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Stafford, Robert (fl. 1837-1866)
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Poster caption: In 1942 twenty-six nations signed the “Declaration by United Nations,” using the term “United Nations” for the first time. This Office of War Information poster from 1943 dramatically illustrates the forces assembled against the Axis in World War II.
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: President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address on November 19, 1863. It was reprinted in various newspapers and pamphlets and separately as a broadside. A very close reading reveals more than a dozen punctuational and substantive differences between the two printings reproduced here. On the left is the version authorized by the Soldiers’ National Cemetery Association at Gettysburg, printed in January 1864. On the right is the first separate printing of Lincoln’s speech, published in New York in March 1864 as a fundraiser for the New York Metropolitan Sanitary Fair.
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Poster caption: John F. Kennedy was the youngest man ever elected president and the first Roman Catholic. In his Inaugural Address, Kennedy challenged a “new generation” of Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.”
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.
The Twentieth Century: The United States and the World, 1898–1991 is the ninth volume in the award-winning History in a Box series. The twentieth century was one of tumultuous change, as social revolution, technical innovation and competition, and international events and relationships shaped the United States and its place in the world.
Contents include:
e-Resource Book, which provides 60+ annotated primary sources, photographs and other images, and a list of additional resources
a poster-size timeline of important twentieth-century events
a set of ten posters of documents and illustrations
Poster Caption: When men were recruited for the military in 1942, women took jobs in factories, laboratories, mills, government, and elsewhere. The War Manpower Commission used this poster of a woman working on an airplane flare to recruit desperately needed workers on the home front. (Government Printing Office, Washington DC, 1942, in 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: The War Manpower Commission, charged with recruiting seven million new workers in the first year of World War II, faced the problem of racial prejudice. This poster was part of the commission’s campaign to encourage all Americans to work together to win the war. (Government Printing Office, 1942, in 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: The Nazi German Student Association instigated book-burnings on May 10, 1933, across Germany to eradicate “the Un-German Spirit.” Ten years later, the US government engaged American support for World War II by reminding citizens what they were fighting against—and what they were fighting for. (Government Printing Office, 1943, in 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.
Teaching with Documents is a self-paced course with instructional videos and lesson plans for teachers of grades 5-12. Each video focuses on a different way to use primary sources to improve student content knowledge and core literacy skills. Teaching with Documents demonstrates the same tested, Common Core-aligned approach used in Gilder Lehrman’s Teaching Literacy through History™ professional development program.
Teaching with Documents includes
Five demonstration videos, each covering a different literacy strategy
Five classroom-ready teaching units, one for each demonstration video
An
Teaching with Documents: The Twentieth Century: 1946-2001contains seven lesson plans that cover key themes in the second half of the twentieth century, from the foundations of the Cold War and the civil rights and women’s rights movements through the Vietnam War and the 9/11 attacks in 2001.
Documents and graphic materials include speeches, letters, articles, cartoons, paintings, and video clips. This book also contains a 34” x 22” color timeline highlighting key moments and images from the second half of the twentieth century.
The Teaching with Documents book series, part of Gilder Lehrman’s
President Obama’s first inauguration on January 20, 2009, was made more dramatic by his designation of African American writer and scholar Elizabeth Alexander as the official poet of the occasion. Following in the tradition established by Robert Frost at John F. Kennedy’s inauguration, Alexander read her original composition “Praise Song for the Day”—a poem rich with allusions to American history and the promise of the nation’s future. (Praise Song for the Day, A Poem for Barack Obama’s Presidential Inauguration, January 20, 2009, ©2009 by Elizabeth Alexander, first published by Graywolf
Poster Caption: On the eve of the American Revolution, propaganda was created on both sides of the Atlantic. Here, British artist Philip Dawe depicts an attack on loyalist tax collector John Malcolm in Boston in 1774. In addition to the tarring and feathering of Malcolm, the print features the Boston Tea Party and symbols of revolutionary fervor—the liberty pole and cap and the overturned Stamp Act on the liberty tree. (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
Poster Caption: This map of the South China Sea, published by the US Navy in 1943, outlines Japan’s military and economic incursions in the region. The embedded text summarizes US relations with Southeast Asia between 1784 and 1925, and icons mark battles between Japan and the Allies through May 1942. (Printed by the Naval War College, 1943; courtesy Library of Congress Maps Division)
Show your support for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History with this 100% cotton canvas tote bag. This year's tote bag features World War I poster "Labor on the Home Front" (published by the Navy Department, 1918).
