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The Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen participants' commitment to high quality history teaching. Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National Park Service rangers are eligible. These weeklong seminars provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context for developing practical resources and strategies to take back to the classroom.
Seminars are tuition-free. In addition, seminars offer:
* Stipends of $400 (international stipend of $500)
* Books and teaching resources
* Room and board
Deadline for Applications:
Applications must be postmarked or submitted via online application by February 15, 2008.
Seminars are limited to thirty participants by competitive application. Preference is given to new applicants.
Seminars 2008
For Elementary School Teachers
July 13-19
NEW Teaching American History through Documents
University of Colorado, Boulder
Fritz Fischer
For Middle and High School Teachers
June 22-28
The American Civil War: Origins and Consequences,
Battlefields and Homefront
University of Virginia
Gary Gallagher
NEW British and American Antislavery in the Age of Revolutions
Columbia University
Christopher Brown
The Civil War in Global Context
New York University
Thomas Bender
NEW Everyday Life in Early America
Yale University
John Demos
The Great Depression, World War II, and the American West
(high school teachers only)
Stanford University
David Kennedy and Richard White
NEW The Sixties in Historical Perspective
Georgetown University
Michael Kazin and Michael Flamm
June 26-29
NEW From Colonies to Nation: America in the 18th Century
(4th-8th grade teachers only)
National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, PA
Carol Berkin
June 29 - July 3
NEW The South in American History
University of Richmond
Edward L. Ayers
June 29 - July 5
The American Revolution
(4th - 8th grade teachers only)
New York University
Andrew Robertson
Lincoln
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
Gabor Boritt
July 6-12
The Era of George Washington
Brown University
Gordon Wood
The Great Plains: America's Crossroads
University of Colorado, Boulder
Elliott West
New York in the Gilded Age
Columbia University
Kenneth T. Jackson and Karen Markoe
NEW Twentieth Century Women’s Rights Movements
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University
Nancy Cott
Visions of the American Environment
University of Colorado, Boulder
Patricia Limerick
July 7-11
NEW African American Lives
Harvard University
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Higginbotham
July 13-19
The Age of Lincoln
Oxford University, U.K.
Richard Carwardine
America Between the Wars
Columbia University
Alan Brinkley and Michael Flamm
Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1500 - 1800
Johns Hopkins University
Philip Morgan
North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective
University of Maryland
Ira Berlin
July 14-18
NEW The Cold War
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
Christian Ostermann
July 20-26
NEW The Age of Exploration
Brown University
Ted Widmer
The Constitution and Its Early Interpretation
(high school teachers only)
Stanford University
Jack Rakove and Larry D. Kramer
NEW Key Moments in American Freedom
Harvard University
Orlando Patterson
Passages to Freedom: Abolition and the Underground Railroad
Yale University
David Blight and James O. and Lois E. Horton
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson
Monticello and the University of Virginia
Douglas L. Wilson
July 27 - August 2
The Civil Rights Movement
Cambridge University, U.K.
Anthony Badger
August 3-8
The International Impact of the Declaration of Independence
Monticello and the University of Virginia
David Armitage
August 4-9
NEW Teaching Digital History
New York City, NY
Steven Mintz
August 11-15
NEW Woodrow Wilson and the War Years
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, VA
Patricia O’Toole
August 18-22
NEW The American Judiciary
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor
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