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Finding educational history activities to do with children in elementary school is particularly challenging in this time of remote learning. Many schools are unable to provide a history curriculum, particularly for younger grades, as they focus on reading, writing, math, and science instead.
As a resource for parents who would like to include history education in home learning and for teachers looking for resources to recommend, the Gilder Lehrman Institute offers a parent/family member free subscription to our website.
In the following weeks, we will offer suggestions for specific…
HAMILTON and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Bring Hands-On Learning to History
NEW YORK, NY (April 21, 2020) -- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI) and HAMILTON today announced the launch of EduHam at Home, a free digital program for students and their families to explore the world of HAMILTON and America’s founding era together—ultimately creating and performing their own narrative in the form of a song, rap, spoken word, or scene.
Students are invited to submit their creations, and selected student performances will be shared on the…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Pace University are pleased to announce that registration for Summer 2020 courses is open for the online Master of Arts in American History Program. We highlight here one of the six courses offered in the coming semester.
The Kennedy Era
At the dawn of the 1960s, polls showed that three-quarters of Americans trusted the national government to do what is right; by 1974, that percentage had plummeted to one-third. In the Kennedy Era, we will explore this crucial turning point in American history when the hope engendered…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute has now added EduHam at Home to its Hamilton Education Program offerings in response to the COVID-19 outbreak that forced school closures throughout the country. EduHam at Home provides a family version of EduHam that can be accomplished outside of a school setting.
As with EduHam, students study primary source documents from the founding era, learn how Lin-Manuel Miranda used such documents to create the musical Hamilton, and finally create their own original performance pieces based on the same material.
EduHam at Home will continue to be…
The country has its eyes on EduHam at Home thanks to articles and other features on the program and Lin-Manuel Miranda.
The April 21 Washington Post feature was picked up by publications such as The Telegraph and The Boston Globe.
Miranda’s appearance on Conan, featuring a spontaneous musical creation, brought further attention to EduHam at Home. Said Miranda to O’Brien: “If you’re bored with your kids, you have the Hamilton curriculum at your disposal now to basically learn to create using primary sources.”
Publications like A.V. Club noted…
In these challenging times, we know that everyone is trying their best to keep students engaged in learning. As the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to K–12 history education, the Gilder Lehrman Institute feels a responsibility to make sure students at home not only have access to our resources but also have opportunities to learn about history directly from teachers, specifically some of the strongest and most proven history teachers in the country, through the Gilder Lehrman Pop-Up History School.
The Gilder Lehrman Pop-Up History School is a series of live interactive…
Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks is a new program that features the most exciting history scholars in America discussing their books with host William Roka live, followed by a Q&A with home audiences.
Programs will take place on Sunday afternoons at 2 p.m. ET.
Register for the Sunday, May 17 Book Breaks with Annette Gordon-Reed here and find the books below here.
May 10, 2020 - Eric Foner discusses his 2019 book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton…
Announcing Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks: Live Discussions with Eminent Historians on Sunday Afternoons
NEW YORK, NY (May 8, 2020) -- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History today announced the start of Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks, an online Sunday afternoon program that features the most exciting historians in America discussing their books live with host William Roka, followed by a Q&A.Programs will take place on Sundays at 2 p.m. ET on Zoom starting on May 10 with renowned historian Eric Foner.President of the Gilder Lehrman Institute James Basker says, “We’re delighted to launch this…
Musical HAMILTON y The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History traen este nuevo recurso de aprendizaje aplicado, para conocer de historia
NUEVA YORK, NY (11 de mayo, 2020) -- The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History y el musical HAMILTON anunciaron hoy el lanzamiento de “EduHam en Casa”, la versión en español de EduHam at Home, un programa digital gratuito para que los estudiantes y sus familias exploren juntos el mundo del musical HAMILTON y la era de la fundación de los Estados Unidos, y que también puedan crear y realizar su…
James Basker Remembers Richard Gilder
The trustees and staff of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the larger community of teachers and students they serve, are profoundly saddened by the death of Richard Gilder. Co-founder and co-chair of the Institute since its beginning in 1994, Dick partnered with his dear friend Lewis Lehrman to elevate and enrich the teaching and learning of American history on a national scale. Starting with one teacher seminar and the donation of the 60,000-item collection of historical documents he and Lew had built, Dick led…
Nominations have been made for the 2022 National History Teacher of the Year Award. For all those nominated, we encourage you to submit your materials by June 15.
Take it from these past State and National winners: It is worth it.
