Benefits

The Institute invites your school to join the largest network of American-history-focused schools in the country helping to promote cutting-edge, document-based history education. We welcome applications from all schools, rural and urban, public, charter, independent and parochial.

Gilder Lehrman Affiliate Schools receive:

• Preferential consideration to highly competitive Teacher Seminars
• Free classroom materials three times a year and discounts on all Gilder Lehrman resources including posters and books.
• Unlimited access to the Gilder Lehrman Collection of more than 60,000 American historical documents
• Museum quality traveling panel exhibitions on major historical topics
• Invitations to forums and conferences featuring leading historians
• Opportunities for students to participate in national history competitions including the Civil War Essay Contest and the Dear George Washington Contest