Alexander Hamilton to Henry Knox, June of 1782 (GLC2437.01442).

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GERALD R. FORD

With the passing of Gerald Ford in December, we thought our readers might be interested in viewing the documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection that relate to his life. The 38th President of the United States, Ford served between 1974 and 1977 and was the only person to hold that office without being elected as President or Vice President. Before becoming Vice President, Ford served as a Congressman and Minority Leader from Michigan. Click below:
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FEATURED DOCUMENT

The Gilder Lehrman Institute regularly features documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. In the spotlight this week is a letter written by Alexander Hamilton in 1782 defending the life of an innocent British soldier who was facing execution. See the document and read the transcript here:
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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY

Next Monday, January 15th, would have been Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 78th birthday. We recently asked Anthony Badger, Paul Mellon Professor of American History at Cambridge University and Master of Clare College, to create a suggested reading list about the Civil Rights Movement. Badger teaches the Institute's weeklong seminar on the Civil Rights Movement at Cambridge each summer.

Whether you are a student, teacher, scholar, or just a history fan, we hope you find this list useful.

Sally Belfrage, Freedom Summer. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.

Taylor Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006.

Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.

William H. Chafe, Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.

David L. Chappell, A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

Glenn T. Eskew, But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.

Adam Fairclough, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000. New York: Viking, 2001.

Adam Fairclough, Race & Democracy: The Civil Rights Struggle in Louisiana, 1915-1972. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.

Adam Fairclough, Martin Luther King, Jr.. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995.

Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America: the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr.. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

David Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: Vintage Books, 1986.

Greta de Jong, A Different Day: African American Struggles for Justice in Rural Louisiana, 1900-1970. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

Mary King, Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. New York: William Morrow, 1988.

John Kirk, Martin Luther King Jr.. London: Longman, 2004.

John Kirk, Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.

Steven Lawson and Charles M. Payne, Debating the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1968. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

John Lewis with Michael D'Orso, Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Ft. Washington: Harvest Books, 1999.

Peter J. Ling, Martin Luther King, Jr.. London: Routledge, 2002.

Charles Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995.

Cleveland Sellers, The River of No Return: The Autobiography of a Black Militant and the Life and Death of SNCC. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1990.

Stephen G. N. Tuck, Beyond Atlanta: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Georgia, 1940-1980. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Timothy B. Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Clive Webb ed., Massive Resistance: Southern Opposition to the Second Reconstruction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.


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