The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. For Teachers and Students. Seminars

The Founding Era

David Armitage
Lloyd C. Blanfkein Professor of History, Harvard University. International Impact of the Declaration of Independence

Thomas Bender
University Professor of the Humanities, NYU. The Civil War in Global Context

Carol Berkin
Presidential Professor of History at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY. The American Revolution

Larry Kramer
Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean, Stanford Law School. Interpreting the Constitution

Jack Rakove
W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies, Stanford University. Interpreting the Constitution

Andrew Robertson
Professor of American History, Lehman College Graduate Center, CUNY. The American Revolution

Gordon Wood
Alva O. Way University Professor, Brown University. The American Revolution

Slavery and Abolition

Ira Berlin
Distinguished University Professor in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. History of Slavery

David Blight
Class of '54 Professor of History at Yale and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Abolition

James O. Horton
Benjamin Banneker Professor of American Studies and History at George Washington University. Slavery in the Founding Era

Lois Horton
Professor of History, George Mason University. Abolition

The Civil War Era

Edward Ayers
President, University of Richmond. Legacy of the American Civil War

Eric Foner
DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University. Reconstruction

Gary Gallagher
John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War, University of Virginia. Legacy of the American Civil War

Allen Guelzo
Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era, Gettysburg College. Abraham Lincoln

America in the Twentieth Century

Anthony Badger
Master of Clare College, University of Cambridge. The Civil Rights Movement

Alan Brinkley
Provost, Columbia University, and Allan Nevins Professor of History. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Michael Flamm
Associate Professor of History, Ohio Wesleyan University. Franklin D. Roosevelt

David Kennedy
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History at Stanford University. The Great Depression

Steven Mintz
Rebecca Moores Professor of History at the University of Houston. Digital Documentary Production

Richard White
Margaret Byrne Professor of American History at Stanford University. History of the American West