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Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy

Jeremi Suri

World History

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Henry Kissinger is one of the most controversial figures to emerge from the Cold War. He participated as a soldier, scholar, and statesman in many of the most significant policy debates of the period. He acted as an intellectual, diplomat, and White House official, implementing some of the most enduring shifts in international affairs. Most of all, Henry Kissinger appeared throughout the global media as a genius, villain, and consummate manipulator who wielded power at the most important points in recent history. Kissinger’s diverse experiences, and the varied public perceptions...
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27 | The Cold War Spring 2011
History Now Essay

Robert Johnson and the Rise of the Blues

Elijah Wald

In November of 1936, a young man named Robert Johnson traveled from Mississippi to San Antonio, Texas, for his first recording session with the American Record Corporation. He was twenty-five years old and had already hoboed and hitchhiked north to Chicago and east to New York, playing guitar and singing for anyone who would listen. His music was a potent fusion of older styles learned from local musicians in the rural Delta and Memphis with the latest sounds on records, radio, and jukeboxes. His friend Johnny Shines would later recall that Johnson was terrifically versatile and...
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48 | Jazz, the Blues, and American Identity Summer 2017
Video: Inside The Vault

Inside the Vault: "Your future rests… in your hands!”

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Keisha Rembert, Assistant Professor of Teacher Preparation, National Louis University, and Nate McAlister, History Educator at Seaman High School in Topeka, Kansas, joined the Gilder Lehrman Collection curators in this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on July 24, 2020, to explore an unusual historical source: a comic book. Produced by the NAACP, “Your future rests… in your hands!” explores institutional segregation in employment, housing, education, and the importance of voting. Click here to download the slides from the presentation....
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Statesmanship in American History

July 17

Statesmanship in American History Dates: July 16–21, 2023 Location: James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton, NJ Participants: 8th–12th grade teachers Application Deadline: April 1, 2023 In partnership with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions Supported by the Jack Miller Center Statesmanship in American History will allow up to 20 8th–12th grade teachers to participate in a weeklong professional development event on-site at Princeton University. Statesmanship, or statecraft, is the pursuit of politics at the highest level,...
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Statesmanship in American History | Register for Live Lectures on Zoom

All K–12 teachers can register for free to attend via Zoom the scholar’s lectures at the Statesmanship in American History Seminar. You can find dates, times, and guest lecturers below. Dr. Allen C. Guelzo is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar and the Director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Dr. Guelzo is the author of Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President (1999), Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (2013), Robert E. Lee: A Life (2021). Each lecture will be broadcast...
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2023 Summer Professional Development

June 26

Six Great Ways to Learn with the Gilder Lehrman Institute This Summer Twenty-three programs | Online and In-Person | Topics across American history Online Teacher Seminars (Online) Twelve seminars available and you can sign up for as many as you like. Click here to learn more. Reserve your spot The George Washington University July 9–22 The Making of America K–8 teachers: explore American origins at this two-week NEH Summer Institute. Click here to learn more. Application Closed Gettysburg College July 16–19 The Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium Choose from seven exciting...
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Book Breaks

June 11

Every Sunday at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT) Upcoming Book Breaks June June 11, 2023 - Fierce and Fearless: Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress Fierce and Fearless is a biography of Patsy Takemoto Mink, the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. Serving from 1965 to 1977, and again from 1990 until her death in 2002, Mink advocated race, gender, and class equality and spearheaded legislation embracing antiwar politics and environmental protection. She was the foremost advocate for Title IX, which transformed girls’ and women’s...
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Gilder Lehrman Institute's Twelfth Annual Gala Honors Gates, Rockefeller, and Stapleton

The Gilder Lehrman Institute held its twelfth annual Gala on Tuesday, May 23, 2023 in New York City. The Gala honored Debbie and Craig Stapleton, Valerie Rockefeller, and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. History lovers including business and civic leaders, renowned scholars, theatrical stars and writers, and other Institute supporters joined with teachers, students, and Gilder Lehrman staff for a night of celebration. Student performers chosen from the Hamilton Education Program entertained guests, and Vanessa Sears, a surprise guest from the current Broadway revival of New York, New York...
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Five Courses Still Have Openings for the Gilder Lehrman Symposium

