The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

Registration is now open for 2021 Teacher Seminars. Registration will be available until May 14, 2021. Teachers who have registered will have access to seminars from June 1 to August 31.

Participants will be able to access pre-recorded lectures and digital resources beginning June 1. 

Make sure you are logged in to the Gilder Lehrman website. The registration form can be found here. Please follow the prompts to proceed with your registration.

Live sessions for each seminar will take place within the week of that scheduled seminar. Each seminar will have at least 3 Q&As and 2 pedagogy sessions. 

In order to receive credit for your participation, you must attend all live scholar and master teacher sessions during the week of your seminar.

We have planned the schedule to minimize live session overlap wherever possible. This means that you can participate in multiple Seminars across weeks or within the same week. However, there may be 15 minutes of overlap. Please check the start and end times of all live sessions before submitting your registration.

Seminar materials will be available from June 1 through August 31, 2021.

• Full-time K–12 teachers of all subjects, principals, and librarians from schools in our Affiliate School Program may register for Teacher Seminars.
• Curriculum specialists and district supervisors may register for Online Teacher Seminars as long as one of the schools they work with is in our Affiliate School Program.
• National Park Service (NPS) interpreters (Application was May 1).
• Community College Instructors please click here to apply.

You may register for as many Teacher Seminars as you like.

There is a non-refundable $25 registration fee per seminar. Fees are paid by credit card and your space in the seminar is not confirmed until payment is received.

Please email seminars@gilderlehrman.org to withdraw. Please note that registration fees are non-refundable.

Gilder Lehrman Teacher Seminars are generally eligible for CEU and PDP credits, but it is your responsibility to verify eligibility with your school administration or state PD office. (Please note that the Institute is an approved provider of professional development in Massachusetts, New York, and Texas.) If you need more information to determine eligibility than is available on the Teacher Seminars page, please email us at seminars@gilderlehrman.org.

Certificates of completion will be shared with participants upon completion of an online seminar (measured by viewing all lectures and participating in all live sessions) by August 31. Participants will receive certificates by September 15.

At this time, we are not able to offer graduate credit for our Teacher Seminars. You may wish to consider taking courses in the Pace–Gilder Lehrman Institute MA in American History Program.

Teacher Seminars participants can view lectures on any device with a good Internet connection, though accessing the seminars on a desktop or laptop computer works best. You will need headphones or speakers to listen to and watch the lectures.

In order to participate in the live Q&As and pedagogy sessions, which will take place on Zoom, you will need a webcam or, at least, your computer’s microphone or a smartphone with the Zoom Android or iOS application installed. There will also be an audio-only option to call in to Q&As and pedagogy sessions using a phone.

All Teacher Seminars will be hosted in Gilder Lehrman’s Online Learning Community via TalentLMS. TalentLMS is a cloud-based platform that can be accessed via all browsers, including Firefox, IE 9+, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. It is also compatible with browsers used by mobile devices (i.e., iOS and Android). All seminar participants will be provided with a TalentLMS account that will give you access to lecture videos, online resources, participant discussion boards, and links to all of the live Zoom sessions.