The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

The American West offers a survey of a region shaped by geography and history from 1802 through WWII. It covers topics currently taught, highlighting the central role of the federal government in shaping the West, and the place of the mythology of the West in popular culture. This box includes a resource book and accompanying CD-ROM with annotated primary sources, artwork, maps, discussion questions, and a list of additional resources; posters of documents and illustrations; portrait placards of key individuals; a poster-sized timeline; a DVD of five lectures by eminent scholars; and Voices of the West, a CD-ROM featuring songs, excerpts gold rush letters and a memoir of homesteader on the North Plains. It also includes a booklet, Views of the West, with photographs by Andrew Russell and William Henry Jackson.

The materials in this box offer a selective account of slavery and abolition in the United States and place the slave trade and the campaign to end slavery within an international context. Slavery and Abolition includes a resource book and CD containing primary source documents, artwork, study questions, and a list of additional resources; posters of documents and illustrations; portrait placards of key individuals; a poster-sized timeline; a DVD of eight lectures by leading scholars; and Songs of Slavery and Freedom, a CD of spirituals, work songs, and songs of freedom.

The Founding Era is a multimedia resource kit that includes: a notebook and CD containing primary source documents, artwork, maps, and study questions; posters of documents and images; two interactive CD-ROMs based on exhibitions (George Washington and Alexander Hamilton); portrait cards of key figures from the Founding Era; two comparative timelines; and Historians on the Record: The Founding Era, a DVD of thirteen lectures by leading scholars.

This box includes a resource book and CD containing primary source documents, artwork, maps, study questions, and a list of additional resources; posters of documents and illustrations; an interactive CD-ROM containing letters, photographs, and songs from the Civil War; portrait cards of key figures from the era; a timeline of Lincoln’s life; and Historians on the Record: Abraham Lincoln, a DVD of eight lectures by leading scholars.

Alexander Hamilton and the Creation of the United States provides multiple points of entry to an investigation of the life and accomplishments Alexander Hamilton as soldier, economist, politician, and visionary. The box includes primary sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, programmatic materials developed by the Institute, and documents from other repositories. It also includes posters, placards, a timeline, an educator's guide, and a DVD of Alexander Hamilton in Worlds Unknown, an original short play by Don Winslow dramatizing critical moments in Hamilton's life.