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Originally broadcast on September 17, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection celebrated Constitution Day with rare materials from the Gilder Lehrman Collection: The US Constitution!...
Inside the Vault: The Emancipation Proclamation & FDR’s Advice to Students
The Gilder Lehrman curators were joined by Hamilton ’s Tyler Belo on September 3, 2020, in this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection where they celebrated the start of the school year with three...
Inside The Vault: Eleanor Roosevelt, “Four Basic Rights,” and Desegregation
Originally broadcast on August 21, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores a 1944 letter by Eleanor Roosevelt defending the four basic rights of all Americans and desegregation...
Inside the Vault: George Washington and Slavery
For the August 7, 2020, session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection , the Gilder Lehrman curators were joined by Darnell Abraham from Hamilton , Jeanette Providence, an educator at Grant Union High...
Inside the Vault: The Election of 1800
Originally broadcast on July 10, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores Alexander Hamilton’s letter to Representative Harrison Otis voicing his support for Thomas Jefferson over...
Inside the Vault: July Anniversaries
The June 26, 2020 edition of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores a rare South Carolina printing of the Declaration of Independence and a soldier’s experience at the Battle of Gettysburg. The...
Inside the Vault: The Schuyler Sisters
Originally broadcast on June 12, 2020, in this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection curators discussed documents relating to history’s favorite sisters: Angelica, Eliza, and Peggy. Paige...
Inside the Vault: Jackie Robinson
Originally broadcast on May 29, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores a comic book about Jackie Robinson’s rookie year and letters written by Richard Nixon and Robert Kennedy...
Inside the Vault: Ulysses S. Grant
Originally broadcast on May 15, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores the earliest known letter by Ulysses S. Grant, written when he was a 17-year-old cadet at West Point, and...
Inside the Vault: Two Generals: George Washington and Robert E. Lee
Originally broadcast on April 17, 2020, this session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection explores a letter from George Washington about becoming the first President of the United States in 1789 and...
Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Collection
In the first session of Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on April 3, 2020, Collection Director Sandy Trenholm, Assistant Curator Allison Kraft, Curatorial Assistant Laura Hapke, and Hamilton Education...
Roger Lowenstein - "Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War"
Roger Lowenstein is a financial reporter who has written for the Wall Street Journal and other publications. Order Ways and Means at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link...
Eric Foner, Kathleen DuVal, and Lisa McGirr - "Give Me Liberty! An American History"
Eric Foner is DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History at Columbia University. Kathleen DuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Lisa McGirr is a Charles Warren Professor of American...
Jeff Nussbaum - "Undelivered: The Never-Heard Speeches That Would Have Rewritten History"
Jeff Nussbaum is a speechwriter and adjunct professor of public communications at American University. Order Undelivered at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided...
Keith Pluymers - "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic"
Keith Pluymers is an environmental historian and assistant professor of history at Illinois State University. Order No Wood, No Kingdom at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through...
Ira Hayes: An Archetype of 20th-Century American Indian Veterans
Tom Holm (Creek/Cherokee) is a professor in the American Indian Studies Program, which he helped found, at the University of Arizona. This video was filmed as part of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s partnership with the Veterans...
Justin Gage - "We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost Dance"
Justin Gage is an assistant professor of history at the University of Florida. Order We Do Not Want the Gates Closed between Us at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link...
Gary Gallagher - "The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis"
Gary Gallagher is the John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Order The Enduring Civil War at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from...
Eric Rauchway - "Why the New Deal Matters"
Eric Rauchway is a professor of history at the University of California, Davis. Order Why the New Deal Matters at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank...
Peter Cozzens - "Tecumseh and the Prophet: The Shawnee Brothers Who Defied a Nation"
Peter Cozzens is a retired US foreign service officer and winner of the 2017 Gilder Lehrman Prize in Military History. Order Tecumseh and the Prophet at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every...
