| Educational Resources
Increase teacher knowledge of core content and engage
students in the study of American history with our selection
of nearly 100 visual, print and digital resources. All
materials are document-based, and can be adapted for
use with all K-12 grade levels.
Partners may choose to include classroom/library sets
in their TAH Grants, or provide materials to each of
their participating teachers. We will work with you
to select the right materials for each year of your
grant.
VISUAL RESOURCES
Select from our exceptional panel exhibitions
featuring rare documents, images and interpretive texts
to explore critical topics, including The Founding
Era and The Promise of Freedom and Looking
at Lincoln: Political Cartoons from the Civil War Era.
Bring history to life in your classrooms or libraries
with our history calendars and our series of gorgeous
American history posters depicting important events
and people from the early days of the republic through
the twentieth century.
PRINT RESOURCES
Use our signature History in a Box
series of classroom-ready teaching tools to educate
students about subjects ranging from The Founding Era
to The American West. Select from a wide range of booklets
with accompanying CD-ROMs featuring annotated historic
documents, including Why Documents Matter: American
Originals and the Historical Imagination, Documents
to Commemorate National Constitution Day, I
Take Up My Pen: Letters from the War, and Slavery
in the Founding Era.
DIGITAL RESOURCES
Support your teachers with our Teaching
Digital History DVD tutorial, and bring leading
historians such as James McPherson and Henry Louis Gates,
Jr. to your classrooms through our Historians on
Record DVD series. Connect your students to history
through our signature CD-ROM collections, including
Mr. Lincoln’s War: Selected Letters, Photographs,
& Songs, and An American Sampler: Poems
and Songs that Celebrate our Nation’s Past.
Supplement your teaching materials with the Gilder
Lehrman Institute website (www.gilderlehrman.org),
featuring educational modules on more than twenty major
topics in U.S. history as well as annotated primary
documents with transcriptions, lessons, maps, images,
and more.
2010 Application Deadline:
The 2010 TAH competition has begun! Applications are
due to the DOE on March 22, 2010. Please
visit the DOE website for additional information and
to access the RFP:
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/teachinghistory/applicant.html
For further information, please contact:
Victoria Lain, Education Coordinator
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
19 West 44th Street, Suite 500
New York, NY 10036
646-366-9666
Fax: 646-366-9669
lain@gilderlehrman.org
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