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The Institute is pleased to announce the 2009 Summer Seminar schedule. There are forty seminars available this year. For more information and to apply online, visit:
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/seminars1.html
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 offer:
Room and board
Books and teaching resources
Stipends of $400 (international seminar stipend of $500)
Seminars are limited to thirty participants by competitive application. Preference is given to new applicants.
Deadline for Applications:
Applications must be submitted online by February 15, 2009.
Seminars 2009:
For Elementary and Middle School Teachers
June 28-July 3
The American Revolution
New York University
Andrew Robertson
July 6-July 9
Creating A Nation: America in the Eighteenth Century
National Constitution Center
Carol Berkin and Maureen Festi
August 9-August 16
From the Founding of a Nation to the Crisis of the Union
University of Colorado, Boulder
Carol Berkin and Fritz Fischer
For Middle and High School Teachers
June 21-June 27
The American Civil War: Origins and Consequences,
Battlefields and Homefront
University of Virginia
Gary Gallagher
Everyday Life in Early America
Yale University
John Demos
The Great Depression and World War II
(high school teachers only)
Stanford University
David Kennedy
NEW The Progressive Era in Global Context
(high school teachers only)
New York University
Thomas Bender
The Sixties in Historical Perspective
Georgetown University
Michael Kazin and Michael Flamm
June 28-July 3
The Era of George Washington
Brown University
Gordon Wood
Slavery in the Age of Revolutions
Columbia University
Christopher L. Brown
June 29-July 2
The South in American History
University of Richmond
Edward L. Ayers
July 3-July 5
NEW The Global Lincoln
Oxford University, U.K.
July 5-July 11
NEW The American Revolution
(high school teachers only)
University of California, Los Angeles
Gary Nash
The Great Plains: America's Crossroads
University of Colorado, Boulder
Elliott West
NEW Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship
Yale University
Jonathan Holloway
Lincoln
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
Gabor Boritt and Matthew Pinsker
NEW Remaking America: Nation and Citizen in the Civil War Era
University of Pennsylvania
Stephanie McCurry
Visions of the American Environment
University of Colorado, Boulder
Patricia Limerick
July 7-July 12
The Global Cold War
Cambridge University, U.K.
Odd Arne Westad
July 12-July 18
The Age of Lincoln
Oxford University, U.K.
Richard Carwardine
NEW Depression and Recovery: The Roosevelt Era
Columbia University
Alan Brinkley and Michael Flamm
NEW America's Moral Crisis: Politics and Culture in the 1850s
Columbia University
Andrew Delbanco
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
Twentieth Century Women's Rights Movements
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study,
Harvard University
Nancy Cott
July 19-July 25
NEW Madison and the Constitution
James Madison's Montpelier
Jack Rakove
New York in the Gilded Age
Columbia University
Kenneth Jackson and Karen Markoe
Passages to Freedom: Abolition and the Underground Railroad
Yale University
James O. Horton and Lois E. Horton
Reconstruction
Columbia University
Eric Foner
NEW The Role of the Supreme Court in U.S. History
Stanford University
Larry Kramer
NEW The Urban Experience
Rutgers University
Clement Price
July 26-August 1
NEW Abraham Lincoln and His World
New York City, NY
Allen C. Guelzo
NEW The Age of Jefferson
University of Virginia
Peter Onuf and Frank Cogliano
The Civil Rights Movement
Cambridge University, U.K.
Anthony Badger
Teaching Digital History
New York University
Steven Mintz
NEW The U.S. and the Cold War
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Melvyn P. Leffler and Christian Ostermann
NEW U.S.-China Relations
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Chen Jian and Christian Ostermann
July 31-August 10
NEW The Middle Passage: A Shared History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
(high school teachers only)
Kokrobitey Institute, Kokrobitey, Ghana
James Walvin and Stephanie Smallwood
August 2-August 7
The International Impact of the Declaration of Independence
Monticello and the University of Virginia
David Armitage
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