The Gilder Lehrman Institute is delighted to announce the ten finalists for the National History Teacher of the Year Award for 2023:

Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History have announced the finalists for the twenty-fifth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize. This annual prize of $25,000 recognizes the best book written in English on the topics of slavery, resistance, or abolition published in the preceding year. The 2023 Frederick Douglass Book Prize finalists are

Four books published in 2022 by the nation’s most prominent historians were recently named finalists for the George Washington Prize. The annual award recognizes the past year’s best works on the nation’s founding era, especially those that have the potential to advance a broad public understanding of early American history. The 2023 George Washington Prize finalists are

Welcome to the official newsletter for the Hamilton Education Program Online, the program whose goal is to help students in grades 6–12 see the relevance of the Founding Era by using primary sources to create a performance piece (e.g., a song, rap, poem, or scene) following the model used by Lin-Manuel Miranda to create the musical Hamilton.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute is delighted to announce the 2023 State History Teachers of the Year.

The Gettysburg College–Gilder Lehrman MA in American History allows K–12 educators, National Park Service rangers, and public history professionals to pursue a master’s degree from anywhere in the world.