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NEW YORK, NY (JUNE 2, 2006) – On Friday, June
2nd, thirty A.P. American History students from five
Gilder Lehrman schools in New York traveled to the Franklin
D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde
Park, New York to participate in an interactive forum
with Professor Michael E. Latham, Associate Professor
of American History and Associate Chair for Undergraduate
Study at Fordham University. The discussion, titled
FDR as Commander-in-Chief, drew upon the exhibit, Freedom
from Fear: FDR as Commander-in-Chief, currently on display
at the museum.
The students represented Frederick Douglass Academy
(Manhattan), High School of American Studies at Lehman
College (Bronx), DeWitt Clinton High School (Bronx),
Academy of American Studies (Queens), and Patchogue-Medford
High School (Suffolk County). They also viewed primary-source
documents and took a tour of the exhibit and Roosevelt’s
home guided by the National Park Service.
In preparation for the lecture, each student received
a booklet of primary source documents from the Gilder
Lehrman Collection and the museum’s archive. They
analyzed the documents in their A.P. history classes
and prepared questions for the forum.
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| National Park Service
guide, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library
and Museum, Hyde Park, New York. |
The Gilder Lehrman Institute sponsors 31 history schools
and 14 Saturday academies nationwide. Gilder Lehrman
history schools are rigorous, college-preparatory schools
centered on American history. They have a track record
of raising test scores and sending more than 90 percent
of graduating seniors to college. At the core of these
schools is a four-year sequence of courses in American
history. In many of these schools, the entire student
body participates in the
Gilder Lehrman program. In other schools, a select portion
of the student body participates.
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American
History promotes the study and love of American history.
Increasingly national and international in scope, the
Institute targets audiences ranging from students to
scholars to the general public. It creates history-centered
schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars
and enrichment programs for educators, partners with
school districts to implement Teaching American History
grants, produces print and electronic publications and
traveling exhibitions, and sponsors lectures by eminent
historians. The Institute also funds awards including
the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass and George Washington
Book Prizes and offers fellowships for scholars to work
in history archives, including the Gilder Lehrman Collection.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and
Museum is America's first Presidential Library and the
only one used by a sitting President. The Library was
the model for the nation's presidential library system,
which is administered by the National Archives and Records
Administration.The Library's archival holdings include
17 million pages of documents including 3 million pages
of Eleanor Roosevelt's papers. More than 700 researchers
use the research room yearly making it one of the busiest
in the Presidential Library System. The Museum collection
includes approximately 25,000 objects including personal
items belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Roosevelt, FDR's original
collection of more than 200 ship models and 1200 naval
prints and paintings, Presidential gifts and campaign
memorabilia.
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
19 West 44th Street, Suite 500
New York, NY 10036
www.gilderlehrman.org
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here for more information about Gilder Lehrman History
Schools and Saturday Academies.
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