The Gilder Lehrman Institute is pleased to return to Gettysburg College for our second annual Teacher Symposium from July 16 to July 19. Two courses have closed to enrollment, but the following five courses still have some seats open: The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass led by David Blight (Yale University) Delve into the three major roles Frederick Douglass played in the nineteenth century—as activist, as artist, and as thinker—before, during, and after the Civil War. The Civil Rights Movement: Teaching beyond the Master Narrative with Charles McKinney (Rhodes College)...
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Deep Dives with Two Civil War Era Courses at the Teacher Symposium

With Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium courses like The American Civil War already filled, teachers looking for further enrichment in the Civil War are encouraged to go deeper into its causes and aftermath with two exciting courses taught by leading historians in the field. Defining Freedom: Challenges and Triumphs in the Age of Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction Led by Edna Greene Medford (Howard University) Focusing on the steps toward Reconstruction and its hopeful promise of a more equal future, Defining Freedom is a topical course for the present. The years between...
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2023-2024 Academic Year Internship Program

The Gilder Lehrman Institute is excited to launch the 2023–2024 Academic Year Internship Program! Students from all over the country will take part in a variety of engaging internships, gaining valuable experience in museum exhibition management, educational programming, and nonprofit operations. Interns will be paid $15 per hour. Start and end dates are flexible depending on the needs of the department and the intern. Each description indicates whether the internship is designed for high school students or college students (and beyond). Each description also specifies whether...
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History U | American Indian History: Recasting the Narrative

This course will introduce and explore the complexities of American Indian history, a field of study ignored for generations. Indigenous peoples have fundamentally shaped and defined the modern world. From the founding of the first European settlements in North America to continuing debates over the meanings of American democracy, Indian history remains integral to understanding US history and culture. Through a series of engaging lectures, students will be introduced to stories that elucidate the persecution and perseverance of American Indians. Some of the topics included in...
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History U

The Gilder Lehrman Institute’s History U offers free, self-paced courses in American history to high school students. These courses, led by the nation’s top historians, are drawn from our MA in American History program and allow you to study history at your own pace. Taking a History U course can enhance college applications, supplement classroom learning, and allow you to explore your own love of history. Each History U course includes Video lectures by a leading history professor Primary sources and in-depth readings Short quizzes to review your knowledge A certificate of...
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Open Positions at the Gilder Lehrman Institute

ADJUNCT ASSISTANT PROFESSOR The Organization The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI) is the nation’s leading American history organization dedicated to K–12 education. The Institute’s mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American history through educational programs and resources. Since its founding in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has created powerful and meaningful ways to teach and learn history. Focusing on primary sources, the Institute offers teacher seminars, online courses, exhibitions, digital materials, and print publications that...
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Traveling Exhibitions | Who Can Vote? A Brief History of Voting Rights in the US

> This exhibition examines voting rights with an emphasis on the role of the US Constitution and the interplay between the states and federal government in determining who is allowed to vote. Beginning with the founding era and going up to the election of 2000, this exhibition explores the complex history of the right to vote that forms the core of our nation’s democracy. Topics include voting as a constitutional right, women’s suffrage, Reconstruction and Jim Crow era voting rights, the Civil Rights Movement, and the enfranchisement of Indigenous peoples. LOGISTICAL...
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Meet All the Historians at the Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium

Now is the time to enroll in courses for the Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium, being held Sunday, July 16 through Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Take your pick of courses, but meet all the historians at Symposium events. Meet the 2023 Symposium Historians David W. Blight is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University and the director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. He is the preeminent expert on Frederick Douglass. His Pulitzer and Lincoln Prize–winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom...
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Book Breaks in June: Fierce Struggles for Freedom

Book Breaks is a weekly interview series with historians held every Sunday at 2 pm ET (11 am PT) on Zoom. The program and its archive are free for K–12 teachers and students in the Affiliate School Program, college students, and college faculty. Visit the Book Breaks page to learn more. The general public can purchase a one-year $25 subscription for full access to the program here. June 4: Alice L. Baumgartner, South to Freedom: Runaway Slaves to Mexico and the Road to the Civil War When preparing for escape, enslaved people started with a single decision: Should they run North...
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Commemorate Memorial Day with an American Veterans Exhibition

The Gilder Lehrman Institute is thrilled to announce the release of Their Full Measure, a digital exhibition created with the support of the National Cemetery Administration's Veterans Legacy Program. This exhibition examines the experiences of nineteen military service personnel in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and Iraq and Afghanistan. Stories told in this exhibition include Margaret Corbin, the first woman to earn a military pension James Reese Europe, a bandleader and lieutenant in the Harlem Hellfighters Perry Watkins, sergeant in...

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