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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is proud to partner with Hamilton on the Ham4Progress Award for Educational Advancement.
The award supports college-bound high school students from communities that directly experience the consequences of injustice and discrimination.
This award will provide up to ten Black, Latino/a, Indigenous, and Asian or Pacific Islander students $2,500 for educational purposes in 2021. It is open to college-bound students currently enrolled in grade 11 at a Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School in the 50 United States and District of Columbia …
Due to popular demand, registration has been re-opened for select 2021 Teacher Seminars taking place July 12 through August 12.
The deadline to register is Friday, July 9 at 5 p.m. ET.
Courses re-opened include
African American History since Emancipation
The American Civil War
American Indian History: Case Studies
The American Presidency
Black Women’s History
Colonial North America
The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass
Lives of the Enslaved
Race and Rights in America
The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and…
As a member of our Affiliate School Program, you already have full access to our site without purchasing a subscription.
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This July on Inside the Vault, the online program that highlights unique primary sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, we will feature pivotal moments in American progress, from the Declaration of Independence to the brave charge of the African American soldiers of the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry on Battery Wagner during the Civil War.
On Thursday, July 1, we discover how the news of the Declaration of Independence was received and learn the history behind the William J. Stone printing of the Declaration.
Documents being discussed include
William J. Stone’s…
THE GILDER LEHRMAN INDEPENDENCE DAY GIFT SHOP
Get into the spirit of the 4th of July with the Gilder Lehrman Gift Shop, now offering images from the Gilder Lehrman Collection on coffee mugs, tote bags, t-shirts, and posters!
Click here to start shopping.
BOOK BREAKS: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: A GLOBAL HISTORY
On July 4, David Armitage discusses The Declaration of Independence: A Global History, which examines the Declaration as a political, legal, and intellectual document, and is the first…
We are proud to announce the launch of the “Declaration at 250” initiative at the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
This multi-year project will bring together our archive of historic documents and our network of scholars to examine the importance of the Declaration of Independence and its impact on the modern world. Over the next five years, culminating in 2026, the Institute will continue to create and share digital and print materials to serve teachers, students, and the general public.
Highlights of the project include but are not limited to
Historic documents and publications…
Since the summer of 2020, Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks has featured the most exciting history scholars in America discussing their books live with host William Roka followed by a Q&A with home audiences.
Upcoming books featured in July cover surprising aspects and brutal realities of familiar historical struggles of people through oppression and exclusion in the United States.
OPENING THE GATES TO ASIA
On July 11, Jane Hong discusses her book Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion, in which Hong…
In September 2017, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History was the sole recipient of a grant from the US Department of Education to implement A More Perfect Union (AMPU), a professional development program for teachers designed to build history and civics knowledge and provide pedagogical strategies to take back to their classrooms. Significant to the grant and central to the program, AMPU sought to deliver quality, scholarly content that could prove repeatable in both physical workshops and through distance learning for participants in rural areas.
THE AMPU TIMELINE…
We are pleased to share the winners of our inaugural American History in 100 Documents: An Innovative Curriculum Contest.
Each of the ten winners received a $500 prize and a one-year subscription to American History: 1493–1945, the fully digitized Gilder Lehrman Collection.
Participants created lesson plans using documents from American History: 1493–1945, which provides K–12 schools, universities, and institutions—including Harvard, Yale, and the Library of Congress—access to tens of thousands of rare letters, artwork, broadsides, and maps spanning six centuries of American history…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute is proud to announce the 2021 State History Teachers of the Year.
Since 2004, 855 exemplary American history teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools in all fifty states, Department of Defense schools, Washington DC, and US territories have been named State History Teacher of the Year. Many have gone on to work with the Institute, many as master teachers for programs such as History School.
Inaugurated in 2004, the History Teacher of the Year Award highlights the crucial importance of history education by honoring exceptional American history…
Alabama
Jaclyn Foster
Tuscaloosa Academy, Tuscaloosa
Alaska
Myla Liljemark
Seward Middle School, Seward
Arizona
William Kibler
Cesar Chavez High School, Laveen
Arkansas
Kristy Brasfield
Blytheville High School New Tech, Blytheville
California
Lindsey Charron
Horace Ensign Intermediate School, Newport Beach
Colorado
David Benson
Colorado Springs School, Colorado Springs
Connecticut
Nataliya Braginsky
Metropolitan Business Academy, New Haven
Delaware
Thomas Leighty
Dover High School, Dover
District of…
KOLN/KGIN-TV 10/11 News broadcasts a story about the surprise ceremony for Nebraska History Teacher of the year Nathan Bassett of Lincoln Lutheran Middle and High School.
