For Elementary and
Middle School Teachers
June 28-July 3
The American Revolution
New York University
Andrew Robertson
For more information, click
here.
July 5-July 9
Creating
A Nation: America in the Eighteenth Century
National Constitution Center
Carol Berkin and Maureen Festi
For more information, click
here.
August 2-August 8
From the Founding of a Nation
to the Crisis of the Union
University of Texas, Austin
Carol Berkin and Fritz Fischer
For more information, click
here.
For Middle and High School Teachers
June 21-June 27
The American Civil War: Origins
and Consequences,
Battlefields and Homefront
University of Virginia
Gary Gallagher
For more information, click
here.
Everyday Life in Early America
(high school teachers only)
Yale University
John Demos
For more information, click
here.
The Great
Depression and World War II
(high school teachers only)
Stanford University
David Kennedy
For more information, click
here.
NEW
The Progressive Era in Global Context
(high school teachers only)
New York University
Thomas Bender
For more information, click
here.
The Sixties in Historical Perspective
Georgetown University
Michael Kazin and Michael Flamm
For more information, click
here.
June 28-July 3
The Era of
George Washington
Brown University
Gordon Wood
For more information, click
here.
Slavery in the Age of Revolutions
Columbia University
Christopher L. Brown
For more information, click
here.
June 29-July
2
The South in American History
University of Richmond
Edward L. Ayers
For more information, click
here.
July 3-July 5
NEW
The Global Lincoln
Oxford University, U.K.
For more information, click
here.
July 5-July 11
NEW
The American Revolution
(high school teachers only)
University of California, Los Angeles
Gary Nash
For more information, click
here.
The Great Plains: America's Crossroads
University of Colorado, Boulder
Elliott West
For more information, click
here.
NEW
Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship
Yale University
Jonathan Holloway
For more information,
click
here.
Lincoln
Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College
Gabor Boritt and Matthew Pinsker
For more information, click
here.
NEW
Remaking America: Nation and Citizen in the Civil
War Era
University of Pennsylvania
Stephanie McCurry
For more information, click
here.
Visions of the American Environment
University of Colorado, Boulder
Patricia Limerick
For more information, click
here.
July 7-July 12
The
Global Cold War
Cambridge University, U.K.
Odd Arne Westad
For more information, click
here.
July 12-July 18
The Age of Lincoln
Oxford University, U.K.
Richard Carwardine
For more information, click
here.
NEW
Depression and Recovery: The Roosevelt Era
Columbia University
Alan Brinkley and Michael Flamm
For more information, click
here.
NEW
America's Moral Crisis: Politics and Culture in the
1850s
Columbia University
Andrew Delbanco
For more information, click
here.
Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic
World, 1500-1800
Johns Hopkins University
Philip Morgan
For more information, click
here.
North American Slavery in Comparative
Perspective
University of Maryland
Ira Berlin
For more information, click
here.
Twentieth Century Women's Rights
Movements
Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced
Study,
Harvard University
Nancy Cott
For more information, click
here.
July 19-July 25
NEW
Madison and the Constitution
James Madison's Montpelier
Jack Rakove
For more information, click
here.
New York in the Gilded Age
Columbia University
Kenneth Jackson and Karen Markoe
For more information, click
here.
Passages to Freedom: Abolition
and the Underground Railroad
Yale University
James O. Horton and Lois E. Horton
For more information, click
here.
Reconstruction
Columbia University
Eric Foner
For more information, click
here.
NEW
The Role of the Supreme Court in U.S. History
Stanford University
Larry Kramer
For more information, click
here.
July 26-August
1
NEW
Abraham Lincoln and His World
New York City, NY
Allen C. Guelzo
For more information, click
here.
NEW The Age of Jefferson
University of Virginia
Peter Onuf and Frank Cogliano
For more information, click
here.
The Civil Rights Movement
Cambridge University, U.K.
Anthony Badger
For more information, click
here.
Teaching Digital History
New York University
Steven Mintz
For more information, click
here.
NEW
The U.S. and the Cold War
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Melvyn P. Leffler and Christian Ostermann
For more information, click
here.
NEW
U.S.-China Relations
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Chen Jian and Christian Ostermann
For more information, click
here.
July 31-August 10
NEW
The Middle Passage: A Shared History of the Transatlantic
Slave Trade
(high school teachers only)
Kokrobitey Institute, Kokrobitey, Ghana
James Walvin and Stephanie Smallwood
For more information, click
here.
August 2-August 7
The International Impact of the
Declaration of Independence
Monticello and the University of Virginia
David Armitage
For more information, click
here.
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he Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars are designed to strengthen
participants' commitment to high quality history teaching.
Public, parochial, independent school teachers, and National
Park Service rangers are eligible. These weeklong seminars
provide intellectual stimulation and a collaborative context
for developing practical resources and strategies to take
back to the classroom. 
