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The Rivalry Between Napoleon and Britain’s Most Famous Admiral You’ve Never Heard of

Primary Sources: Meaning, Reliability & Where To Find Them

Primary Sources: Meaning, Reliability & Where To Find Them

Camille Pissarro and the Dreyfus Affair

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After the Revolutionary War, George Washington Believes His Work Is Done

June 30, 2026

Virtual Event: April 30th – Jewish Louisianians in the Civil War

April 14, 2026

Virtual Event: April 16 – Everyday Experiences of Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War | 250 Years of Jewish Life in America Series

April 12, 2026

Virtual Event: Discover Jewish Civil War Soldiers through the Shapell Roster and JewishGen

January 20, 2026

Allen C. Guelzo & Jonathan Sarna Discuss “Lincoln & The Jews” at The New York Historical

May 12, 2025

Hybrid Event, April 3, 6:30PM ET: Jonathan D. Sarna & Allen C. Guelzo at The New York Historical

March 30, 2025

Interview With Prof. Jonathan Sarna On Lincoln And The Jews – Podcast

February 20, 2025

Virtual Event, February 12, 2025: Lincoln And The Jews – With Jonathan Sarna & Laura Leibman

January 23, 2025

When Did The Jewish Vote Become A Strategic Asset In American Politics?

January 16, 2025

Academic Research & The Shapell Roster Of Jewish Soldiers In The American Civil War

November 25, 2024

Old City Of Jerusalem Tour – In Mark Twain’s Footsteps

March 28, 2024

Book Review: “Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War” by Adam Mendelson

November 28, 2023

LIVE EVENT: Oct 25 – JewishGen & The Shapell Roster

October 25, 2023

A Message From The Foundation – The Israel Hamas War, 2023

October 15, 2023

LIVE Event Nov. 9: Haberman Institute In-Person & Online – Jewish Civil War Soldiers

September 11, 2023

Ida Tarbell and Her Little-Known Yet Major Influence on Lincoln’s Legacy

September 06, 2023

Napoleon: The Original Fake News

May 31, 2023

US National Archives: Jewish Soldiers in the Civil War, The Union Army

May 30, 2023

National Archives Live Virtual Event, Thursday, May 18

May 08, 2023

Abraham Jonas, Close Jewish Friend of Abraham Lincoln to be Honored with Cemetery Marker

April 17, 2023

JTA News: Lincoln’s Jewish Soldiers Interview

February 20, 2023

February 12 On C-SPAN: Adam Mendelsohn On Jews That Enlisted In The Civil War

February 05, 2023

Live Broadcast Hosted By Jewish Heritage Center: Jewish Soldiers In The Civil War

January 19, 2023

72nd National Jewish Book Awards Finalists

January 19, 2023

The 75th Anniversary of the Partition of Palestine

November 29, 2022

“What I learned about antisemitism from a remarkable new archive about Jewish Civil War soldiers”

November 16, 2022

125 Years Since the First Zionist Congress

August 28, 2022

Upcoming, August 2022: Presentation at International Jewish Genealogical Conference

July 17, 2022

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Wyatt Earp & Josephine Marcus

March 15, 2022

Meet Vonnie Zullo, Professional Historical Document Researcher

March 10, 2022

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Albert Einstein

January 27, 2022

Podcast: IN Jewish History Explores Jewish Civil War History With SMF’s Roster Team

December 19, 2021

The Dude President: Chester Arthur, Civil Rights, and Civil Service Reform

December 15, 2021

Mark Twain, 1907. A.F. Bradley. Library of Congress.

Mark Twain’s Publishing Firm: Chapter 13

November 18, 2021

Dreyfus Affair Museum Opens in Paris

October 28, 2021

Max Nordau: A Man of Vision and Obscure Legacy

October 22, 2021

Chief Justice William Howard Taft: A Dream Deferred

August 30, 2021

Libbie Custer: Shaping a Legacy

August 09, 2021

The Most Athletic Presidents & The Olympics

July 25, 2021

Isaac Leeser’s Proto-Zionism

July 13, 2021

Paul Bunyan Day: The American West and Theodore Roosevelt

June 28, 2021

Sir Charles Warren: Jerusalem, Jack the Ripper, And the Boer War

June 24, 2021

Theodore Roosevelt Family Life

June 20, 2021

Director of Shapell Roster Joins JewishGen’s Advisory Board

May 31, 2021

Newly Digitized Kennedy Manuscript

May 30, 2021

Warder Cresson and the First Amendment

May 25, 2021

George Washington: Farming & Agriculture

May 13, 2021

Book Review: Lioness: Golda Meir and the Nation of Israel

May 03, 2021

President Jefferson and the First Vaccine

April 18, 2021

Image from Wikimedia Commons

National Library Week: Staff Reading Picks

April 08, 2021

Rags to Riches Presidents & The Poorest Presidents In US History

April 05, 2021

Harry S. Truman & Baseball: Presidential First Pitches

April 01, 2021

Ulysses Grant’s General Order No. 11 Historic Marker In Mississippi

March 31, 2021

A Year Less Traveled

March 25, 2021

Educating for American Democracy: A Partnership With The NEH & US Department Of Education

March 15, 2021

Albert Einstein the Activist

March 14, 2021

Edith Wilson, First Woman President?

March 09, 2021

It’s Not The First Time The White House Experienced A Quarantine

March 04, 2021

Review: Valley of Tears

February 25, 2021

Presidential Brothers in Arms: Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley

February 16, 2021

Webinar: Researching Hebrew Union Veterans Association (HUVA) Members, Part II

February 14, 2021

President Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan Dancing at an Inaugural Ball at the DC Armory in Washington, DC, National Archives

Love in the White House

February 07, 2021

Harry and Bess Truman

February 02, 2021

Gabby Giffords Draws Upon Inspirational Words Of Abraham Lincoln

January 18, 2021

Clarel Disinterred

December 30, 2020

Join Us On January 12th: Original Manuscripts in the Contemporary Classroom

December 17, 2020

Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, and the East Africa Scheme

December 14, 2020

Napoleon in the Holy Land

December 02, 2020

David Rice Atchison – (Not) President for a Day

November 22, 2020

Ben-Gurion the Archivist

November 18, 2020

NEW: Teacher Resources Curricula Now Available at Shapell

November 07, 2020

Researchers share stories of Ohio Jewish Civil War soldiers

October 20, 2020

Leopold Rothschild

September 11, 2020

Harry Truman Post Presidency: Presidential Recollections

August 27, 2020

Archaic German Manuscripts, Jewish Civil War Soldiers, and a Professor of English in North Dakota

August 13, 2020

Little Phil: The Heroism and Hard Luck of a Civil War Soldier

August 13, 2020

Watch: The Hebrew Union Veterans Association & Shapell Roster Webinar

July 26, 2020

Webinar: Discover Hebrew Union Veterans Association & Shapell Roster

June 03, 2020

US Cabinet Secretary George Cortelyou

George Cortelyou

May 10, 2020

Watch: Jewish Confederate Soldiers – Georgia

April 23, 2020

“Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.”

April 17, 2020

Titanic Victims - Archibald Willingham - Aka Archie Butt

Archibald Willingham Butt: Presidential Aide And Friend, Lost On The Titanic

April 12, 2020

A Reading by Chief Curator Sara Willen: Abraham Lincoln’s Condolence Letter

March 29, 2020

Covid-19 reading. Mark Twain reading and lounging, circa 1905.

