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Title: A Man's Life: An Autobiography

GLC09927

Title: Jackie Robinson: An Intimate Portrait

GLC09928

Title: Remarks of Mr. Thomas of Massachusetts

GLC09929

Title: A War Reminiscence by Frances B. Ormsbee

First a manuscript copy and then typed.

GLC03523.09.59

Title: Leather case and one cent coin

GLC03523.17.21

1973-1974

Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One petition from the Grass Roots Impeachment Movement to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated 1973-1974. The Grass Roots Impeachment Movement support the impeachment of President Nixon. One page of a petition, listing 12 names with addresses. It reads in part, "We, the undersigned, believe our nation was founded on the principle that no citizen is above the law, and every citizen is entitled to a fair trial on charges of wrongdoing. Accordingly we ask the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon to assure him of a fair trial on the charges that he has conspired in obstruction of justice, subornation of perjury, subversion, illegal surveillance and other unlawful activities."

GLC09613.02.0216

1973-1974

Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One petition from the Grass Roots Impeachment Movement to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated 1973-1974. The Grass Roots Impeachment Movement support the impeachment of President Nixon. One page of a petition, listing 12 names with addresses. It reads in part, "We, the undersigned, believe our nation was founded on the principle that no citizen is above the law, and every citizen is entitled to a fair trial on charges of wrongdoing. Accordingly we ask the impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon to assure him of a fair trial on the charges that he has conspired in obstruction of justice, subornation of perjury, subversion, illegal surveillance and other unlawful activities."

GLC09613.02.0221.16

1973-1974

Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One letter from Valerie Dossi to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated 1973-1974. Dossi supports the impeachment of President Nixon.

GLC09613.02.0247

1973-1974

Title: to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead

One letter from Susan E. Nilsen to Congressman Carlos J. Moorhead dated 1973-1974. Nilsen supports the impeachment of President Nixon. She believes that Nixon is a terrible person and writes, "As a fellow Republican, it must pain you greatly to see the illegal things Mr. Nixon has done and is doing."

GLC09613.02.0255

n.d.

Title: Invitation

Invitation.

GLC03523.24.125

no date

Title: [Extract from J.Q. Adams' Diary and other articles]

Pages 145- 156 of unknown book

JB00589

Title: Engraving of William Wilberforce

GLC09791.0035

Title: Various press photographs, 1958-1977

GLC09794

Title: Various photographs, 1966-1981

GLC09795

Title: Signed lithographs of astronauts Vance Brand and Sally Ride

GLC09797

Title: Signed photographs of Mikhail Gorbachev

GLC09796

Title: Photographs and letter signed by Jesse Owens

GLC09798

1788

Title: The Padlock

JB00128

1788

Title: The Padlock

JB00129

1769

Title: The Padlock

JB00130

February 1970

Title: Alcatraz: Indians of All Tribes [Volume 1, No.2, February 1970]

One newsletter entitled, "Alcatraz: Indians of All Tribes," dated February 1970.

GLC09792

Title: Collection of 19 items related to the Apollo 11 moon landing

GLC09799

Title: [Portrait of Rosa Parks]

One undated photograph of Rosa Parks at a microphone.

GLC09778.02

Title: [Portrait of Rosa Parks]

One undated candid photograph of Rosa Parks with carnation brooch pinned to her blouse.

GLC09778.03

Title: WWII Newsmap published by the War Department Bureau of Public Relations

GLC09865

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Yellow Fever 1793

Essay

Richard Brookhiser

The Influenza of 1918 and the Coronavirus of 2020: Some Parallels and Differences

Essay

John M. Barry

Invisible Threats and the Politics of Disaster: Three Mile Island and Covid-19

Essay

Natasha Zaretsky

History in the Making: COVIDCalls and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Essay

Scott Gabriel Knowles and Bucky Stanton, Scott Gabriel Knowles, Bucky Stanton

Excerpt from Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, "Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People During the Late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the Year 1793" (1794), with an introduction by James G. Basker

