Saturday Academies provide free elective courses for high school and middle school students on Saturday mornings. For more information, contact Anthony Napoli at the Gilder Lehrman Institute at napoli@gilderlehrman.org.


Abraham Lincoln High School Saturday Academy
(Brooklyn, New York)
Selena Yuen, Director. Founded, 2005. Enrollment: 84 students.
Courses Offered: AP American History: Content Writing; SAT Comprehension and Writing Preparation; SAT Math preparation; History of Brooklyn: A Walking Tour; Night At The Museum: Come Live the Movie.
Contact Number: 718-372-5474

Academy of American Studies Saturday Academy
(Queens, New York)
Nina Cohen & Mark Solkoff, Co-Directors. Founded, 2004. Enrollment: 99 students.
Courses Offered: A Taste of New York; Historical Documentaries; Discussing the Levees: Building a Democratic Dialogue and Encouraging Civic Engagement; Youth of America; How Does War Impact the Development of Individuals and Society & How Does the Human Spirit Prevail?; Introduction to Law and Criminology; The Gilder Lehrman Research Center; PSAT/SAT Prep 9 -12 (double period)
Contact Number: 718-361-8786

Alexander Hamilton High School Saturday Academy
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
Christopher MacCallum, Coordinator. Founded, 2006. Enrollment: 100 students.
Courses Offered: AP US History; AP American Art; AP English; Civil War Essay; AP European History.

Algiers Charter Schools Association (New Orleans, LA)
Kevin Guitterrez, Coordinator. Founded 2007.
Courses Offered: American History Seen Through Film; The 1960s: Decade of Movements; A New Orleans Journey; The People's Court: Great Cases in American Law; American Culinary Arts and Sports Culture.

All Hallows Saturday Academy (Bronx, New York)
John Burke, Director. Founded 2002. Enrollment: 198 students.
Courses Offered: The Space Race (NASA); The Holocaust; The American Revolution; The Civil Rights Movement; Great American Orators; The Symbols of America; Revolutionary Movements.
Contact Number: 718-293-4545

Arcata High School Saturday Academy (Arcata, California)
Jennifer Rosebrook, Director. Founded 2006. Enrollment: 100 students.
Courses Offered: AP United States History; SAT Preparation; Stitchery and the Role of Women in History; The Civil Tights Movement: History of Child Labor.
Contact Number: 707-825-2400

Brooklyn Historical Society (Brooklyn, New York)
Kate Fermoile, Coordinator. Founded 2007.
Courses Offered: Brooklyn History through the Arts; SAT Prep; AP US History Review.

Forest Hills High School Saturday Academy (Queens, New York)
Saul Gootnick, Director. Founded 2006. Enrollment: 276 students.
Courses Offered: Problems in American Democracy; The American Presidency; Controversial Issues in American History; American Sports History; New York City as a Living Museum; Biography and Autobiography in American Literature; Mock Trial.
Contact Number: 718-268-3137

Frank Baxter Educational Complex Charter School
(Los Angeles, California)
Nancy Weems, Coordinator. Founded 2006.
Courses Offered: Unbreaking Bones- Medical Advances in Military Conflicts; What is a Chicano?; The Truth Project- Shaping our Eclectic Culture; Fossil Fuels and the US Economy; Women in US History through Photography; Infamous and Controversial US Elections; The Cold War; AP US History Review; The Seventies; Getting Ready for the SAT II – US History.

Frederick Douglass Saturday Academy (Manhattan, New York)
Dr. Gregory M. Hodge, Director. Founded 2002. Enrollment: 112 students.
Courses Offered: Great Topics in American History; The Immigrant Experience in New York; Writings of DuBois; African American Experience in the Media (1945-present); Voices of Harlem & Renaissance Writers.
Contact Number: 212-491-4107

Glen Este High School Saturday Academy (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Kenneth Dicks, Coorinator. Founded, 2006. Enrollment: 100 students.
Courses Offered: A Choice of Schools – College preparedness; Reviewing for the AP U.S. History Exam; Getting Ready for the ACT; Hispanic Cultures in the Unbited States; Theodore Roosevelt: An American Icon; Economics: Then and Now.
Contact Number: 513-947-7647

Heights High School (Wichita, Kansas)
Christopher Kemp, Coordinator. Founded, 2006. Enrollment: 110 students.
Courses Offered: 1950-1970 Civil Rights in Kansas; Music in American History; War in the 20th Century; AP U.S. History Prep; Racial Images & Their Influences on Culture.
Contact Number: 316–973-1400

Jazz Museum in Harlem Saturday Academy
(Manhattan, New York)
Loren Schoenberg, Director. Founded, 2005. Enrollment 45 students.
Course Offered: Harlem Speaks.
Contact Number: 212-348-8300

