Would you like to learn more about our 2025 Teacher Symposium?  Join us for an open house—live-streamed and open to all—on Tuesday, February 25 at 7 pm ET.

In celebration of Black History Month, the Gilder Lehrman Institute highlights resources for studying Black history in America through curated groupings of documents and accompanying materials.

We’re excited to announce a pilot program for high school students called History School Book Club.

This summer, the Gilder Lehrman Institute invites you to view Who Can Vote?: A Brief History of Voting Rights in the US as it tours the country.  From June 3 through June 28, this traveling exhibition—created as part of The Right to Vote: The Role of States and the US Constitution—can be seen at the following museums, libraries, and historic sites:

On May 17, 1954, the US Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, unanimously ruling that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The decision overturned the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson, which infamously permitted "separate but equal" facilities. Chief Justice Earl Warren responded directly to the 60-year-old case when he declared, "In the field of public education, the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."

It’s Teacher Appreciation Week!