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March is Women’s History Month, a time to commemorate the significant role women played in shaping American history. The Gilder Lehrman Institute has numerous essays, primary sources, lesson plans, videos, and more on American women’s history. Explore a selection of resoures below, and click here to view a full list of resources :, Colonial America, Early Contacts: Native American and European Women in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries [Essay] “If Ever Two Were One”: Anne Bradstreet’s “To My Dear and Loving Husband” [Essay] The Age of Homespun: Family Labor in the Colonial Economy […
Tom Hirschfeld is a writer and investor. A New York Times bestselling author, he has written nonfiction books totaling over 1.5 million copies in print. From 2005 to 2016, Hirschfeld was chief operating officer of Halcyon Asset Management, a New York investment firm. He was previously managing director at J. & W. Seligman, where he managed a $1 billion venture capital portfolio and served as chief operating officer for investments. His earlier positions include partner at Patricof & Co. Ventures, assistant to the mayor of New York City, and vice president in corporate finance at…
Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities and Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President , which won the Lincoln Prize for 2000, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America , which won the Lincoln Prize for 2005, and Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America , which won the Abraham Lincoln Institute Prize for 2008. His book on the battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg: The Last Invasion was a New…
Lincoln and Churchill We are pleased to announce the latest publication by Lewis E. Lehrman, the co-founder of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, a renowned historian, and a National Humanities Medal winner. Lincoln & Churchill: Statesmen at War , provides a new perspective on two of the greatest English-speaking statesmen and their remarkable leadership in wars of national survival. In the first book-length comparison of these two renowned war leaders, Mr. Lehrman finds that Lincoln and Churchill—with very different upbringings and contrasting personalities—led their war efforts, to some…
High School Division, Click on the title to read a winning essay., First Prize, Lena Cohen, , Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina “One Hundred Years Later: The Failure of the Civil War Centennial”, Second Prize, Joseph Wang, , Pennsylvania Homeschoolers AP Online, Kittaning, Pennsylvania (based in Tianjin, China) “Running the ‘Machine’: How Greenbacks Funded the Union and Nationalized Its Currency”, Third Prize, Naomi Nguyen, , Patchogue-Medford High School, Medford, New York “The Civil War through the Eyes of a Child: Learning to Transition from Playtime to Wartime”,…
Annette Gordon-Reed is the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School and a professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. She was formerly the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (2010–2016) and the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Visiting Professor of American History at Queen’s College, University of Oxford (2014–2015). A renowned law professor and scholar of American history, Gordon-Reed has taught at the New York Law School and at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She has published…
Patrick Duff is currently a partner at the private investment firm of Dunham Partners, LLC, where he has worked for the past twenty-three years. Prior to joining Dunham Partners, he served as senior managing director at Tiger Management and has worked in asset management at Mitchell Hutchins and Capital Builders Advisory Services. In addition to his professional work in finance, Duff has served on several boards over his career. He currently serves as director for the Sealed Air Corporation and has previously served as a director for the Gerson Lehrman Group and the Association to Benefit…
Andrew Banks is the co-founder of Boston-based ABRY Partners, a leading private equity firm focused on the media and communications industry, where he served as chairman from 1989 to 2012. Prior to founding ABRY, Banks was a partner at Bain & Company where he shared responsibility for Bain’s global media practice. He was the producer of 2013’s highly acclaimed and award-winning music app John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes, and has been a director at Muzak Holdings LLC since 1999. He is a director of AMG International, Paradigm Consulting, Pinnacle Towers, AMGI Capital, and US Telemetry. In…
John D. Britton II was a principal and portfolio manager at Select Equity Group LP. Before joining the firm, he was a portfolio manager and analyst at US Trust Company in New York. Britton also worked for two years as a reporter at Grant’s Interest Rate Observer . He obtained an AB from Dartmouth College, cum laude, and an MBA from the Columbia Business School.
