2021 ends on several high notes for the Gilder Lehrman Institute, which we are pleased to share through our Winter Newsletter. We just welcomed our 30,000th Affiliate School—Sequoyah High School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

This holiday season, the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s staff recommends their favorite history books, all of which can be purchased from the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop.

“In Their Own Words” is a new essay contest open to high school students at Gilder Lehrman Affiliate Schools.

Rise, an initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust, is a global talent program that supports extraordinary young people who need opportunity for life as they use their talents to serve others.

This holiday season, the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s staff recommends their favorite history books, all of which can be purchased from the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop. Today, we feature GLI staff members Cassidy Hooker, Alinda Borell, Peter Shea, and Marissa Cheifetz explaining why they chose their books, all of which would make fun holiday gifts.