Essay

Absalom Jones and Richard Allen, Absalom Jones, Richard Allen

The Importance of Studying Disasters: Ideas and Advice for the Classroom

Essay

Liz Skilton

From the Editor

Essay

Carol Berkin

Black Volunteers in the Nation’s First Epidemic, 1793

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Absalom Jones and Richard Allen

The Map Proves It, ca. 1919

Spotlight on: Primary Source

An appeal for suffrage support, 1871

Spotlight on: Primary Source

National Woman Suffrage and Educational Committee

Voting restrictions for African Americans, 1944

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Committee of Editors and Writers of the South

Thomas Rowe and Joshua Hooper: Sedition charges, 1815

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and The Yankee

The Sedition Act, 1798

Spotlight on: Primary Source

Benjamin Russell

Murder on the Frontier: The Paxton Massacre

Lesson Plan

Ron Nash and John McNamara

The Soldier's Experience: Letters from Four American Wars

Lesson Plan

Nathan McAlister

Immigration

Online Exhibition

Inside the Vault: Lucy Knox: Loyalist’s Daughter, Patriot’s Wife, and Witness to the American Revolution

Video

Gilder Lehrman Staff

"Soldier for Equality: Jose de la Luz Saenz and the Great War"

Video

Duncan Tonatiuh (Author and Illustrator)

"The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery"

Video

Jehan Jones-Radgowski (author) and Poppy Kang (Illustrator)

Inside the Vault: Civil War Diaries of William Woodlin, 8th USCT, & Cyrena Hammond

Video

Gilder Lehrman Staff

"Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII"

Video

Marissa Moss (Author) and Yuko Shimizu (Illustrator)

Suggested Resources on the War of 1812 from the Archivist

Essay

Mary-Jo Kline

The Transnational Nature of the Progressive Era

Essay

Daniel T. Rodgers

Lincoln and Abolitionism

Essay

Douglas L. Wilson

Every Citizen a Soldier: World War II Posters on the American Home Front

Essay

Harry Rubenstein, William L. Bird Jr.

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Inside the Vault: JFK Assassination Ticker Tape

Read a transcript of the Dow Jones News Service ticker tape and read about the power of John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address in Great Inaugural Addresses:  History Now  36 (Summer 2013) .

Inside the Vault: The Gettysburg Address

Read about the Gettysburg Address or watch the lecture "The Eloquent President: A Portrait of Lincoln through His Words" by Professor Ronald C. White of the University of California, Los Angeles.

Booker T. Washington Dines with Theodore Roosevelt, Americans Outraged

In October of 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House. As the founder of the Tuskegee Institute  and a respected leader of the African American community , Washington was an important ally for Roosevelt. The new president needed advice about appointments in the South and about the black vote, and looked to Washington for guidance. Roosevelt had previously hosted African Americans for dinner at the New York governor’s mansion, and African Americans had previously attended events at the White House. The invitation to dinner, however—and its…

Articles of Confederation: On This Day, November 17

The Articles of Confederation, 1777 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) The Articles of Confederation, 1777 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) A day after appointing a committee to write the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress named another committee to write the Articles of Confederation . The members worked from June 1776 until November 17, 1777, when they sent a draft to the states for ratification. Maryland was the last state to ratify, holding out until March 1, 1781. More of a treaty—or a "firm league of friendship"—than a constitution, the Articles of Confederation in no way…

NPS to Establish Manhattan Project Park

What was once the biggest secret in America is being commemorated in public—building the bomb. The National Park Service and the Department of Energy announced last week the establishment of three national historic parks at Manhattan Project sites. The three sites, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Hanford, Washington, will commemorate the places where work on the atomic bomb was completed during World War II. In a White House ceremony last week, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz expressed a desire to tell a complete story of the atomic bomb…

