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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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The Lewis and Clark Expedition

View a full-screen version of The Lewis and Clark Exhibition . Learn more about the Louisiana Purchase in Elliott West’s essay " America the Newcomer: Claiming the Louisiana Purchase " and a printed copy of the map Meriwether Lewis and William Clark created after returning from the Pacific.

Lewis and Clark's Expedition Sets Off Up the Missouri River: May 14, 1804

Congratulations to George Washington Prize Recipient Lin-Manuel Miranda!

Lin-Manuel Miranda at the George Washington Prize Lin-Manuel Miranda at the George Washington Prize On Monday, December 14 , Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of Broadway’s hit musical  Hamilton, received the George Washington Prize. Miranda became the first playwright to win the literary award in an exciting ceremony that included remarks from Ron Chernow — author of the Alexander Hamilton biography that inspired the musical — and a song from the show performed by Christopher Jackson, the musical ’ s very own George Washington, along with Hamilton 's Sydney James Harcourt and Lin-Manuel…

Soldier Spotlight: Diary of a Sailor on the Eve of Pearl Harbor

Thomas Barwiss Hagstoz Askin Jr. joined the US Navy in March 1938 at the age of 17. His diary, entitled "Memorys and Incidents of My Last 60 (?) Days in the United States Navy," begins on August 14, 1941, when he was stationed on board USS Memphis and counting down the days until his enlistment was up on October 13, one day before his 21st birthday. Thomas B. H. Askin, Memorys and Incidents of My Last 60(?) Days in the United St Thomas B. H. Askin, Memorys and Incidents of My Last 60(?) Days in the United States Navy, 1941. (Gilder Lehrman Collection) Unfortunately, Memphis was at sea in…

The Night After Christmas

The phrase "’Twas the night before Christmas," from Clement Moore’s "A Visit from St. Nicholas" is familiar to most of us, but less familiar is the poem, "The Night after Christmas," written by Dr. Robert Archer. Archer, born in 1794 in Norfolk, Virginia, wrote the parody for his granddaughter in 1866. The poem describes the aftermath of the visit from "Old Santa Claus," showing the disastrous effects of overindulgence: "The Night after Christmas," by Robert Archer, 1866 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) "The Night after Christmas," by Robert Archer, 1866 (Gilder Lehrman Collection) ’Twas the night…

The Emancipation Proclamation: On This Day, January 1

As the nation approached the third year of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free." Explore the details of this important document. View a full-screen version of this exhibit. For more on the Emancipation Proclamation, read Allen Guelzo’s essay, " The Emancipation Proclamation: Bill of Lading or Ticket to Freedom? " and watch Matthew Pinsker’s video, " Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation ."

Bert the Turtle Ducks and Covers

Today’s school children are familiar with fire drills, earthquake drills, tornado drills, and even tsunami drills. Filing out-doors to athletic fields or hiding under desks from imaginary natural disaster debris is expected, scheduled, and routine. Parents and grandparents of these students, however, likely remember duck-and-cover drills. During the Cold War , nuclear war with the Soviet Union seemed constantly on the horizon. Adults around the United States built fallout shelters and stocked their basements with canned food, water, and safety supplies. Children learned to "duck and cover"…

Henry Ford Introduces the Minimum Wage: On This Day, January 5

Assembly line at the Ford Motor Company's Highland Park plant, ca. 1913 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) Assembly line at the Ford Motor Company's Highland Park plant, ca. 1913 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division) On January 5, 1914, automaker Henry Ford made history by instituting a $5-a-day wage. The move made national news. Five dollars a day constituted  double  the industry norm—and double the pay of most of Ford’s own employees. At the same time, Ford reduced the working day from nine hours to eight—becoming one of the first companies in America to…

Common Sense Published: On This Day, January 10

Did you know that the most popular written work in American history was published before America was an actual nation of its own? On January 10, 1776, six months before the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress, Thomas Paine published his explosive pro-independence pamphlet, Common Sense . The polemical work, which sold one copy for every five people living in the colonies, is famous not only for its revolutionary anti-monarchy message, but for the language with which Paine delivered that message. "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and…

Fanny Farmer Tells America How to Cook: On This Day, January 11

Happy Birthday, Hamilton: On This Day, January 11

Alexander Hamilton was born on this day, either in 1755 or 1757 (historians debate the year). Explore Hamilton’s life and legacy in this interactive digital exhibit.

