The Gilder Lehrman Institute

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History was founded in 1994 by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman, visionaries and lifelong supporters of American history education. The Institute is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to K–12 history education while also serving the general public. Its mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American history through educational programs and resources. 

 

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Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution
His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams
First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
A House Built by Slaves: African American Visitors to the Lincoln White House
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox
Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times
Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
Lincoln's White House: The People's House in Wartime
Thunder at the Gates: The Black Civil War Regiments That Redeemed America
Herndon on Lincoln: Letters
Mourning Lincoln
Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Writing the Gettysburg Address
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle
Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming
Americans and the Holocaust: A Reader
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
What Sorrows Labour in My Parent's Breast?: A History of the Enslaved Black Family
The Great New York Fire of 1776: A Lost Story of the American Revolution
California, a Slave State
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America
Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism
President Garfield: From Radical to Unifier
King: A Life
A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
America's Philosopher: John Locke in American Intellectual Life
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West
American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights
The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Revised)
Madison's Hand: Revising the Constitutional Convention
The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights ACT: Volume 2
The Woman's Hour (Adapted for Young Readers): Our Fight for the Right to Vote
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement
The Dream Is Lost: Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia
Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Mississippi Zion: The Struggle for Liberation in Attala County, 1865-1915
The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South
Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
The Thin Light of Freedom: The Civil War and Emancipation in the Heart of America
The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics
The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabamaas Black Belt
Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New Frontier
Reckless: Henry Kissinger and the Tragedy of Vietnam
The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
The Enduring Civil War: Reflections on the Great American Crisis
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution
The American Revolution Reader
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800 (Revised)
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
The Declaration of Independence: A Global History
1776
The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America
Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery
1774: The Long Year of Revolution
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
George Washington: A Life in Books
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
The Washingtons: George and Martha: Partners in Friendship and Love
An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America
The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire
Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
The Slave Ship: A Human History
Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic
Tacky's Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps
The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits
Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge: George and Martha Washington's Courageous Slave Who Dared to Run Away; Young Readers Edition
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
Slave Against Slave: Plantation Violence in the Old South
Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing
To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker
Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World
The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama - Third Edition
The Presidency: Facing Constitutional Crossroads
Typhoid Mary: Captive to the Public's Health
To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against Hiv/AIDS
The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866
Bodies in Doubt: An American History of Intersex
Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition
Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction
Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine