The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to support and enhance participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. Public, parochial, and independent school teachers as well as National Park Service rangers are eligible. These week-long seminars, offered at colleges and universities nationwide and in the United Kingdom, provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.

Participants will have the opportunity to receive three hours of graduate credit in American history. They will also receive books, room and board, and a stipend to offset travel costs to the host institution.

Questions? E-mail seminars@gilderlehrman.org or call 646-366-9666.
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Early America (Beginnings to 1750) 

• Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

• at Johns Hopkins University
• Philip Morgan
• July 11-17, 2010
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• NEH Summer Institute for School Teachers: The Lost World of Early America,

  at Yale University
• John Demos
• July 18-31, 2010
• Separate Application Required
• Deadline: March 2, 2010
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• Middle Passages: A Shared History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade

• at Yale University
• Stephanie Smallwood
• James Walvin
• August 1-8, 2010
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Revolution and the New Nation 

• The International Impact of the Declaration of Independence

• at Monticello and the University of Virginia
• David Armitage
• June 27-July 2, 2010
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• The Era of George Washington

• at Brown University
• Gordon Wood
• July 11-17, 2010
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• Passages to Freedom: Abolition and the Underground Railroad

• at Yale University
• James O. Horton
• Lois E. Horton
• July 11-17, 2010
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• North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective

• at the University of Maryland
• Ira Berlin
• July 18-24, 2010
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• John and Abigail Adams

• at Amherst College
• Joseph Ellis
• July 25-31, 2010
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• From the Founding of a Nation to the Crisis of the Union

• at James Madison's Montpelier
• Carol Berkin
• Fritz Fischer
• August 1-7, 2010
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• George Washington and the American Revolution

• at George Washington's Mount Vernon
• Andrew Robertson
• June 27-July 3, 2010
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• The American Revolution

• at the University of California, Los Angeles
• Gary Nash
• July 11-17, 2010
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• The Age of Jefferson

• at Monticello and the University of Virginia
• Frank Cogliano
• Peter Onuf
• July 18-24, 2010
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• New Perspectives on American Wars, 1750-1865

• at Miami University of Ohio
• Fred Anderson
• Andrew Cayton
• July 18-24, 2010
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• Slavery in the Age of Revolutions

• at Columbia University
• Christopher L. Brown
• August 1-7, 2010
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Civil War and Reconstruction 

• The American Civil War: Origins and Consequences, Battlefields and Homefront

• at the University of Virginia
• Gary Gallagher
• June 27-July 3, 2010
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• Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship

• at Yale University
• Jonathan Holloway
• June 27-July 3, 2010
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• Abraham Lincoln and His World

• at Gettysburg College
• Allen Guelzo
• July 4-10, 2010
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• America's Moral Crisis: Politics and Culture in the 1850s

• at Columbia University
• Andrew Delbanco
• July 18-24, 2010
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• Reconstruction

• at Columbia University
• Eric Foner
• July 25-31, 2010
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• The South in American History

• at the University of Richmond
• Edward Ayers
• June 27-July 1, 2010
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• Remaking America: Nation and Citizen in the Civil War Era

• at the University of Pennsylvania
• Stephanie McCurry
• July 4-10, 2010
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• The Age of Lincoln

• at St. Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK
• Richard Carwardine
• July 11-17, 2010
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• Lincoln: Private Man, Public Leader

• at Gettysburg College
• Matthew Pinsker
• July 18-24, 2010
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• Summer Seminar for College Professors: Slave Narratives

• at Yale University
• David Blight
• June 13-16, 2010
• Separate Application Required
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The Emergence of Modern America 

• The Great Depression and World War II

• at Stanford University
• David Kennedy
• June 27-July 3, 2010
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• New York in the Gilded Age
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• at Columbia University
• Kenneth Jackson
• Karen Markoe
• July 11-17, 2010
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• Visions of the American Environment

• at the University of Colorado, Boulder
• Patricia Limerick
• July 18-24, 2010
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• Economic and Financial Crises in American History

• at New York University
• Richard Sylla
• August 1-7, 2010
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• The Progressive Era in Global Context

• at New York University
• Thomas Bender
• July 11-17, 2010
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• The Great Plains: America's Crossroads

• at the University of Colorado, Boulder
• Elliott West
• July 18-24, 2010
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• Women's Rights in the United States

• at Duke University
• Lisa Levenstein
• July 18-21, 2010
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• The Gilded Age: 1865-1896

• at Stanford University
• Richard White
• August 1-7, 2010
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America 1945 - Present 

• The Sixties in Historical Perspective

• at Georgetown University
• Michael Kazin
• Michael Flamm
• June 20-26, 2010
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• The Role of the Supreme Court in U.S. History

• at Stanford University
• Larry Kramer
• July 11-17, 2010
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• The Civil Rights Movement

• at Clare College, Cambridge University, UK
• Anthony Badger
• July 25-31, 2010
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• Teaching Digital History

• at Rice University
• Steven Mintz
• July 25-31, 2010
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• The Global Cold War

• at Clare College, Cambridge University, UK
• Odd Arne Westad
• July 4-10, 2010
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• Civil Rights in America

• at Hampden-Sydney College
• Clarence Taylor
• July 18-24, 2010
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• U.S.-China Relations

• in Washington, DC
• Warren I. Cohen
• July 25-31, 2010
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