Press Releases

2020

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