Susan Nagel - "Patriotism and Profit: Washington, Hamilton, Schuyler & the Rivalry for America's Capital City"
Susan Nagel is the author of Marie-Thérèse, Child of Terror and Mistress of the Elgin Marbles as well as a critically acclaimed book on the novels of Jean Giraudoux. She has written for the stage and screen as well as the New York...
Akhil Reed Amar - "The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation: 1760-1840"
Akhil Reed Amar is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. Order The Words That Made Us at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided....
Jonathan W. White - "A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House"
Jonathan W. White is professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University. Order A House Built By Slaves at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided....
Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross - "A Black Women's History of the United States"
Daina Ramey Berry is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Kali Nicole Gross is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of African American Studies at Emory...
Woody Holton - "Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution"
Woody Holton is the McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. Order Liberty Is Sweet at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank...
Jeanne Theoharis - "The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks"
Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Order The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the...
Garrett M. Graff - "Watergate: A New History"
Garrett M. Graff is a journalist and historian who has spent more than a dozen years covering politics, technology, and national security. He serves as the director of cyber initiatives for The Aspen Institute and is a contributor to...
Keisha N. Blain - "Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America"
Keisha N. Blain is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, Class of 2022 Carnegie Fellow, Full Professor Africana Studies and History at Brown University, and columnist for MSNBC. Order Until I Am Free at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an...
Mary Sarah Bilder - "Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution"
Mary Sarah Bilder is Founders Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. Order Female Genius at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...
John Avlon - "Lincoln and the Fight for Peace"
John Avlon is a senior political analyst and anchor at CNN. Order Lincoln and the Fight for Peace at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...
David Eltis - "Atlas of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade"
David Eltis is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of History at Emory University. Order Atlas of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the...
Robert W. Lee - "A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South"
Robert W. Lee is an author, activist, commentator, and clergyman. Order A Sin by Any Other Name at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for...
Noah Feldman - "The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America"
Noah Feldman is Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Chairman of the Society of Fellows, and founding director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law at Harvard University. Order The Broken Constitution at the...
Linda Colley - "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen"
Linda Colley is the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University. Order The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link...
Fay Yarbrough - "Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country"
Fay Yarbrough is a professor of history at Rice University. Order Choctaw Confederates at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our...
Marcia Chatelain - "Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America"
Marcia Chatelain is a Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. Order Franchise at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every...
Megan Kate Nelson - "Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America"
Megan Kate Nelson is a writer and historian who has written about the Civil War, US western history, and American culture for the New York Times , the Washington Post , The Atlantic , Time , and Smithsonian Magazine . Order Saving...
Ricardo A. Herrera - "Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778"
Ricardo A. Herrera is a professor of military history in the School of Advanced Military Studies at the US Army Command and General Staff College. Order Feeding Washington’s Army at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an...
C. Patrick Burrowes - "Liberia & the Quest for Freedom"
Carl Patrick Burrows is a leading Liberian historian. He has served as vice president for academic affairs at Cuttington University and the Carter G. Woodson Distinguished Professor at Marshall University. Order Liberia & the...
Denver Brunsman - "The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"
Denver Brunsman is an associate professor of history at The George Washington University. Order The Evil Necessity at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided....
David Hackett Fischer - "African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals"
David Hackett Fischer is University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History, Emeritus at Brandeis University. Order African Founders at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase...
Dorothy Wickenden - "The Agitators: Three Friends Who Fought for Abolition and Women's Rights"
Dorothy Wickenden is the executive editor of The New Yorker . Order The Agitators at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs...
Susan Schulten - "A History of America in 100 Maps"
Susan Schulten is a professor of history at the University of Denver. Order A History of America in 100 Maps at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you...
Jeanne Theoharis - "A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History"
Jeanne Theoharis is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College. Order A More Beautiful and Terrible History at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the...
Brenda Stevenson - "What Is Slavery?"
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David Blight - "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom"
Order Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop We receive an affiliate commission from every purchase through the link provided. Thank you for supporting our programs! Classroom-Ready Resources Video...
Jim Downs - "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine"
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