Founders and Co-chairmen
Richard Gilder, co-founder of the Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History, heads the brokerage firm
Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. He is Chairman of the Executive Committee
at the New-York Historical Society and serves on the Executive
Board of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and
Culture. He is a trustee of the Morgan Library & Museum,
the American Museum of Natural History, the Central Park Conservancy,
and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation. In 2005, Richard Gilder
and Lewis Lehrman received the National Humanities Medal for
their work promoting the study and love of American history.
Lewis E. Lehrman is co-founder of the
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and a Trustee of
the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of
Abolition and Slavery at Yale University. He is Chairman of L.E. Lehrman & Co., a Greenwich-based investment partnership. He was the 1982
Republican and Conservative parties' gubernatorial candidate
in New York, and later a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley.
He is a Trustee of the New-York Historical Society. He received
his Bachelor of Arts degree at Yale University in 1960, after
which he won a Carnegie Teaching Fellowship as an instructor
of history on the Yale faculty. Subsequently, he received his
master's degree as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow from Harvard University.
His articles on Abraham Lincoln have appeared in The Wall
Street Journal, Greenwich Time and other periodicals.
He has been awarded Honorary Degrees from Babson College (Babson
Park, MA), Gettysburg College (Gettysburg, PA), Marymount University
(Arlington, VA), Thomas Aquinas College (Santa Paula, CA) and
Lincoln College (Lincoln, IL). In 2005, he was awarded the National
Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush in an Oval Office
ceremony.
Advisory Board
Joyce Oldham Appleby, Professor of
History Emerita at the University of California, Los Angeles,
is past president both of the American Historical Association
and the Organization of American Historians. She co-directs
the History News Service, a volunteer syndicate of historians
writing newspaper op-ed essays that put contemporary issues
into historical perspective. Her books include Economic
Thought and Ideology in Seventeenth-Century England; Capitalism
and a New Social Order; Liberalism and Republicanism
in the Historical Imagination; Inheriting the Revolution:
The First Generation of Americans; and most recently,
Thomas Jefferson (The American Presidents Series).
Edward L. Ayers is President of the
University of Richmond. His books include Promise of the
New South: Life after Reconstruction, a finalist for
both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and In
the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America,
1859-1863, which won the Bancroft Prize and the Albert
J. Beveridge Prize. A pioneer in digital history, Ayers was
a co-recipient of the first Lincoln Prize from the Gilder
Lehrman Institute and Gettysburg College in 2001.
William F. Baker is CEO of the Educational
Broadcasting Corporation. Among his honors in public television
are four Emmy Awards as a producer, two DuPont Columbia Journalism
Awards, and the Trustees Emmy Award of the National Academy
of Television Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Down
the Tube: An Inside Account of the Failure of American Television.
He is a director of the Public Broadcasting Service, Rodale
Press, Consumer Union, and is on the advisory board of the
National Park System, among other organizations.
Thomas Bender is University Professor
of the Humanities at New York University. He is author of
New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New
York from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time; Rethinking
American History in a Global Age; The Unfinished City:
New York and the Metropolitan Idea; and A Nation Among
Nations: America's Place in World History.
Carol Berkin is Presidential Professor
of History at Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City
University of New York. She is the author of several books
including Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an American Conservative;
First Generations: Women in Colonial America; A
Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution;
and Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for America's
Independence. She is the editor of History Now,
the Gilder Lehrman Institute's quarterly online journal.
Ira Berlin, Distinguished University
Professor in the Department of History at the University of
Maryland, has written extensively on Southern and Afro-American
history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is founder
and former director of the Freedmen and Southern Society Project,
and a past president of the Organization of American Historians.
He is author of Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery,
Freedom, and the Civil War and Generations of Captivity:
A History of African-American Slaves.
Lewis W. Bernard is Chairman and founder
of Classroom, Inc., which uses computer-based simulations
of real-life experiences in schools and community-based organizations.
He is the former Chief Administrative and Financial Officer
of Morgan Stanley & Co. He is Chairman of the board of the
American Museum of Natural History and serves on the boards
of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the John and Mary Markle Foundation,
the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Marsh and McLennan
Companies.
David W. Blight, Class of '54 Professor
of American History at Yale University, is the author of Race
and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, for which
he won the 2001 Frederick Douglass Prize and the 2002 Bancroft
and Lincoln Prizes. His other books include Beyond the
Battlefield: Race, Memory and the Civil War; Frederick
Douglass' Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee; and the
edited volumes When this Cruel War is Over: The Civil War
Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster; Narrative of the
Life of Frederick Douglass; and The Souls of Black
Folk, by W.E.B. DuBois. He is also Director of the Gilder
Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
at Yale University.
Gabor S. Boritt, (co-chairman, advisory
board) Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies and
Director of the Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College, serves
on the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. Among his publications
are Lincoln and the Economics of the American Dream;
Why the Confederacy Lost; Lincoln's Generals;
Why the Civil War Came; The Gettysburg Nobody Knows;
The Lincoln Enigma; and The Gettysburg Gospel: The
Lincoln Speech That Nobody Knows.
Richard Brookhiser is Senior Editor
at National Review. His books include Founding Father:
Rediscovering George Washington; Alexander Hamilton,
American; America's First Dynasty: The Adamses of Massachusetts;
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who
Wrote the Constitution; and What Would the Founders
Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers. He wrote and narrated
the film The Character of George Washington, which
aired on PBS in 2002. He was the Historian Curator of the
New-York Historical Society's show, Alexander Hamilton:The
Man Who Made Modern America.