As part of our initiative to expand our twentieth-century holdings, the Gilder Lehrman Institute recently acquired a set of anti-communist trading cards from the 1950s. These cards are a dramatic example of the type of propaganda used on both sides during the Cold War to appeal to and stir up the emotions of the public. In 1951, a year into the Korean War, Bowman Gum, Inc., released a series of forty-eight trading cards entitled Fight the Red Menace: Children’s Crusade against Communism. These cards were designed to teach American children about the threatened spread of Communism. Each card…
Mary Caslin Ross has spent her career in philanthropy, serving the less fortunate and needy by designing solutions in her public policy and foundation executive positions. She lives in Santa Fe with her husband, Alex, and is a Visiting Senior Fellow at Classroom Inc., chaired by Lewis Bernard, and the New Criterion magazine, chaired by Roger Kimball. Ross was asked by Richard Gilder in November 2003 to work as executive consultant to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Tasked to create a development plan and raise funds for the national expansion of the Institute’s programs,…
Gladstone N. Jones, III, is the founding member and business manager of Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, LLC. He has served as lead counsel in litigation pending in New York, Florida, California, Mississippi, and Louisiana. In 2007, Jones was named one of the top 500 litigators in the United States. His practice focus is divided between complex commercial business disputes and toxic tort and environmental pollution matters involving landowners in the oil and gas industry. He has built a reputation in the legal community as a successful litigator and aggressive advocate. Because of his…
Luis A. Miranda, Jr., has almost four decades of experience as a leader in the public and private sectors. A native of Puerto Rico, Miranda was director of field services and research at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, and held managerial positions at the Community Service Society, the NYC Department of Employment, the NYC Board of Education, and Aspira of New York. In the 1980s he was a special advisor for hispanic affairs to Mayor Edward I. Koch, and served as director of the Mayor’s Office for Hispanic Affairs from 1987 to 1989. He was appointed to the Board of…
Report of a fight in Albany between Federalists and anti-Federalists, Freeman's Journal, July 16, 1788 (The Gilder Lehrman Collection, GLC00259.01, p1) Report of a fight in Albany between Federalists and anti-Federalists, Freeman's Journal, July 16, 1788 (The Gilder Lehrman Collection, GLC00259.01, p1) This month, the Institute is spotlighting a newspaper article describing a violent street brawl between Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The New York State ratifying convention began on June 16, 1788. In July 1788, Federalists marched through Albany, New York, and were blocked by a group of…
FIFTH-GRADE DIVISION, FIRST PLACE, Zachary Gwosden, Bullis Charter School, Los Altos, CA, SECOND PLACE, Chris Kim, Notre Dame Academy, Palisades Park, NJ, THIRD PLACE, Lauren Hoffman, Trinity Academy, Caldwell, NJ, FOURTH PLACE, Dario Ciabattoni, Brandywine Springs School, Wilmington, DE, FOURTH-GRADE DIVISION, FIRST PLACE, Jesse Stephens, Mossy Creek Elementary School, Cleveland, GA , SECOND PLACE, Taylor Drake, Weaver Elementary School, Los Alamitos, CA, THIRD PLACE, Maria DiMaggio, St. Bernadette School, Brooklyn, NY, FOURTH PLACE, Gabriela Manna, St. Bernadette School, Brooklyn, NY,…
Fifth-Grade Division, First Place, Sarah Lowe, Destin Middle School, Destin, FL, Second Place, Padmalakshmi Ramesh, Spring Creek Elementary School, Laramie, WY, Third Place, Allison Fleck, Richard B. Wilson K-8 School, Tuscon, AZ, Fourth Place, William Hendrix, Birch Wathen Lenox School, New York, NY, Fourth-Grade Division, First Place, Brandin Jordan, Notre Dame Academy, Palisades Park, NJ, Second Place, Alexi Meyers, Princeton Charter School, Princeton, NJ, Third Place, Dylan Stein, Captain Samuel Brown School, Peabody, MA, Fourth Place, Chau Vo, Martinson Elementary School, Marshfield, MA…
Jews rounded up during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, April or May 1943 (National Archives) Jews rounded up during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, April or May 1943 (National Archives) The Warsaw ghetto uprising began on April 19, 1943 w hen the Nazis tried to transport the remaining ghetto population to forced-labor centers and concentration camps. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had killed more than 7,000 Jews and deported almost 50,000 to the camps. A year later, in May 1944, Sylvia Weiner, a social worker in New York City, saw the film None Shall Escape ., Although it was produced during World War…
The 2018 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize will be awarded this evening to Edward L. Ayers for his new book, The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America , at the Union League Club in New York City. A highlight of this event each year is the attendance of the Gilder Lehrman Civil War Essay Contest winners, each of whom receives an expenses-paid trip to the ceremony. This annual contest is open students in grades 6–12 and asks them to examine the nation’s most divisive conflict through letters, speeches, songs, photographs, newspapers, military orders, and…
Award Ceremony to Take Place at Mount Vernon on May 23, MOUNT VERNON, VA – Author and historian Kevin J. Hayes has won the coveted George Washington Prize, including an award of $50,000, for his new book, George Washington: A Life in Books (Oxford University Press). One of the nation’s largest and most prestigious literary awards, now in its 13th year, the George Washington Prize honors its namesake by recognizing the year’s best new books on the nation’s founding era, especially those that engage a broad public audience. Conferred by George Washington’s Mount Vernon, the Gilder Lehrman…
The 54th Regiment from Massachusetts, composed of volunteers, was the first African American regiment organized by the Union Army during the American Civil War. It is perhaps best known for leading the charge on Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, on July 18, 1863. The regiment suffered devestating losses, but its bravery became a rallying point for the Union Army and inspiration in the recruitment of African American soldiers. The 54th Regiment, which fought on through 1865, inspired many monuments, paintings, and, in 1989, a favorite film of American history teachers and…
NEW YORK CITY, February 8, 2019, – Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster), is the recipient of the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. A noted Civil War historian, Blight is Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University and directs the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. He will be recognized during an event hosted by Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American…
Thanks to the generosity of a group of African American business and civic leaders, the Gilder Lehrman Institute is pleased to present a special offer only for Title I-eligible schools: a Gilder Lehrman Institute-exclusive printing of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight. Named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times , the Wall Street Journal , and Time , and winner of the 2019 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize , this book is a definitive, dramatic biography of arguably the most important African American public figure of the nineteenth century: Frederick…
David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University David Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale University and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University Gettysburg College and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History have announced that David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster), is the recipient of the 2019 Gilder…
Cathy Lee , Mississippi History Teacher of the Year , Cathy Lee, Petal Middle School, Petal, Mississippi Cathy Lee, Petal Middle School, Petal, Mississippi Since 2004, 749 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US territories have been named State History Teacher of the Year . The National History Teacher of the Year is named in the fall. The 2018 State History Teachers of the Year were asked informal questions by the Gilder Lehrman Institute. , Do you have a favorite/funny moment…