Ulysses S. Grant Raises Funds for the Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty has long welcomed newcomers to the United States as a shining beacon of freedom and opportunity in the middle of New York Harbor. Children are taught that the Statue of Liberty was gifted to the United States by the people of France, commemorating the long-lasting alliance between the two nations. Beyond that, however, how much does the average American really know about the Statue of Liberty? Although the structure was designed and delivered by France, the US agreed to construct a pedestal for the statue. The US officials responsible for raising the necessary $250,000…

How Sideburns Got Their Name

Ambrose Everett Burnside (Gilder Lehrman Collection) Ambrose Everett Burnside (Gilder Lehrman Collection) Either you love ’em or you hate ’em. Everyone has an opinion on sideburns, and few fashion choices provoke quite so much controversy. Yet sideburns have a rich history that can be appreciated by supporters and detractors alike. Sideburns got their name from Ambrose Burnside, a Union general who sported the distinctive hairstyle. Although Burnside served briefly as the commander of the Army of the Potomac and as the first president of the National Rifle Association (NRA), he is best…

Inside the Vault: George Wallace on Segregation, 1964

Read an excerpt of the letter written by George Wallace  and explore the online exhibition  Freedom Riders , detailing the struggle for civil rights when Wallace was governor.

Martin Luther King Day

This weekend, our country celebrates the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., a Baptist minister and activist who became one of the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Throughout his life, which was cut too short by his tragic assassination in 1968, Dr. King played key roles in many of the important events of the Civil Rights Movement. In 1955, he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a political and social campaign against segregation on public transportation in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1957, he helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) , an important civil rights…

Inside the Vault: Long Journey of Civil Rights

Read an essay about the abolitionist Grimke sisters and the essay  " The Civil Rights Movement: Major Events and Legacies "  to explore the long struggle for civil rights.

Happy National Handwriting Day!

Did you have a good National Handwriting Day? What? You didn’t know that penmanship-appreciators across the nation celebrate January 23 as National Handwriting Day? The rising popularity of typewriters and word processors in the 20th century, and today’s culture of quippy texts and tweets have led many to mourn the decline of penmanship. The Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) instated this little-known holiday in 1977 in the hopes of combating handwriting malaise. WIMA chose January 23 in honor of the Founding Father with the most iconic—and sizeable —signature, John Hancock…

Inside the Vault: 19th-Century Photography

Read about photography in the 19th century , explore select images from the American Civil War , and create your own Civil War-era portrait .

Progressive Era Reform Movements at a Glance

Are you teaching the Progressive Era this spring? Use the infographic below to provide your students an overview of the reform movements that make the Progressive Era stand out as a time of massive social, political, and economic change.  To view "Progressive Era Reform Movements" in History by Era, click  here . To print the infographic as a PDF, click  here . 

Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freeedom

As part of a Google Cultural Institute initiative on African American history, the Gilder Lehrman Institute created six digital exhibits featuring Gilder Lehrman’s rich materials relating to African American history. In celebration of Black History Month, we will be sharing these exhibits throughout the month. In honor of yesterday’s Google Doodle , here’s our Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freedom digital exhibit. Read a letter from Douglass to his former owner and his views on Jim Crow .

African Americans in the US Military: From the Revolution to the World Wars

Despite unfair compensation, segregation , and even legal bars on military service, African Americans have served in every conflict in United States history . Take a peek at the next digital exhibition in Gilder Lehrman’s Black History Month initiative, created through a partnership with the Google Cultural Institute. ( Click here to launch the interactive feature in a new window. ) You can see more essays, videos, online exhibitions, and primary sources on African American history .

Gilder Lehrman Featured on Google Doodle

We are thrilled to contribute to today’s Google Doodle honoring Frederick Douglass. Today is the first day of Black History Month, and the approximate date of Frederick Douglass’s 198th birthday. Gilder Lehrman contributed to today’s Frederick Douglass Doodle in two ways. On the Google homepage, click  " Explore the life and work of Frederick Douglass "  to be routed to the Google Cultural Institute’s Black History and Culture series. Our Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freedom exhibit is today’s featured exhibit. As part of a Google Cultural Institute initiative on African American…

Congratulations to Ada Ferrer, Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Ada Ferrer, profess o r of history and Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University, was awarded the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Thursday night in a ceremony at the  Y ale Club in New York City. The award, which recognizes Ferrer ’ s book Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution , was presented by David Blight, director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.  Ada Ferrer holds her award alongside Gilder Lehrman President James Basker and D Ada Ferrer holds her award alongside Gilder Lehrman President James Basker and…

Abolitionism

The movement to end slavery has existed in various forms throughout American history, but the abolitionist movement slowly gained ground as a political force in our country through the mid-nineteenth century. Take a peek at the next digital exhibition in Gilder Lehrman’s Black History Month initiative, created through a partnership with the Google Cultural Institute. Click here to launch the interactive feature in a new window. Explore more essays, videos, online exhibitions, and primary sources on African American history .

A Black Soldier’s Civil War Diary

Diary of William Woodlin, an African American soldier in the 8th Regiment United States Colored Troops, Company G (Gilder Lehrman Collection) Diary of William Woodlin, an African American soldier in the 8th Regiment United States Colored Troops, Company G (Gilder Lehrman Collection) Written by Stephanie Townrow and Mary Kate Kwasnik . William Woodlin enlisted in the United States Colored Infantry 8th Regiment in October 1863. Remarkably, Woodlin kept a journal during his service with the US Colored Troops. Woodlin’s brief entries describe camp life, his service with the regimental band as a…

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