Seminars are tuition-free. In addition, seminars offer stipends of $500, books, room and board in college dormitories

Applications must be postmarked by March 18, 2005.

Limited to thirty participants per seminar by competitive application.

Seminars 2005

June 19-25

"The Great Depression, World War II, and the American West"
Stanford University
David Kennedy and Richard White

June 26 - July 2

"The Colonial Era"
Yale University
John Demos

"Visions of the American Environment"
University of Colorado, Boulder
Patricia Limerick

"Interpreting the Constitution"
Stanford University
Jack Rakove and Larry D. Kramer

"The Great Plains: America's Crossroads"
University of Colorado, Boulder
Elliott West

July 3-9

"Lincoln"
Gettysburg College
Gabor S. Boritt

July 10-16

"North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective"
University of Maryland
Ira Berlin

"America Between the Wars"
Columbia University
Alan Brinkley and Michael Flamm

"New York in the Gilded Age"
Columbia University
Kenneth Jackson

"The Atlantic World"
Johns Hopkins University
Philip Morgan

"The Era of George Washington"
Brown University
Gordon Wood

July 17-23

"The Civil War in Global Context"
New York University
Thomas Bender

"Freedom" (4th - 8th grade teachers only)
New York University
Carol Berkin and Catherine Clinton

"Passages to Freedom: Abolition and the Underground Railroad"
Yale University
David Blight and James O. and Lois E. Horton

"The Age of Lincoln"
Oxford University, U.K.
Richard Carwardine

July 24-30

"The Cold War"
Cambridge University, UK
Odd Arne Westad

"The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson"
Monticello and the University of Virginia
Daniel P. Jordan

August 7-13

"The Civil Rights Movement"
Cambridge University, UK
Anthony Badger