Poster Caption: Alexander Hamilton was unique among the Founding Fathers. He was an immigrant from the Caribbean, a disadvantaged orphan who became a war hero, and a self-made man who rose to become a framer of the Constitution and the architect of the American financial system. He was ahead of his time in his opposition to slavery and prescient about the need for a post-agrarian economy that developed industry and trade within a strong capitalist framework. Pictured here as a young officer in the Revolutionary War, Hamilton died in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr in 1804. (The Gilder
Poster Caption: With his marriage to Elizabeth Schuyler in 1780, Alexander Hamilton joined one of the wealthiest, most socially prominent families in New York and Elizabeth became the wife of a man widely recognized as a brilliant and patriotic rising star. Elizabeth would survive her husband by fifty years. She spent those decades doing charitable work and striving to preserve Hamilton's reputation and legacy. She co-founded and helped direct New York's first private orphanage, and in 1848 she and Dolley Madison raised funds to build the Washington Monument. (Mrs. Alexander Hamilton by Ralph
With the support of Martin Luther King Jr. and others, President Lyndon B. Johnson succeeded in getting Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, legislation that had been proposed by President Kennedy a year earlier. Here Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964, as King and other civil rights leaders look on, along with US senators and representatives. (Photograph by Cecil Stoughton, White House Photo Office, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library)
These posters are 22" x 30", full color, and printed on a semi-gloss white stock. Each one features a caption that
Born a slave, Romeo Smith of Windham, Maine, entered the Continental Army with the promise of freedom in exchange for military service. He served in the 7th Massachusetts for three years and was supposedly manumitted. Yet in January 1784, the threat of being reclaimed as a slave surfaced and Romeo sought the assistance of General Henry Knox. The document featured here is Knox’s retained draft certifying Smith’s freedom.
"This is to certify that the bearer hereof Romeo Smith is a free man, and has served three years in the Army of the United States of America. Any person [struck: going a]
Vivandieres, sometimes known as cantinieres, were women who followed the army to provide support for the troops. Ideally, a vivandiere would have been a young woman—the daughter of an officer or wife of a non-commissioned officer—who wore a uniform and braved battles to provide care for wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
The history of vivandieres can be traced to the French Zouave regiments in the Crimean War. By 1859, many local militia regiments in the United States had adopted the name "Zouave," wore colorful uniforms, and adopted the practice of having a "daughter of the regiment" in
George Tillotson from Greene, New York, enlisted with the 89th New York Infantry in November of 1861. This ambrotype (photograph made on glass) and a series of letters from the summer of 1862 remind us that soldiers and their families faced hardships on the home front as well as on the battlefield. George had been in the army for five months and was stationed at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, when his wife, Libby, sent him the photograph featured here. The photograph was damaged in the mail and began a heartbreaking series of correspondence.
April 19, 1862 – "Your letter of the 6th inst
One hundred years ago this weekend, the RMS Titanic sank, claiming the lives over 1,500 passengers and crew. In this account, Dr. Washington Dodge recounts his tale of survival. Written on board the RMS Carpathia during the three-day journey back to New York, this eyewitness account is one of the earliest and most compelling accounts of the disaster. Dodge’s handwriting and sentence phrasing offer a glimpse into his state of mind as he penned his testimony.
Excerpt:
When boat 13 was lowered to A deck to be loaded I went to this deck – After 8 or 10 women had been placed aboard, no [struck:
In 1836, Abraham Lincoln found himself in a tenuous situation. He was engaged to a woman he barely knew and didn’t want to marry. Mrs. Elizabeth Abell had been pushing for a romance between Lincoln and her sister, Mary Owens, whom Lincoln had met briefly in 1833. When Elizabeth went home to visit her family in Kentucky three years later, she said she would bring Mary back to Illinois if Lincoln would agree to marry her. Lincoln jokingly agreed. He realized the consequences of his rash statement when Mary came to New Salem and considered herself engaged. Lincoln immediately regretted his
What would be a better Mother’s Day present than learning that your child would be returning home from war? In 1919, thirty-year-old Lawrence Hopkins of the 305th Engineers was at the Forwarding Camp in Le Mans, France, awaiting orders to return home. On Wednesday, May 7, he wrote his mother in Ashtabula, Ohio, an early Mother’s Day letter in hopes he would be at sea by Sunday. With great excitement he announced the possibility of being home by Decoration Day (Memorial Day):
Forwarding Camp, Le Mans, FranceMay 7, 1919
Dear Mother:
It is my fond hope that this will be my last letter written
When the Civil War broke out, David McNeely Stauffer (1845–1913) was only sixteen years old. While attending Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania from September 1861 through June 1863, he served brief, emergency enlistments when the state of Pennsylvania was threatened by Robert E. Lee’s forces. He joined the 2nd Pennsylvania Emergency Regiment in September 1862 and served until winter. In June 1863, he joined in the defense of Gettysburg with the
Independent Battery of Pennsylvania. When Stauffer’s enlistment expired in January 1864, he briefly joined the Engineering Corps of the
On July 10, 1863, Confederate General Paul J. Semmes died from wounds he received at the Battle of Gettysburg eight days earlier. A set of materials in the Gilder Lehrman Collection paint a vivid image of a soldier and his family facing death.
On June 1, 1863, when Emily Semmes wrote her husband to update him on news of thier children and enclosing flowers like the ones she had carried in her bridal bouquet. Paul received the letter ten days in Culpepper City, Virginia and was particularly touched by the flowers. Two years of service far from home took its toll on the Georgian who wrote "When
Between the pages of his math exercise book John Barstow jotted down a patriotic tune called "The Amaricans Challing" on January 2, 1777. Carefully written in a youth’s unsteady hand, the text appears to be a transcript of a popular camp song from the Revolutionary era. How this declaration of patriotism found its way into Barstow’s math lessons is unknown. The book is filled with conversion tables for weights and measures, time and money tables, and multiplication and division tables in addition to mathematical problems. One can imagine a young child learning the song from a father or older