Christopher Leslie Brown is Visiting Professor of History at Columbia University. He is the author of Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism, which was awarded the 2007 Frederick Douglass Book Prize.
Kenneth L. Burns is producer, director,
co-writer, and cameraman for the nine-part PBS series The
Civil War, which won the 1991 Lincoln Prize, as well as Jazz, Baseball, and Brooklyn Bridge,
among others. His documentaries have won Emmy Awards, a Peabody
Award, the D.W. Griffith Award, the Erik Barnouw Prize, two
Grammy awards, and earned two Academy Award nominations.
Ric Burns, documentary filmmaker, produced the award-winning series New York: A Documentary Film, which aired on PBS. He has produced, written, and directed many other films for public television, including Coney Island, The Donner Party, The Way West, Ansel Adams, and The Civil War, which he produced with his brother Ken and wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. For his films he has received Emmys, a Peabody, a Christopher Award, and the Alfred I. du Pont-Columbia University Award, among others.
Andrew Carroll is the founder and Director
of the Legacy Project, a national, all-volunteer initiative
that encourages Americans to seek and preserve wartime correspondence.
Since 1998, the Legacy Project has received more than 75,000
previously-unpublished letters from every conflict in U.S.
history. He has edited the national bestsellers Letters
of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters
and War Letters: Extraordinary Correspondence from American
Wars, as well as Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan,
and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their
Families.
David Brion Davis (co-chairman, advisory
board) is Sterling Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University
and Director Emeritus of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the
Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.
Among his many books are The Problem of Slavery in Western
Culture; The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution,
1770-1823; Slavery and Human Progress; The Boisterous
Sea of Liberty (with Steven Mintz); In the Image of
God: Religion, Moral Values, and Our Heritage of Slavery;
Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery; and Inhuman
Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World.
His honors include the Pulitzer Prize, the Bancroft Prize,
the National Book Award for History and Biography, an honorary
degree from Columbia University, and an Award for Scholarly
Distinction from the American Historical Association.
Richard Ekman, President of the Council of Independent Colleges, previously served as Vice President for Programs of the Atlantic Philanthropic Service Company and Secretary of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A former history professor, college dean, and administrator at the National Endowment for the Humanities, he serves on several educational and not-for-profit advisory boards.
Joseph J. Ellis is Ford Foundation
Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. He is the author
of several books on American history. He won the Pulitzer
Prize for his book, Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary
Generation, and the National Book Award for American
Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. His other books
include Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John
Adams and His Excellency: George Washington.
Drew Gilpin Faust is President of Harvard University.
Her books include Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding
South in the American Civil War, for which she won the Francis
Parkman Prize; Southern Stories: Slaveholders in Peace and
War; The Creation of Confederate Nationalism: Ideology
and Identity in the Civil War South; A Sacred Circle:
The Dilemma of the Intellectual in the Old South; and James
Henry Hammond and the Old South: A Design for Mastery.
David Hackett Fischer is University Professor
and Warren Professor of History at Brandeis University. He is
the author of Albion’s Seed, The Great Wave, Liberty and Freedom, Paul Revere’s Ride,
and Washington’s Crossing, for which he received
the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in History.
Seymour Fliegel is President of the Center for Educational Innovation/Public Education Association in New York City, where he is the Richard Gilder Senior Fellow. A former principal and superintendent, his work in East Harlem's District Four brought national attention to the issue of public school choice. The history of his impact on the education system is described in his book Miracle in East Harlem: The Fight for Choice in Public Education.
Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor
of History at Columbia University, is a former president of
the Organization of American Historians and of the American
Historical Association. He won the Bancroft Prize for his Reconstruction:
America's Unfinished Revolution 1863-1877. His other books
include Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of
the Republican Party Before the Civil War; America's
Black Past: A Reader in Afro American History; Nat Turner; The Story of American Freedom; and Who Owns
History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World.
Ellen V. Futter has been President of
the American Museum of Natural History since 1993. Before joining
the Museum she served as President of Barnard College for thirteen
years. Committed to public service, Ms. Futter serves on the
boards of several non-profit and for-profit organizations. She
formerly served as Chairman of the Board of New York Federal
Reserve Bank. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
She has received numerous honorary degrees and awards.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is Alphonse
Fletcher University Professor and Director of the W.E.B. Du
Bois Institute for African and African American Research at
Harvard University. Among his books are Thirteen Ways of
Looking at a Black Man; The Signifying Monkey: A Theory
of Afro-American Literary Criticism; Loose Canons:
Notes on the Culture Wars; Colored People: A Memoir;
and America Behind the Color Line: Dialogues with African
Americans. He is editor of The Norton Anthology of
African American Literature and The Bondwoman's Narrative,
a novel by Hannah Crafts.
S. Parker Gilbert is Chairman Emeritus
of the Morgan Stanley Group. He also serves on the Board of
Trustees at the Morgan Library, the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation; and is a director of the
Josiah H. Macy Foundation. Mr. Gilbert also serves as a director
of Bessemer Securities Corporation and Managing Director of
Bessemer Securities LLC; and as a director of the Taubman Centers,
Inc.
Allen C. Guelzo is the Henry R. Luce
Professor of the Civil War Era and Professor of History at Gettysburg
College. He won the 2000 Lincoln Prize for Abraham Lincoln:
Redeemer President and the annual best-article prize for
2002 from Civil War History for "Defending Emancipation:
Abraham Lincoln and the Conkling Letter, 1863." He won the 2005
Lincoln Prize for Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The
End of Slavery in America.
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