The Uprising of the 20,000: On This Day, November 23

In 1909 a young immigrant woman made a speech in Yiddish that galvanzied a meeting of garment workers into what became a massive, and ultimately successful, strike. Twenty thousand workers followed Clara Lemlich into the streets of New York. Strikers, mostly women, were supported by professional organizers and women of other classes through the National Women ’s Trade Union League (NWTUL) and the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union (ILGWU). The strike lasted two months and won many concessions on wages and working conditions. Lemlich’s own factory, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory ,…

Happy Birthday, Mark Twain: On This Day, November 30

Samuel L. Clemens in rocking chair, 1906. Samuel L. Clemens in rocking chair, 1906. Mark Twain famously said that he had come in with Halley’s Comet in 1835 and expected to go out with it on its return journey. Indeed, Twain did die in 1910 as the comet was making its return pass. In the intervening years Twain became, and remains, one of America’s most beloved writers. The Mark Twain Project at UC Berkeley allows Twain fans access to Twain’s personal and published writings. You can delve into more than 2,400 letters written in the years 1853–1880, each with notes to provide context. All…

Thanksgiving as a National Holiday

Read an excerpt from Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863 or learn more about the history of Thanksgiving as a national holiday .

The Fifteenth Amendment and Voting Rights for African Americans

As we approach the end of November, a month filled with elections and gratitude, let’s take a look back at the Fifteenth Amendment, which granted voting rights to African Americans, and explore a print that celebrates its ratification and shows hope for the future. Read an essay about the Reconstruction Amendments  or listen to Professor Eric Foner speak about Reconstruction and Citizenship .

Rosa Parks Refuses to Move: On This Day, December 1

On December 1, 1955, after a long day of work as a seamstress, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and took a seat.  Parks on a Montgomery city bus in 1956 Parks on a Montgomery city bus in 1956 (Library of Congress) Parks, a black woman, took a seat in the first row of seats in the rear "colored section." ( In mid-20th-century Montgomery, under the Jim Crow laws , the first few rows of seats in public buses were reserved for white passengers, while African American passengers were made to sit in the back rows.) As the bus seats filled up, Parks, along with…

John Brown Executed: On This Day, December 2

On December 2, 1859, John Brown went to the gallows for his failed raid on the arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. Brown was a polarizing figure. In the image to the left , based on an incident reported in the New York Tribune that later proved to be apocryphal, he appears almost saintlike. Contrast that portrayal with this wild-eyed portrait by Ole Peter Hansen Balling. Left: The Last Moments of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden (Metropolitan Museum of Art); Right: John Brown, by Ole Peter Hansen Balling (National Portrait Gallery) Left: The Last Moments of John Brown, by Thomas Hovenden (…

An African American Protests the Fugitive Slave Law: On This Day, December 4

The Compromise of 1850 included the controversial Fugitive Slave Law that allowed for the seizure of alleged runaway slaves without due process and prohibited any obstruction to their recovery. Escaped slaves living in the North became fearful of capture and many moved to Canada. Henry Weeden to Watson Freeman, December 4, 1850 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) Following the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, the Underground Railroad became more active, and abolitionists protested the "reign of terror to the colored population." Henry Weeden, a free African A merican and an abolitionist in Boston,…

Inside the Vault: The Calhoun School Cyanotype Album

Calhoun School teachers, Alabama, photographed by Richard Riley, ca. 1870-1900 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) Calhoun School teachers, Alabama, photographed by Richard Riley, ca. 1870-1900 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) With its staff of white and African American teachers, the Calhoun School was not the norm in the Jim Crow South. Read a letter written by Frederick Douglass on Jim Crow practices in education and other professions.

Happy New Year from the Gilder Lehrman Institute

This hand-drawn card comes from Horatio Loomis Wait’s papers in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Wait, from New York and Chicago, served in the US Navy from July 1862 through July 1870. His letters home often included sketches of mid-19th-century family life.

Celebrate the Student Essay!

