For Elementary School
Teachers
July 13-19
NEW Teaching
American History through Documents
University of Colorado, Boulder
Fritz Fischer
For more information, click
here.
For Middle and High School Teachers
June 22-28
The American Civil War: Origins and
Consequences,
Battlefields and Homefront
University of Virginia
Gary Gallagher
For more information, click
here.
NEW British
and American Antislavery in the Age of Revolutions
Columbia University
Christopher Brown
The Civil War in Global Context
New York University
Thomas Bender
For more information, click
here.
NEW Everyday
Life in Early America
Yale University
John Demos
For more information, click
here.
The Great Depression, World War II,
and the American West
(high school teachers only)
Stanford University
David Kennedy and Richard White
For more information, click
here.
NEW
The Sixties in Historical Perspective
Georgetown University
Michael Kazin and Michael Flamm
For more information, click
here.
June 26-29
NEW
From Colonies to Nation: America in the 18th Century
(4th-8th grade teachers only)
National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA
Carol Berkin
For more information, click
here.
June 29 - July 3
NEW
The South in American History
University of Richmond
Edward L. Ayers
For more information, click
here.
June 29 - July 5
The American Revolution
(4th - 8th grade teachers only)
New York University
Andrew Robertson
For more information, click
here.
Lincoln
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
Gabor Boritt
For more information, click
here.
July 6-12
The Era of George
Washington
Brown University
Gordon Wood
For more information, click
here.
The Great Plains: America's Crossroads
University of Colorado, Boulder
Elliott West
For more information, click
here.
New York in the Gilded Age
Columbia University
Kenneth T. Jackson and Karen Markoe
For more information, click
here.
NEW
Twentieth Century Women’s Rights Movements
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study,
Harvard University
Nancy Cott
For more information, click
here.
Visions of the American Environment
University of Colorado, Boulder
Patricia Limerick
For more information, click
here.
July 7-11
NEW
African American Lives
Harvard University
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham
For more information, click
here.
July 13-19
The Age of Lincoln
Oxford University, U.K.
Richard Carwardine
For more information, click
here.
America Between the Wars
Columbia University
Alan Brinkley and Michael Flamm
For more information, click
here.
Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic
World, 1500 - 1800
Johns Hopkins University
Philip Morgan
For more information, click
here.
North American Slavery in Comparative
Perspective
University of Maryland
Ira Berlin
For more information, click
here.
July 14-18
NEW
The Cold War
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington,
D.C.
Christian Ostermann
For more information, click
here.
July 20-26
NEW
The Age of Exploration
Brown University
Ted Widmer
The Constitution and Its Early Interpretation
(high school teachers only)
Stanford University
Jack Rakove and Larry D. Kramer
For more information, click
here.
NEW
Key Moments in American Freedom
Harvard University
Orlando Patterson
Passages to Freedom: Abolition and
the Underground Railroad
Yale University
David Blight and James O. and Lois E. Horton
For more information, click
here.
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson
Monticello and the University of Virginia
Douglas L. Wilson
For more information, click
here.
July 27 - August 2
The Civil Rights Movement
Cambridge University, U.K.
Anthony Badger
For more information, click
here.
August 3-8
The International Impact of the Declaration of Independence
Monticello and the University of Virginia
David Armitage
For more information, click
here.
August 4-9
NEW Teaching Digital
History
New York City, NY
Steven Mintz
For more information, click
here.
August 11-15
NEW Woodrow Wilson
and the War Years
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, VA
Patricia O’Toole
For more information, click
here.
August 18-22
NEW
The American Judiciary
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
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he Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen
participants' commitment to high quality history teaching.
Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National
Park Service rangers are eligible. These weeklong seminars
provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context
for developing practical resources and strategies to take
back to the classroom. 