C&G Newspapers and The Oakland Press interview Ryan Werenka, Michigan History Teacher of the Year at Troy High School
The Chattanoogan reports on and quotes Tennessee History Teacher of the Year Dr. Duke Richey of McCallie School
The New Haven Register features and interviews Connecticut History Teacher of the Year Nataliya Braginsky of the Metropolitan Business Academy, with further…
Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection is an online program that highlights unique primary sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. From iconic historical treasures, such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Emancipation Proclamation, to personal letters that reveal the contributions of ordinary American citizens, each session will investigate primary sources and discuss their background, impact, and potential use in the classroom.
On Thursday, July 29, we examine the first act in American history to…
Since the summer of 2020, Gilder Lehrman Book Breaks has featured the most exciting history scholars in America discussing their books live with host William Roka followed by a Q&A with home audiences.
Upcoming books featured in August are reckonings with aspects of American history that were once pushed to its fringes, from the history of slavery to the treatment of Chinese railroad workers.
These books are all available at the Gilder Lehrman Book Shop.
HOW THE WORD IS PASSED
On August 1, Clint Smith discusses his book How the Word…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Pace University are pleased to announce that registration for Fall 2021 courses is now open for the Pace–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History. The online program for K–12 teachers affiliated with the Gilder Lehrman Institute offers a unique and affordable opportunity for educators to work with two dynamic and eminent institutions dedicated to lifelong learning and career preparedness.
The Fall 2021 semester begins September 29, 2021, and ends December 21, 2021. Applications are open and reviewed on a rolling basis. Registration is open…
NEW HAVEN, CT, August 2, 2021— Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today has announced the finalists for the twenty-third annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African American experience. Jointly sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University, this annual prize of $25,000 recognizes the best book written in English on slavery,…
Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition today announced the finalists for the twenty-third annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize, one of the most coveted awards for the study of the African American experience. Jointly sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University, this annual prize of $25,000 recognizes the best book written in English on slavery, resistance, and/or abolition published in the preceding…
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and Pace University are pleased to announce that registration for Fall 2021 courses is now open for the Pace–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History.
We highlight here one of the five courses offered in the coming semester.
Capitalism in American History
By 1900, the United States was the world’s leading economy. Through a clear definition of capitalism and a set of core questions, this course explores how capitalism emerged in British North America; economic dimensions of the American Revolution and…
Amanda Geduld received her BA in English Literature and Women’s and Gender Studies from Dartmouth College. She went on to study English education at Boston University where she received her M.Ed. She currently teaches 11th and 12th grade literature at a public school in the Bronx in New York City. She is an advocate for education and prison reform, and her writing on these issues has been featured in the Washington Post and on CNN.
Dr. Amanda Bellows is a historian of the nineteenth-century United States. She teaches at The New School in New York City. Her first book, American Slavery and Russian Serfdom in the Post-Emancipation Imagination, was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 2020. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on American slavery and the Civil War era.
Dev Chodry has been managing distressed assets for Scoggin Capital Management since 2001 and co-founded Old Bellows Partners LP in January 2007. Before joining Scoggin, he was a senior distressed analyst with ING Barings and a financial analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group at Wasserstein, Perella & Company. Chodry is on the Leadership Council of the Michael J. Fox Foundation.
Andrew Fentress is a managing partner at ACRES where he leads the capital markets efforts for the investment manager and serves on the management and investment committees. Andrew also serves as the chairman of the board of Acres Commercial Realty Inc., its NYSE-listed commercial mortgage REIT. Andrew was a founding partner of Medley Capital, a private investment firm. Andrew began his career at Morgan Stanley in 1995.
Education activist Elisabeth Gray is a graduate of Oxford University. She is the founder and director of the education firm Oxford Tutors and works with Project Socrates, a new nonprofit think tank dedicated to bridging the current education-opportunity gap. Gray is a member of the 2021 Brady-Johnson Grand Strategy Program. She is currently pursuing graduate studies at Yale University in her quest to bring education equality and excellence to every child in the US.
Lesley S. Herrmann was the first executive director of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, where she served for twenty-two years. She holds a PhD in Slavic languages and literature from Columbia University and started studying American history at Columbia University in 1994. Herrmann now teaches Russian literature at the CUNY Graduate Center in their Peer Learning Program (LP2) and serves on the LP2 board. She is also a guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.