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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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Book Breaks VIEW LIST (108 BOOKS)
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
The Essential West: Collected Essays
A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
The Evil Necessity: British Naval Impressment in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Liberia & the Quest for Freedom
Feeding Washington's Army: Surviving the Valley Forge Winter of 1778
Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America
The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America
The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
An African American and Latinx History of the United States
A Sin by Any Other Name: Reckoning with Racism and the Heritage of the South
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution

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George Washington Prize Winners VIEW LIST (17 BOOKS)
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

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Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College: titles by presenting historians VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)
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 Declaration at 250 VIEW LIST (13 BOOKS)
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution
The American Revolution Reader
The Radicalism of the American Revolution
Liberty's Daughters
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
Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Winners VIEW LIST (39 BOOKS)
Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox
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
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Writing the Gettysburg Address
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
Lincoln and the Border States: Preserving the Union
Lincoln's Forgotten Ally: Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt of Kentucky
The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

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Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winners VIEW LIST (27 BOOKS)
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
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
Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South
In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World

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Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History Winners VIEW LIST (8 BOOKS)
The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History
Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941-1943
Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
The Earth Is Weeping: The Epic Story of the Indian Wars for the American West
Braddock's Defeat: The Battle of the Monongahela and the Road to Revolution
Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I
Gettysburg: The Last Invasion
Black Lives in the Founding Era VIEW LIST (36 BOOKS)
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America
Voices of the Enslaved: Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism
The First Reconstruction: Black Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War
The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song
On Juneteenth
At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C.
City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856
Black Loyalists: Southern Settlers of Nova Scotia's First Free Black Communities
Standing in Their Own Light, Volume 59: African American Patriots in the American Revolution
Negro in the American Revolution
Epic Journeys of Freedom: Runaway Slaves of the American Revolution and Their Global Quest for Liberty
The Forgotten Fifth: African Americans in the Age of Revolution
Black Americans in the Revolutionary Era: A Brief History with Documents

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Hamilton Cast Read Along VIEW LIST (34 BOOKS)
Brick by Brick
Eliza: The Story of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton: With an Afterword by Phillipa Soo, the Original Eliza from Hamilton: An American
Martin & Anne: The Kindred Spirits of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Anne Frank
The Voice That Won the Vote: How One Woman's Words Made History
Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
A Ride to Remember: A Civil Rights Story
Bread for Words: A Frederick Douglass Story
Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre
Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball
A Spy Called James: The True Story of James Lafayette, Revolutionary War Double Agent
Mumbet's Declaration of Independence
A Fist for Joe Louis and Me
Paper Son: The Inspiring Story of Tyrus Wong, Immigrant and Artist
Barbed Wire Baseball: How One Man Brought Hope to the Japanese Internment Camps of WWII
Soldier for Equality: José de la Luz Sáenz and the Great War

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Inside the Vault VIEW LIST (151 BOOKS)
What Was D-Day?
Longest Day: The Classic Epic of D Day
Soldier, Sailor, Frogman, Spy: How the Allies Won on D-Day
The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944-1945
Who Was Theodore Roosevelt?
The Crowded Hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the Dawn of the American Century
The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Who Was Thomas Jefferson?
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Occupied America: British Military Rule and the Experience of Revolution
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America
Her Name Was Mary Katharine: The Only Woman Whose Name Is on the Declaration of Independence
A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's Independence

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