The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers an introduction to the people, documents, and events that have shaped our country's history. Our online history textbook, our collection of annotated documents, our multimedia exhibitions, and other materials span the entire period from the European discovery of the New World to the present. Balancing breadth with depth, these resources provide comprehensive coverage of all the issues that teachers and professors address in survey U.S. history classes.

		Hypertext History		Our comprehensive, searchable online U.S. history textbook.
		Annotated Documents		Letters, diaries, trial transcripts, newspaper articles, and other original sources that bring the past to life. Documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection Documents in the History of Slavery Documents on Mexican American History Documents in Native American History Links to Landmark Documents in American History
		Multimedia Exhibitions		Online exhibits that illustrate major topics in American history, drawn upon the rich resources of the Gilder Lehrman Collection and are used through the courtesy of The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
		Supreme Court Decisions		Access to the leading Supreme Court decisions on race, slavery, anti-trust, rights of criminal defendants, civil liberties, women's rights, and other essential topics.
		Great Debates		Up-to-date status reports on the major controversies that divide American historians, these concise essays show that American history remains a lively and exciting field for contention and debate.
		History of Private Life		Traditionally, history was the story of public life, of diplomacy, economic, politics, and war. These essays shift the focus to life's private side: from family life, gender roles, and sexuality to manners, leisure activities, diet, and death.
		History Through the Headlines		Concise essays that place contemporary controversies in historical perspective.
		Hollywood's America		Essays that examine the evolution of the first, most popular, and most influential instrument of mass culture: the movies.
		The Making of Ethnic America		Succinct essays, photo albums, and chronologies that offer fresh insights into immigration and the history of the nation's ethnic and religious communities and their interaction over a period of four centuries.
		Engines of Our Ingenuity		The machines that make our civilization run and the people whose ingenuity created them by Dr. John Lienhard, M.D. Anderson Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
		History Reference Resources		Chronologies Interactive Timeline (coming soon) Historical Glossaries Classroom Handouts Maps Historical Images Speeches
		Quizzes		Test your historical knowledge.
		Ask the HyperHistorian		Direct your questions to professional historians.

This site was updated on 12-Feb-12.