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Gilder Lehrman Announces 2010 Summer Seminars for Teachers
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Applications Now Open for K-12 Educators
New York, NY (November 18, 2009)—The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has released the list of its thirty-nine history seminars for K-12 history, social studies, and English teachers during the summer of 2010.
Taught by the nation’s most renowned history professors on college campuses nationwide and in the U.K., new one-week seminars for 2010 include The Gilded Age: 1865-1896 with Richard White at Stanford University, John and Abigail Adams with Joseph Ellis at Amherst College, Economic and Financial Crises in American History with Richard Sylla at New York University, New Perspectives on American Wars, 1750-1865 with Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton at Miami University of Ohio, Civil Rights in America with Clarence Taylor at Hampden-Sydney College, and Women's Rights in the U.S. with Lisa Levenstein at Duke University.
In addition, Gilder Lehrman will host a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute for School Teachers, The Lost World of Early America, led by John Demos at Yale University. This seminar will travel back to the era prior to the War of Independence and the Industrial Revolution in order to explore and connect with the changes that resulted from both in the American experience.
Designed to deepen teachers’ knowledge of topics in American history, Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars empower teachers by bringing them into contact with top scholars and providing resources and strategies to take back to their classrooms.
For the complete list of all thirty-nine seminars, visit: www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_course_offerings.php
Each year, more than 1,000 educators attend Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars and return home with new knowledge and a renewed passion for teaching American history. Stacy Calhoun, an eighth grade U.S. history teacher at North Laurel Middle School in Kentucky, recently shared with the Sentinel-Echo her experience in Philip Morgan’s seminar Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic World at Johns Hopkins University: “It was amazing. We studied with some of the best professors in the history field…I think there were 25 selected out of 300 applicants.” She added, “We often just hear of slavery in terms of numbers. We never get to learn about their journey…It gives you a whole new perspective.”
Educators K-12 and National Park Service interpreters are eligible. Seminars are limited to thirty participants by competitive application. Public school teachers are awarded a full fellowship, which includes room and board, books, and a stipend to offset travel costs. Independent school teachers are eligible for fellowships covering up to 50% of the total fees. Graduate credit is available. For information and to apply online, visit: www.gilderlehrman.org/education/seminar_overview.php
Applications must be submitted by February 15, 2010.
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History actively promotes the study and love of American history. The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general public in creating history-centered schools, organizing seminars and programs for educators, producing print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, sponsoring lectures by eminent historians, and administering a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state. The Institute awards the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and George Washington Book Prizes, and offers fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The Institute maintains two award-winning websites, www.gilderlehrman.org and the quarterly online journal www.historynow.org.
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