Study with world-renowned scholars, connect with other teachers from across the United States, and reinvigorate your enthusiasm for teaching history! Whatever your budget and interests, the Gilder Lehrman Institute has a professional development opportunity for you next summer.
Online Options: 10 Teacher Seminars
In-person Options: 12 options in 7 locations across 5 states
22 Programs
In Person & Online
Interested in learning more about the MA in American History? Sign up for an open house! Each one offers an overview of the MA program, a walkthrough of the application process, and a Q&A session with program administrators, students, and graduates.
Professor Nikki Brown addresses the rise, institutionalization, fall, and lasting impact of racial segregation laws in the United States. Students will examine the growth and popularity of Jim Crow laws and spend particular time exploring the ways African Americans mitigated, or tried to moderate, the worst excesses of these laws.
15 Professional Development Hours
Frank J. Cirillo, The Abolitionist Civil War: Immediatists and the Struggle to Transform the Union
Frances M. Clarke and Rebecca Jo Plant, Of Age: Boy Soldiers and Military Power in the Civil War Era
John C. Rodrigue, Freedom’s Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower
Yael A. Sternhell, War on Record: The Archive and the Afterlife of the Civil War
Ronald C. White, On Great Fields: The Life and Unlikely Heroism of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Explore the reactions of Americans who faced a crisis of loyalties with five essays by historians and additional Gilder Lehrman resources.
Our master’s degree program gives K–12 educators an affordable way to earn a graduate degree while working full time.
Explore American history from your own home, in your own time, and at your own pace! Educators can obtain professional development credit.
These self-paced courses in American history are taught by the nation's top historians and are completely free for high school students.
Submit your best creative piece for the chance to see Hamilton in New York City!
Deepen your knowledge of this holiday with historical documents, essays, and videos from the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
Q&A session for prospective students to learn about the Gettysburg College–Gilder Lehrman master's degree program.
A two-week NEH Summer Institute for teachers on Asian American and Pacific Islander histories
Last chance to apply for a spot in one of four summer Teacher Seminars in California, Illinois, New Jersey, or Virginia.
Affiliate Schools, libraries, and other sites can host this exhibition for free in April and May.
Every Sunday at 2:00 pm ET (11:00 am PT) on Zoom
Join us for our weekly interview series in which historians discuss their acclaimed books followed by a Q&A with the at-home audience. A Book Breaks subscription includes access to the weekly live programs and our ever-expanding archive, featuring 150+ episodes.
Yale and Slavery: A History
King Hancock: The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father
American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail
We hold many rare copies of foundational American documents, like this first draft of the US Constitution
Discover 2,000+ individuals who lived through the American Revolution, like the poet Phillis Wheatley.
Bring history to life with visual sources, like this US War Department recruitment poster (ca. 1944–1945).
In addition to documents, the Collection includes objects, like this campaign button for Lyndon Johnson.
Our Collection highlights the contributions of many Americans, like those of a female pilot in the 1910s.
Explore the fight against slavery through abolitionist writings, like this note by Frederick Douglass.
The Online Journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute
History Now features essays by the nation’s leading historians and provides the latest in American history scholarship for teachers, students, and general readers.
Veterans Legacy Program: Online Exhibition
Gilder Lehrman is proud to announce the launch of this new online exhibition introducing viewers to nineteen men and women who served during six conflicts in American history.
Stay up to date with all the work that we do to combat historical illiteracy and invigorate the study of the past.
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