Lusher Charter School Fortier Campus Saturday Academy
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
Tiffany Cherrie and Wile Ates, Co-Directors. Founded, 2007.
Course Offered: 1960s Revolutions; American Pop; America/War/Film; Sports History: A Constitutional Perspective.
Contact Number: 504-304-3960

Monsignor Farrell High School Saturday Academy
(Staten Island, New York)
Edward Manganel, Director. Founded, 2005. Enrollment: 200 students.
Courses Offered: Staten Island’s Sports History; U.S. History Regents Review; Music and American History; Richmondtown Historical Detectives; AP US History Review; Lincoln and the Civil War; American Inventors/Entrepreneurs; Women of Achievement.
Contact Number: 718-987-2900

Museum of the City of New York (New York, New York)
Laurel Daen , Coordinator. Founded, 2006. Enrollment: 56 students.
Courses Offered: Immigration and the American Experience; The Flag in American History; This Land is our Land: American History through Popular Music; SAT Preparation.
Contact Number: 917-492-3401

New Dorp High School Saturday Academy
(Staten Island, New York)
Ira Zornnberg, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 225 students.
Courses Offered: Research Skills; Illustrating History; Issues on Criminology; Human Rights and the Holocaust; American Culinary Arts; The World Since 1900; The United States Since 1945; American Military History; America at the Olympics.
Contact Number: 718-667-8686

New-York Historical Society Saturday Academy
(Manhattan, New York)
Adrienne Kupper, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 258 students.
Courses Offered: History of Immigration in New York; Exploring Historical Documents Through Drama; Consumer Culture in American History; New York: Past and Present; History of Crime and Law Enforcement in New York; The Use of Historic Archives in American History; SAT Prep.
Contact Number: 212-485-9292

Notre Dame Saturday Academy (Manhattan, New York)
Maryanne Mulvihill, Director. Founded 1997. Enrollment: 285 students.
Courses Offered: The Natural America of Lewis and Clark; Path to the Presidency: The History of Presidential Politics; The British Invasion of the 1960’s; The Palestinians, Israelis, and the United States; Evolution of the Media; Changing Faces of America; Historic Greenwich Village; Conquer the SAT.
Contact Number: 212-620-5575

Rutgers University (Newark, New Jersey)
Elizabeth Aaron, Coordinator. Founded, 2006. Enrollment: 98 students.
Courses Offered: Going Green: Race, Policy, and the Environment; Shattering Silences: Black Women in America from Slavery to the Present; Black New Jersey: African Americans and Modern New Jersey, 1865 to 1945; Telling the Story: The Power of Perspective in History
Contact Number: 973-353-1871

Salesian High School Saturday Academy
(New Rochelle, New York)
John Flaherty & Paul Zaccagnino, Co-Directors. Founded, 2005. Enrollment: 351 students.
Courses Offered: Create a Revolutionary War Web Page; Disney and the American Dream; Political Cartoons; One Nation Under God; Native American Crafts; Colonial Papermaking; I Have a Dream … Important Speeches in American History; Looking at History Through Literature; The Gettysburg Campaign in the Civil War; Conspiracies and Unsolved Mysteries of American History; Book ‘Em … Law Enforcement; The ‘Wright’ Stuff: History of U.S. Aviation and the Space Program; World War II – the Italian Campaign.
Contact Number: 914-632-0248

Santa Fe Public Schools Saturday Academy
(Santa Fe, New Mexico)
John Morrison, Coordinator. Founded, 2007.
Courses Offered: The Cold War; The Art of Exclusion: Minorities and the Media; The Road to 9/11; Stitch a Signal for Freedom: The Quilts of the Underground; US History Through Film; World War II.
Contact Number: 505-467-2400

School Without Walls Saturday Academy
(Washington, DC)
Laurel Clark, Coordinator.
Courses Offered: The American Presidency; Literature and the Lost Generation WWI; Identity and the American Women: A Historic Perspective; Identity and the American Women: A Literary perspective; Can You Dig It?
Contact Number: 202-724-4889

Spanish River Saturday Academy (Palm Beach County, Florida)
Ana Cabrera-Espinala, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 72 students.
Courses Offered: The Great Awakening-Religion and Revivals in Pre-Revolutionary America; World War II; The History of Film; Civil Rights in Twentieth Century America; Economic Unpredictability in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century and the Presidents Who Responded; What Does He mean? What Does He Really Mean?; Life in the White House (for 6th and 7th graders); Exploring the History of American Board Games (for 6th and 7th graders); Personal Financial Management and Responsibility (for 8th graders); Our Constitution and the Law (for 8th graders)
Contact Number: 561-241-2026

University of Maryland Saturday Academy (College Park, Maryland)
Jeremy Sullivan, Director. Founded 2007.
Courses Offered: An Imperial Democracy; Roots of Modern America: Later Nineteenth Century American Society; Everything Old is New Again: American in the 1920s; The Present Becomes the Past: American Politics and Society, 1970-2000.
Contact Number: 301-226-7257