K-12 history, social studies and English teachers are invited to apply to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History 2010 Summer Seminars. Taught by renowned historians on college campuses in the US and the UK, these one-week seminars give educators the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of topics in American history—while gaining practical resources and strategies to take back to the their classrooms.

For a list of all thirty-nine seminars, information about full and partial fellowships, graduate credit, and to apply online, visit:

http://www.gilderlehrman.org/education/ seminar_course_offerings.php

NEW Seminars in 2010:

The Gilded Age: 1865-1896 with Richard White at Stanford University John and Abigail Adams with Joseph Ellis at Amherst College Economic and Financial Crises in American History with Richard Sylla at New York University New Perspectives on American Wars, 1750-1865 with Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton at Miami University of Ohio Civil Rights in America with Clarence Taylor at Hampden-Sydney College Women's Rights in the US with Lisa Levenstein at Duke University

Returning Seminars, among others:

The Great Depression and WWII with David Kennedy at Stanford University The South in American History with Edward L. Ayers at the University of Richmond From the Founding of a Nation to the Crisis of the Union with Carol Berkin at James Madison's Montpelier The Sixties in Historical Perspective with Michael Kazin and Michael Flamm at Georgetown University Visions of the American Environment with Patrcia Limerick at the University of Colorado, Boulder

Apply early: seminar space is limited. APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 15, 2010.