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Philadelphia, PA, April 14, 2008: The Pennsylvania
Abolition Society has pledged $2000 to support four
students from the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Constitution
High School as they attend Pennsylvania’s National
History Day statewide competition. The PAS, the first
abolition society in the world, has supported initiatives
enabling the education of African Americans since 1775
(for a copy of the PAS constitution on the Gilder Lehrman
Institute website, click here).
Students from Constitution High School conducted project
research in the PAS archives and will represent the
city of Philadelphia at the competition finals. The
balance of the PAS gift will support other students'
participation at National History Day.
Constitution High School is a magnet school created
in partnership with the National Constitution Center
and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
The school is the Institute’s first history school
in Pennsylvania and features a curriculum grounded in
American history, law, and government.
National History Day is a nationwide educational initiative
that allows students to choose historical topics related
to a theme and conduct extensive primary and secondary
research through libraries, archives, museums, oral
history interviews and historic sites. Students present
their work in original papers, exhibits, performances
and documentaries, which are then entered into competitions
at local, state and national levels where they are evaluated
by professional historians and educators. The program
culminates in a national competition each June held
at the University of Maryland at College Park.
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History promotes the study and love of American history.
The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and
the general public. It helps create history-centered
schools, organizes seminars and programs for educators,
produces print and electronic publications and traveling
exhibitions, sponsors lectures by eminent historians,
and administers a History Teacher of the Year Award
in every state through its partnership with Preserve
America. The Institute also conducts awards including
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 websites, www.gilderlehrman.org
and the quarterly online journal www.historynow.org.
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