For Educators

The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers a growing variety of resources to assist teachers and students. The Institute has pioneered new models of history schools and programs, with proven success in improving academic achievement. It offers professional development opportunities for educators, provides documents and exercises for classroom use, and encourages excellence in student writing with essay prizes.

K–12 Educator Programs

• Affiliate School Programs
• Teacher Seminars
• National History Teacher of the Year Award

Online Resources

• Online Exhibitions on important topics including the Freedom Riders of the Civil Rights Movement, and Battle Lines: Letters from America’s Wars up to the First Persian Gulf War.
• Historians’ Podcasts including small video clips on essential questions
• History by Era, an online resource organized chronologically with essays by leading historians, a timeline, primary source documents for classroom use, multimedia, lesson plans, activities, and more.
• Primary Sources from the Gilder Lehrman Collection
• Traveling Exhibitions for Schools and Libraries