Amelia Earhart to her former flight instructor, Neta Snook.
New content is added regularly to the website, including online exhibitions, videos, lesson plans, and issues of the online journal History Now, which features essays by leading scholars on major topics in American history.The Gilder Lehrman Institute received generous press attention during the last month of 2019. Here are some highlights: The Wall Street Journal offered a wide-ranging profile of Gilder Lehrman Institute National History Teacher of the Year Alysha Butler on December 27, 2019.At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. More than 70,000 items cover five hundred years of American history, from Columbus’s 1493 letter describing the New World to soldiers’ letters from World War II and Vietnam.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Advanced Placement United States History Study Guide The AP US History exam is coming up on Friday, May 15, 2020 (make-up exam on Wednesday, June 3, 2020)!Professor Kathleen Dalton brings the focus to Roosevelt himself in her essay, Theodore Roosevelt: The Making of a Progressive Reformer. Dalton reminds us that Roosevelt’s personality, controversial and fascinating as it remains, should not overshadow the factors that lifted him into power or the issues to which he applied his talents.
As of June, 2004, he is Director, succeeding David Brion Davis, of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale. In 2010-11, Blight was the Rogers Distinguished Fellow in 19th century American History at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
