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About page Open Positions at the Gilder Lehrman Institute Internship Program Read more about our Internship Program . Development Manager The Organization The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI) is the nation’s leading American history organization dedicated to K–12 education....
Basic Page Veterans Legacy Project | 2024 Student Contest Winners The 2024 World War II: Portraits of Service Award Winners About the Contest As part of the Veterans Legacy Program , the Gilder Lehrman Institute is pleased to announce the ten winners of the 2024 World War II: Portraits of...
Basic Page Veterans Legacy Program | Student Contest Student Contest The 2024 World War II: Portraits of Service Awards Submit an original essay, report, eulogy, poem, song, mini-podcast, or mini-documentary profiling the sacrifices, strengths, and legacies of a World War II Veteran who was honorably...
Basic Page History U History U The Gilder Lehrman Institute’s History U offers free, self-paced courses in American history to high school students. Each History U course includes Video lectures by a leading history professor Primary sources and in-depth readings Short...
Basic Page Period 7: 1890-1945 (AP US History) Period 7: 1890-1945 An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role. Topics may include Debates over Imperialism...
Basic Page Homepage Teacher Seminars Online Study with eminent American history professors and dive deep into primary sources with master teachers this summer. Each of our seminars is composed of lectures that you can watch on your own schedule as well as live Zoom...
Basic Page Master's Degree in American History Master's Degree in American History K–12 educators can earn their graduate degree in this affordable, online, accredited program. It’s easy to apply and become an enrolled student. Applications are open all year and are reviewed on a rolling basis....
Basic Page All Upcoming Events All Upcoming Events May 2024 All Audiences Book Breaks Subscription Sunday, May 26, 2024 at 2:00 pm ET Dylan Penningroth, University of California, Berkeley Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights June...
Basic Page American Revolution The American Revolution REGISTRATION CLOSED When did the American Revolution begin and end? What were its causes and effects? How did entirely new forms of both freedom and unfreedom come about at exactly the same time? We will investigate these...
Basic Page The American Civil War (Teacher Symposium) The American Civil War REGISTRATION CLOSED This course examines the era of the American Civil War, with emphasis on its origins, scope, and consequences. Lead Scholar : Gary Gallagher, University of Virginia Master Teacher : Gena Oppenheim Image...
Basic Page The Civil Rights Movement (Teacher Symposium) The Civil Rights Movement REGISTRATION CLOSED This course will examine the US Civil Rights Movement. It will begin by looking at Black life in the early twentieth century—the height of the Jim Crow era—to establish critical context for the Black...
Basic Page American Presidency (Teacher Symposium) The American Presidency The Most Powerful, Impossible Job in the World REGISTRATION CLOSED The course will discuss the origins of the presidency and the executive branch, how it has evolved over the past 234 years, and the challenges facing the...
Basic Page America Heads West (Teacher Symposium) America Heads West Westward Expansion and the Making of the Nation REGISTRATION CLOSED In this course, we will follow the westward growth of the United States, from its colonial beginnings to the late nineteenth century, and consider how that...
Basic Page Native American History (Teacher Symposium) Native American History REGISTRATION CLOSED This course will offer glimpses of the daunting diversity of Native America—thousands of distinctive peoples, cultures, languages, and lifeways stretching over millennia. Lead Scholar : K. Tsianina...
Basic Page Sport in American History (Teacher Symposium) Sport in American History Meanings Beyond the Field, Court, Track, and Rink REGISTRATION CLOSED This course examines the historical development of sport in the United States from a societal and cultural viewpoint and explores the significance of...
Basic Page All Upcoming Deadlines All Upcoming Deadlines May 2024 NHTOY Friday, May 31, 2024 at 11:59 pm ET Last Day to Submit Dossier submissions are due for National History Teacher of the Year nominees. June 2024 MA in American History Wednesday, June 5,...
News Brown v. Board of Education: On This Day, May 17 On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas , unanimously ruling that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The decision overturned the 1896...
About page Scholarly Advisory Board Cawo Abdi, Professor of Sociology University of Minnesota Lauren Acker, History Instructor Pasadena City College Laura Rosanne Adderley, Associate Professor of African Diaspora History Tulane University Westenley Alcenat, Assistant...
Basic Page Reconstruction and Resistance Reconstruction and Resistance: Constructing a Nation Led by : Prof. Kermit Roosevelt III (University of Pennsylvania) Course Number : AMHI 646 Semesters : Summer 2024 Image: Engraving of five African American members of Congress, ca. 1870 (The...
Basic Page World War I World War I (A Six-Week Compressed Course, Term I) Led by : Prof. Michael Neiberg (US Army War College) Course Number : AMHI 655 Semesters : Summer 2017, Summer 2020, Summer 2022, Summer 2024 (Term I) Image: Adolph Treidler, For Every Fighter a...
Basic Page World War II World War II (A Six-Week Compressed Course, Term II) Led by : Prof. Michael Neiberg (US Army War College) Course Number : AMHI 656 Semesters : Fall 2018, Summer 2020, Summer 2022, Summer 2024 (Term II) Image: A photograph of President Franklin D....
Basic Page Black Women's History Black Women's History (A Six-Week Compressed Course, Term II) Led by : Prof. Kellie Carter Jackson (Wellesley College) Course Number : AMHI 675 Semesters : Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Spring 2023, Summer 2024 (Term II) Image: Shirley Chisholm campaign...
Basic Page The American West The American West Led by : Prof. Elliott West (University of Arkansas) Course Number : AMHI 632 Semesters : Spring 2020, Summer 2022, Summer 2024 Image : William Hicks Jackson, Walpi Pueblo First Hopi Mesa, Arizona (The Gilder Lehrman Institute,...
Basic Page The History of American Protest The History of American Protest Led by : Prof. John Stauffer (Harvard University) Course Number : AMHI 691 Semesters : Fall 2019, Summer 2021, Summer 2024 Image: Warren K. Leffler, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963 (Library...