The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History



The Second Inauguration of President Lincoln, March 4, 1865. (Detail, GLC 05111.01.0006)




Hand-colored drawing from sketchbook by Henry Berckhoff (a private in the 8th New York regiment, Union Army), ca. 1861-63. (Detail, GLC 06106)





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













Detail from Harper's Weekly. Abraham Lincoln, the Inaugural Procession, March 16, 1861. (GLC 00623)