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NEW YORK, NY (September 13, 2007) – The Gilder
Lehrman Institute of American History today announced
an extension of its partnership with the Lynde and Harry
Bradley Foundation to promote American history education
in five Milwaukee schools. Funded by a $200,000 grant
from the Bradley Foundation, the Institute will support
American history schools already in place at Alexander
Hamilton High School, Milwaukee High School of the Arts,
Riverside University High School, and the Wedgewood
Park International School, and will fund a new program
at W.E.B. DuBois High School. “This growing partnership
between The Gilder Lehrman Institute and these five
Milwaukee schools will create new opportunities for
teachers and students to learn about our nation’s
history,” said Lesley Herrmann, Executive Director
of the Gilder Lehrman Institute. “Ultimately,
we believe this partnership will produce not only skilled
educators and committed learners, but also informed
and conscientious citizens.”
The Bradley Foundation has helped fund the Institute’s
educational programs since 1996. The new grant supports
American history-intensive curricula in each participating
school, including special elective courses, primary
source document resources, field trips to historic sites,
a Saturday Academy of American history, and Junior Historians’
Forums, featuring noted historians.
The program at Milwaukee School of the Arts integrates
American history with the school’s arts curriculum,
including a student production of a play portraying
the Salem witch trials. Also offered are American history
electives, taught before school, with classes beginning
as early as 6:30 a.m. Alexander Hamilton High School
offers hands-on courses such as American historical
crafts. At W.E.B. DuBois High School, the grant will
help fund a new eleventh grade American history program.
Each of the participating schools will receive American
History materials and documents from the Institute,
and hold teacher training workshops. The Institute will
also distribute its document-based innovative series
History in a Box to all five Milwaukee schools. History
in a Box provides a one-stop, portable, multimedia resource
on commonly taught topics in American history. Institute
programs have demonstrated an ability to close the achievement
gap for minority students, improve literacy, and accelerate
student accomplishment.
Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute
of American History promotes the study and love of American
history. The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars,
and the general public. It helps create history-centered
schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars
and programs for educators, produces print and electronic
publications and traveling exhibitions, sponsors lectures
by eminent historians, and administers a History Teacher
of the Year Award in every state through its partnership
with Preserve America. The Institute also conducts awards
including the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and George
Washington Book Prizes, and offers fellowships for scholars
to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection and other archives.
The Institute maintains two websites, www.gilderlehrman.org
and the quarterly, online journal www.historynow.org.
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www.gilderlehrman.org
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