Karalee Nakatsuka, 2019 California State History Teacher of the Year, First Avenue Middle School, Arcadia
Winning this award has allowed me to recognize, celebrate and represent my fellow outstanding history teachers in California and across the country. Among many opportunities, this recognition provided me the chance to write…
Alysha Butler is a social studies teacher at McKinley Technology High School in the District of Columbia. She has a unique gift for combining history, civics, and civics activism in her teaching. Butler has served as a department chair and instructional coach, has organized field trips to Mount Vernon for her students, and was a 2019 GrantEd Recipient, which provided funds for her students to clean up the oldest African American cemetery in the District of Columbia. She guided her students through the Hamilton Education Program curriculum and arranged for them to attend Hamilton when the show…
Michael McCormick has spent over 25 years in the finance industry as a partner and portfolio manager at Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co, LLC. He has successfully built an investment strategy and organization focused on finding unique, growth-oriented companies with management skills to navigate dynamic industries. In 2000, he and his wife, Genine, started the McCormick Family Foundation to support programs that create a positive impact on children’s lives. Over the years this foundation has grown and assisted various programs that are collectively helping to achieve this goal. He currently sits…
Luz Towns-Miranda has worked her entire professional life as a psychologist with the underserved, largely in the Bronx and Washington Heights in New York City. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology from NYU and was licensed in 1985. She received a postdoctoral certificate from NYU’s Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in 1998. Her varied experiences have included assessment and treatment of foster care children, running a therapeutic nursery, and teaching family practice residents at Bronx Lebanon Hospital Center and Montefiore Medical Center. Towns-Miranda…
Dear Friends of the Gilder Lehrman Institute,
I write to our entire Gilder Lehrman Institute community with concern as, in the midst of a global pandemic, a new crisis with terrible historical echoes has arisen. The killing of George Floyd reverberates across our country, evoking memories of lynching and the painful history of slavery and Jim Crow. For many, though, it has been seen with too little historical understanding or context.
From its inception in 1994, the Institute has placed the history of slavery and abolition, and the whole of the African American experience, as a central…
The American Civil War is remembered as being the bloodiest and most devastating of all the wars this country has faced. Brother, it is often said, fought brother. Families and friends were divided. The country nearly split in two, while enslaved people suffered inhuman degradation, and soldiers, some of whom had been enslaved, fought brutal battles and endured sickness, famine, and the elements as they clashed. In previous generations, our collective memory of the war was shaped by books and articles, artwork, and even photography. Today, we relive the years 1861–1865 most commonly and…
We know the songs because they’re sung in school, or at home by our parents, or around the campfire, or on the long car trip. We know they have something to do with the past, but that’s often a mystery. Even a song like “Yankee Doodle Dandy” makes us scratch our collective heads at the feathered cap called macaroni. But these songs run through American history like blood through veins, like rivers they weave and merge, Mississippi to Ohio, “from sea to shining sea.” Some songs were sung as soldiers marched to war, some when enslaved people worked under…
The Washington Post announced the EduHam at Home program on April 21, 2020, with a feature article by theater critic Peter Marks. Along with exploring the development of EduHam itself, the article highlights Gilder Lehrman Institute president James Basker’s explanation of how and why EduHam at Home works:
“This whole thing is in the DNA of ‘Hamilton,’ ” said James G. Basker, professor of literary history at Barnard College and president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute. With the encouragement, too, of historian Ron Chernow, who wrote the biography of Alexander…
Sam Roberts wrote a comprehensive obituary for Richard Gilder on May 14, 2020, calling him “a billionaire investor and benefactor who was instrumental in revitalizing two neglected exemplars of American democracy — the study of American history and Central Park.”
In sumarizing some of the work done by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, Roberts wrote, of Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman
They amassed a collection that would eventually consist of 70,000 original documents, letters, pamphlets, diaries and other primary sources that illuminate American history.
They then…
The Gilder Lehrman Online History School provides engaging live interactive lessons by Master Teachers. We are pleased to offer new courses for the summer months for elementary school, middle school and high school students!
Master Teachers will present lessons anchored in primary source documents, many from the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s collection of more than 70,000 American history artifacts. The goal is to engage students and excite them about history so that they leave each lesson more knowledgeable about a new idea, theme, document, or pivotal moment in history.
See the…
Juneteenth (June 19) commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the Civil War was over and that enslaved people were free.
General Granger issued the following order (General Order No. 3):
The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, “all slaves are free.” This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore…
Every town has historic street signs, monuments, parks, and buildings, but most of our lives we walk right past these pieces of history. Each week, we will experience history outdoors by completing a series of quests throughout our town each week. The Gilder Lehrman Institute NEEDS YOU for this historic mission, so grab an adult, a bicycle or skateboard, or your flip flops to blaze a path toward hidden history that you want to share with us. We can’t wait to hear all about your town’s hidden history!Starting Monday, June 22, classes…
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May 10, 2020 - Eric Foner discussed his 2019 book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution.
Order The Second Founding at the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s Book Shop.
May 17, 2020 - Annette Gordon-Reed discussed her Pulitzer Prize–winning book The Hemingses of…