History School Book Club is a perfect resource for any high school student looking for a fun way to explore American history. Book Club content is based on our popular weekly book talk series, Book Breaks, and focuses on topics that are relevant to high school history education and interesting to high school students.
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Students watch a video featuring a renowned historian discussing their pivotal work and answer knowledge-check questions interspersed throughout. They earn badges as they progress through the units in each topic, helping them keep track of their progress. When they complete all the units in the topic, they will receive a certificate.
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Scholarship on the founding era, which runs approximately from the 1760s through the 1790s, continues to evolve, with ongoing debates about the meaning and legacy of the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution.
Image: A detail from an engraving of Benjamin Franklin by Edward Savage, published in London, ca. 1800 (The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, GLC04952)
African Americans have played a central role in shaping US history. Hear experts discuss key moments, milestones, and figures in Black history. Learn about military, scientific, cultural, and political achievements from the colonial era through the abolition of slavery, the civil rights movement, and the election of Barack Obama.
Image: Larry Lieber, Your Future Rests . . . In Your Hands, NAACP, 1964. (The Gilder Lehrman Institute, GLCGLC09640.160)
Free, self-paced courses in American history available exclusively to high school students
Each week our hosts interview a renowned scholar and discuss their acclaimed and frequently award-winning work, followed by a Q&A with the at-home audience.
The online journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute features essays by the nation’s leading historians.
