Press Releases

2022

2022 George Washington Prize Awarded to Bruce A. Ragsdale for “Washington at the Plow”

Announcing the Gilder Lehrman College Fellows in American History for 2022 

Gilder Lehrman Institute Voting Rights Project Wins 2022 Leonore Annenberg Award

The Gettysburg College–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History

Gilder Lehrman Institute Holds Inaugural Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg College Summer of 2022

2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Recipient Announced

The Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Office of the Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards Present “Witnessing History: The Pardon of Homer Plessy” on March 16, 2022

2021

Announcing the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Co-Winners Vincent Brown and Marjoleine Kars

Announcing the 2021 Gilder Lehrman Scholarly Fellows

Alexander Mikaberidze Wins the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize

Connecticut High School Teacher Nataliya Braginsky Named 2021 National History Teacher of the Year

Announcing the 2021 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists

Ten Finalists for the Inaugural Gilder Lehrman-Rise Prize Announced

Ten Winners of American History in 100 Documents: An Innovative Curriculum Contest Announced

2021 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Recipient Announced

The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation Grant Funds Long Island, Brooklyn, Queens, and Greater New York State Gilder Lehrman Affiliate Schools

The John Winthrop Fellowship with a Focus on Colonial History

Announcing the 2021 Lincoln Prize Finalists

2020

Yale and the Gilder Lehrman Institute Announce 2020 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner

John C. McManus Wins the Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize

Rick Atkinson Receives the 2020 George Washington Prize for The British Are Coming

Digital Version of Celebrated Hamilton Education Program to be Offered Free to Schools Nationwide

“Eduham en Casa” Versión en Español del Programa Educacional de Hamilton, Ahora Disponible para Estudiantes y Sus Familias

Announcing Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks: Live Discussions with Eminent Historians on Sunday Afternoons

EduHam At Home: A Digital Version of the Hamilton Education Program Now Available to Students and Their Families Nationwide

2020 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Recipient Announced

Announcing the 2020 Lincoln Prize Finalists

2019

Yale and the Gilder Lehrman Institute Announce 2019 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner

Andrew Lambert Wins the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History

Author Colin Calloway Wins 2019 George Washington Prize

Washington DC High School Social Studies Teacher Named 2019 National History Teacher of the Year

Digital Version of Celebrated Hamilton Education Program to Be Offered Free to Schools Nationwide

David Blight Awarded the 2019 Lincoln Prize for Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom

2018

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Receives Grant from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation

Rutgers, Harvard Professors Share 20th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize 

Cathal Nolan Wins Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History

Announcing the 2018 History Teacher of the Year: Joseph Welch

New Pace–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History

The George Washington Prize