What started as a “freedom suit” filed by Dred Scott and his wife in the St. Louis Circuit Court in 1846 erupted into a US Supreme Court case that ended in 1857. Read about the case details and political consequences surrounding one of the most infamous court decisions of our time. This booklet also includes a timeline of important dates.
This CD includes fourteen narrated Civil War letters and more than sixty Civil War photographs from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, as well as recordings of twelve Civil War songs along with printable lyrics. This item is also included in the Abraham Lincoln History in a Box.
Historians on the Record: Slavery and Abolition (DVD) includes eight lectures by leading American history scholars on various topics surrounding slavery and its subsequent abolition. Speakers include James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton, David Blight, Ira Berlin, Philip Morgan, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., David Brion Davis, Catherine Clinton, and David Reynolds.
Poster Caption: This elaborate and stinging broadside, replete with detailed evidence, was published by the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1836 to condemn the persistence of slavery in the nation’s capital. It was not until April 1862 that Congress passed and Abraham Lincoln signed into law the bill that ended slavery in Washington, DC. (Broadside published by the American Anti-Slavery Society in New York, 1836)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster Caption: This World War II poster seeks to stir American support for the war by systematically exposing the untruth of Nazi propaganda. (Office of War Information, Washington, DC, 1942)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss ivory stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster Caption: After the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, posters such as this broadcast a national call for black men to enlist in the Union army. Frederick Douglass (third name, left column) and other African American leaders endorsed the appeal, and by war’s end almost 200,000 African Americans had served in the Union forces. (Philadelphia, 1863)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss ivory stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster Caption: The fatigue and strain of three years of war show in this photograph of President Lincoln, taken eleven days before he gave the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the national cemetery near the battlefield. (Photograph taken November 8, 1863, by Alexander Gardner, Washington DC)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss ivory stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster Caption: This recruiting poster of 1863 uses images of the past (deliverance from slavery) and the future (education and civil rights) to inspire African Americans to enlist and fight for the Union. By the end of the war, some 200,000 African Americans—like those seen going into battle at upper right—had served the Union forces.
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss ivory stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.\
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Poster caption: Anti-slavery advocates in 1861 invoked founding-era poet Joel Barlow to decry the evils of slavery and to connect Union goals to the freedom-loving ideals of the American Revolution. The lines here are quoted from Barlow’s Columbiad, of 1807, based on his Vision of Columbus, first published in 1787.
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster caption: After the Battle of Antietam in September 1862, President Lincoln traveled to Maryland to meet with his officers. He was not happy with General George McClellan’s failure to pursue the retreating Confederates. Something of McClellan’s attitude toward Lincoln may be discerned from his posture in this photograph (McClellan, center left, faces Lincoln). (The Gilder Lehrman Collection)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster caption: In a surprise move in the midst of the Cold War, President Richard Nixon (at right) traveled to the Communist People’s Republic of China to forge ties that would counterbalance Soviet influence and open new paths for economic and political progress. Nixon met privately with Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party. (Photograph, February 29, 1972. Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library & Museum)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster caption: In December 1987, President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev of the Soviet Union held a historic summit in Washington DC. The two leaders signed the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, the first treaty to limit nuclear arms—signaling a significant shift in the Cold War between the superpowers. (Photograph, December 8, 1987. Courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
During World War I, posters such as this one encouraged men working on the home front, including both black and white workers, to equate their labor with the exertions of men on the battlefield, and to recognize that they were as important as soldiers to the success of the war. Published by the Navy Department, 1918.
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
This World War I poster urges recent European immigrants to conserve food that could feed American and other Allied troops and, eventually, refugees in Europe. It also appeals to their affinity for their new country and gives them a useful way on the home front to support the war effort. It was printed in different languages, including Yiddish, Italian, and Lithuanian, to reach the widest possible audience. Published by the United States Food Administration, 1917.
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, pulled the United States into World War II. This poster, displaying a damaged but vibrant star-spangled banner flying at half-staff with a quotation from Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address of 1863, was published after the attack as the US ramped up war production and military enlistment. Published by the Office of War Information, 1942.
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster caption: The familiar character of Uncle Sam promotes national security in the midst of World War II in this poster by Mexican-born artist Leon Helguera. Published by the Office of War Information, 1943.
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.
Poster caption: Due to a shortage of nurses during World War II, the government funded a US Cadet Nurse Corps to recruit young women as military and civilian nurses. This poster emphasizes the long-term educational and career opportunities for women, even after the war. Published by the US Public Health Service, 1944.
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that places the image in historical context.