Historical Reads for Self-Isolation | COVID-19

March 23, 2020

Ralph Waldo Emerson

National Grammar Day: Mark Twain on Ralph Waldo Emerson: His Grammar is Like Gravel in Bread

March 01, 2020

Tragedy in the White House: U.S. Presidents Who Lost Children

February 24, 2020

“Not So Innocent Abroad” – Jewish Review of Books

January 16, 2020

“The Twain Shall Meet” – The New York Jewish Week

December 25, 2019

SMF Mourns the Passing of John Sellers and Joe Rubinfine

December 11, 2019

The Author of Ben-Hur, the Book that Healed a Nation

December 05, 2019

Mark Twain and the Adams Colony

November 12, 2019

Exhibition Opening: “Mark Twain and the Holy”

October 25, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Days 13,14,15; September 29th-October 1

September 29, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 12, September 28th

September 28, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 11, September 27th

September 27, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 10, September 26th

September 26, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 9, September 25th

September 25, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 8, September 24th

September 24, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 7, September 23th

September 23, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 6, September 22th

September 22, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 5, September 21th

September 21, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 4, September 20th

September 20, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 3, September 19th

September 19, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in the Holy Land – Day 2, September 18th

September 18, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in Palestine – Day 1, September 17th

September 17, 2019

Mark Twain’s Journeys in Palestine – September 16th

September 16, 2019

Forbes: Mark Twain’s ‘The Innocents Abroad’ Celebrated In New York

September 15, 2019

Director of Roster Research, Adrienne Usher, Presents: Mining Civil War Pension Records for Jewish Soldiers

September 15, 2019

A Presidential Response to the 1929 Hebron Massacres

August 29, 2019

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Netanyahu: The Longest-Serving Israeli Prime Minister

July 15, 2019

The Word ‘Deadline’ has a Horrible Origin in Civil War Prisons. Via: We Are The Mighty

July 08, 2019

Treaty of Versailles Centennial: June 28, 2019

June 28, 2019

1865-1956: The Emotional Aftermath on Witnesses of Lincoln’s Assassination

April 18, 2019

Historic Week for Space Exploration

April 11, 2019

National Library of Israel Features Theodor Herzl Postcards

April 08, 2019

The New York Times: Why You Should Dig Up Your Family’s History – and How to Do It

February 05, 2019

Historians Explain Why We Collect Manuscripts

January 31, 2019

25 Years Since the Northridge, California, Earthquake

January 17, 2019

Image: Alfred Dreyfus, circa 1894. Aaron Gerschel, Wikimedia Commons.

Inspirational Letter from the Wrongly Imprisoned Alfred Dreyfus

January 14, 2019

The President’s Bodyguard: Mick McElkenny

December 31, 2018

Welcome to the New Home of the Shapell Manuscript Foundation

December 09, 2018

The 2018 Mid-Term Elections: Where the Debates all Started

September 02, 2018

Jerry Parr: The Secret Service, Ronald Reagan, & More

August 22, 2018

The 150th Anniversary of Ulysses Grant’s 1868 Election Year

August 14, 2018

Mourning Jewelry: Abraham Lincoln at Theodore Roosevelt’s Inauguration

July 23, 2018

When Did The US First Get Involved In The Middle East

August 21, 2017

Mary Benjamin – Famous Autograph Authority

April 30, 2017

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New Exhibition “High Hopes: The Journey of John F. Kennedy”

March 25, 2017

Lincoln and the Jews – Book and Exhibition Reviews

January 16, 2017

Honest Abe and the Children of Abraham

March 26, 2015

“Lincoln and the Jews: a History”

March 17, 2015

Private David Ben-Gurion, Volunteer in the Jewish Legion, 1918

August 04, 2014

Theodore Roosevelt and Grandson Kermit. Source: Library of Congress.

Theodore Roosevelt and Grandsons

July 28, 2014

Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus (center) pose with the fifty Austrian Jewish children they brought to the United States (cropped) - US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Liz Perle.

50 Children

July 17, 2014

Sisters Anne and Margot Frank. Courtesy of Anne Frank Fonds, Basel, Switzerland.

Anne Frank Family Photos at the Anne Frank Fonds

March 26, 2014

Beautiful Historic Photographs from 1862-1924

February 25, 2014

Lincoln’s Eloquence

November 19, 2013

An Assassin Prepares

September 17, 2013

JFK’s 1944 Flight Logbook

May 29, 2013

Jewish Participation in the American Civil War

July 10, 2012

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