Saturday Academies
provide free elective courses for high school and middle
school students on Saturday mornings. For more information,
contact Anthony Napoli at the Gilder Lehrman Institute
at napoli@gilderlehrman.org.
Abraham Lincoln High School Saturday
Academy
(Brooklyn, New York)
Irina Zatulovskaya, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment:
84 students.
Courses Offered: SAT Prep; Brooklyn
Walking Tour; Night at the Museum; Military History;
American History through Film; American History through
Fashion.
Contact Number: 718-372-5474
Academy of American Studies Saturday
Academy
(Queens, New York)
Nina Cohen & Mark Solkoff, Co-Directors. Founded
2004. Enrollment: 99 students.
Courses Offered: A Taste of New York;
Photoshop and US History; PSAT Prep; Introduction to
Law and Criminology; Museum Studies; Understanding Environmental
Studies Through Film; The Gilder Lehrman Research Center.
Contact Number: 718-361-8786
Algiers Charter Schools Association
(New Orleans, LA)
Kevin Guitterrez, Director. Founded 2007.
Courses Offered: American History Through
Film; American History: NEH’s Picturing America
Collection; American History Through Cartoons and Comics;
American History: An Amazing Race.
All Hallows Saturday Academy
(Bronx, New York)
John Burke, Director. Founded 2002. Enrollment: 198
students.
Courses Offered: Pre-American History
(1492-1763); The Holocaust; The American Dream; 20th
Century Historical Scientific Discoveries; U.S.—Latin
American Relations; American Culture; The Making of
Slavery; AP American History.
Contact Number: 718-293-4545
Bishop Kearney High School Saturday Academy
(Brooklyn, NY)
Elaine Spataro, Director. Founded 2008. Enrollment:
80 Students
Courses Offered: Decades of Change:
The 1920s & 1960s; Noteworthy American Women; American
Scientists; Music in America; Art in America.
Contact Number: 718-236-6363, x231
Brooklyn Historical Society
(Brooklyn, New York)
Andrea Del Valle, Director. Founded 2007.
Courses
Offered: Brooklyn History through the Arts; SAT
Prep; AP US History Review.
Contact Number:
718-222-4111
Gertz-Ressler
High School (Los Angeles, California)
Nancy Weems, Director. Founded 2006.
Courses Offered: Unbreaking Bones- Medical Advances
in Military Conflicts; What is a Chicano?; The Truth Project-
Shaping our Eclectic Culture; Fossil Fuels and the US
Economy; Women in US History through Photography; Infamous
and Controversial US Elections; The Cold War; AP US History
Review; The Seventies; Getting Ready for the SAT II –
US History.
Contact Number: 213-745-8141
Glen Este High School Saturday
Academy (Cincinnati, Ohio)
Kenneth Dicks, Director. Founded 2006. Enrollment: 100
students.
Courses Offered: Sink or Swim: Will We
Survive the Current U.S. Economic Crisis?; Hollywood,
the Media, and American History and Politics; Getting
Ready for the ACT/SAT; Characters of the American Civil
War; The History and Evolution of American Currency; College
Preparedness; Speak Up, Speak Out; Teaching with Historic
Places.
Contact
Number: 513-947-7647
Heights
High School (Wichita, Kansas)
Christopher Kemp, Director. Founded 2006. Enrollment:
110 students.
Courses Offered: 1950-1970
Civil Rights in Kansas; Music in American History; War
in the 20th Century; AP U.S. History Prep; Racial Images
& Their Influences on Culture.
Contact Number: 316–973-1400
Monsignor Farrell High School
Saturday Academy
(Staten Island, New York)
Edward Manganel, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 200
students.
Courses Offered: America’s Greatest
Battles; First Ladies of the United States; Films in American
History: Rock ‘N Roll Music: 1950 to 1980; New York:
The Historical Setting for Great Literature; U.S. Engineering:
Triumphs and Disasters; The History of Organized Crime
in America; The First Amendment and the Media; Entrepreneurs
and Inventors.
Contact Number:
718-987-2900
Museum of the
City of New York (New York, New York)
Joanna Steinberg , Director. Founded 2006. Enrollment:
56 students.