Students at a school in Connecticut, 1942 (Library of Congress) Students at a school in Connecticut, 1942 (Library of Congress) As the best-books-of-the-year lists proliferate, it’s time to remind ourselves to nurture young writers. Here at the Gilder Lehrman Institute we have a great way for history teachers to highlight their students’ achievements. It’s the time-honored tradition of the student essay contest. (FYI: Your school needs to be a Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School to participate. Find out how easy it is to join .) The youngest group, students in grades 2–5, are asked to help the…

Attack on Pearl Harbor: On This Day, December 7

Shortly before 8 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack against US armed forces in Hawaii. The Japanese targeted the Army, Navy, and Marine airfields before bombing the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The bombardment lasted nearly two hours and left 2,403 Americans dead and another 1,178 wounded. Two hours after the attack, Japan officially declared war on the United States. Life changed overnight across the United States as the nation geared up for war.    Visit the Gilder Lehrman Collection exhibition of Pearl Harbor photographs and documents at the New-York…

Learn to Make a Gigapixel for Image Analysis

Have you ever wanted to really dive deep into an image from history? Get in close to that little figure in the corner? Read the cartoon captions without a magnifying glass? The Gigapixel tool from StoryMapJS will help you do just that. It’s simple. Just watch the video below or print out our handy Gigapixel Tutorial Gigapixel Tutorial , and you’re on your way . Find out how to use other online tools from our Digital Literacy Toolbox . Explore two Gigapixel features from the Gilder Lehrman Collection below.

Inside the Vault: John Adams Describes the "Ten Talents" of George Washington

Read a transcript of the "Ten Talents" of George Washington letter written by John Adams.

The Amendment That Transformed the Nation: On This Day, December 18

One hundred and fifty years ago today, the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment was proclaimed by Secretary of State William Seward. Abraham Lincoln had fought to get the amendment passed by the Senate and the House, but he did not live to see this "glorious consummation" of his hope to end slavery. Read more about Abraham Lincoln’s fight to bring about the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment .

Sherman’s Christmas Present: On This Day, December 22

Anthem celebrating Sherman's March, ca. 1864-1865 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) Anthem celebrating Sherman's March, ca. 1864-1865 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) On December 22, 1864, Union General William T. Sherman sent a message to President Lincoln from Georgia, saying, "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, and also about twenty-five thousand bales of cotton." From November 15 until December 21, Sherman had led his notoriously destructive "March to the Sea" from the captured city of Atlanta to Savannah.…

Inside the Vault: Slave Tags

Read about the Facts of the Slave Trade and Slavery and the Material Culture of Slave Resistance .

Inside the Vault: George Washington Crossing the Delaware

Read an excerpt of the Orders to March on Trenton and watch a video on Washington’s Crossing .

Inside the Vault: Davie Jeems Stands Up to the KKK

Read an excerpt of the letter to Davie Jeems . 

Holiday Dinner with the Nuclear Family

As the winter holidays draw close and Americans everywhere travel to celebrate with their loved ones, it is important to remember how one should act when having dinner with family. The 1950 Encyclopedia Britannica film  A Date with Your Family  offers some helpful advice for interacting with parents and siblings. Created as an educational tool for teenagers, the film reinforces values of conformity and traditional gender roles by focusing on the ideal  Cold War–era family . Father works hard at the office to provide for his family while mother keeps a welcoming home. The teenaged brother and…

Discover Two New Gilder Lehrman Self-Paced Courses

The Gilder Lehrman Institute is excited to announce the addition of two new self-paced courses, Emancipation and The Kennedy Presidency , to our Self-Paced Course Series . This series offers graduate-level courses in American history taught by eminent historians, available to watch or listen to at your own time and pace.   Emancipated slave children Isaac and Rosa, 1863. (Gilder Lehrman Collection) Emancipation explores the social and political history of the emancipation of four million slaves during the Civil War. The course goes beyond the Emancipation Proclamation to discover the long and…

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