Courses Offered: The Past Is Present:
American History on Stage; “A Change Is Gonna Come:”
Social Change in American History; Keeping It Green: The
Evolution of Park Design in the United States and Its
Urban Centers; Kaplan SAT Skills
Contact
Number: 917-492-3401
New Dorp High School Saturday Academy
(Staten Island, New York)
Dina Zoleo, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 225 students.
Courses Offered: The United States and
the World Since 1900; Remembering World War II; America
transformed through Art; Make Your Argument: Succeeding
in Moot Court; American Culinary Arts; SAT Prep.
Contact Number: 718-667-8686
New-York Historical Society Saturday
Academy
(Manhattan, New York)
Betsy Gibbons, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 170
students.
Courses Offered: Six Great American
Inventions; The American Hero: From Abraham Lincoln
to Superman; Art and Technology, 1750-Now; America’s
Contested Elections; Regents Review: United States History
and Government; SAT Preparation.
Contact Number: 212-485-9276
Notre Dame Saturday Academy
(Manhattan, New York)
Maryanne Mulvihill, Director. Founded 1997. Enrollment:
285 students.
Courses Offered: Conquer the SAT; The
Palestinians, the Israelis, and the United States; The
Vietnam Era (1960-1975); Railroads in America; What
is Wall Street?; The Great Depression; The Presidency
and New York City; American Adventures in Space.
Contact Number: 212-620-5575
Rutgers University (Newark,
New Jersey)
Elizabeth Aaron, Director. Founded 2006. Enrollment:
98 students.
Courses Offered: Post-“Riot”
Newark; Rights! Liberty! Action! Exercising Your Civil
Rights in the Modern Age; Sports and the American Experience;
Picturing America: Seeing Our Past Through Art; United
States History Advanced Placement Review Course.
Contact Number: 973-353-1871
Salesian High School Saturday Academy
(New Rochelle, New York)
John Flaherty & Paul Zaccagnino, Co-Directors. Founded
2005. Enrollment: 351 students.
Courses Offered:Disney and the American
Dream; One Nation Under God; Colonial Papermaking; The
Gettysburg Campaign in the Civil War; Looking at American
History Through Art; Book ‘Em . . . Law Enforcement;
Political Cartoons; Important Women in American History;
D-Day—Codename: Operation Overlord; The 54th Massachusetts
Regiment; President John Fitzgerald Kennedy; Generals
and Fighting Men of the Civil War; Conspiracies and
Unsolved Mysteries of American History; The Congressional
Medal of Honor—A Study of American Heroes.
Contact Number: 914-632-0248
Santa Fe Public Schools Saturday
Academy
(Santa Fe, New Mexico)
John Morrison, Director. Founded 2007.
Courses Offered: The Cold War; The
Art of Exclusion: Minorities and the Media; The Road
to 9/11; Stitch a Signal for Freedom: The Quilts of
the Underground; US History Through Film; World War
II.
Contact Number: 505-467-2400
School Without Walls Saturday Academy
(Washington, DC)
Sylvia Isaac and Jenine Pokorak, Co-Directors. Founded
2008
Courses Offered: American Literature
and the Lost Generation; The American Revolution; Parallel
Paths to Black Freedom; He Got Game: A Mini Survey of
Spike Lee Films; The Second World War; Introduction
to Environmental Justice; History and Public Policy;
Art and American History; SAT Preparation.
Contact Number: 202-724-4889
Spanish River Saturday Academy
(Palm Beach County, Florida)
Mara Goron, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 72 students.
Courses Offered: ACT/SAT Preparation;
Assassinations; Civil Rights in Twentieth Century; Economic
Unpredictability in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth
Century and the Presidents Who Responded (1977-2001);
Life in the White House; The History of Film; What Does
He Mean? But What Does He Really Mean?; World War II
(1939-1945).
Contact Number: 561-241-2026
Sprayberry High School (Marietta,
GA)
Erin Barnett, Principal.
Courses Offered: Kaplan SAT Prep; World History: Holocaust
& French Revolution; Cobb Landmarks; Aviation II
SPACE; U.S. History in Depth; Genocide.
Contact: http://www.cobbk12.org/sprayberry/
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