2019 Teacher Seminar Registration Now Open

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History offers rigorous Teacher Seminars for K–12 educators. Held at colleges and historic sites across the US and abroad, the weeklong workshops include daily programs with leading American historians, visits to local historic sites, and hands-on work with primary sources.

These highly competitive seminars are open exclusively to participants in the Institute’s free Affiliate School Program. Check here to see if your school is in the Affiliate School Program. If it is not, register now to ensure that you will be eligible to apply for the Teacher Seminars. We welcome applications from previous Teacher Seminar attendees as well as new participants.

The 2019 Courses, Institutions, and Master Teachers are:

Thomas Jefferson and the Enlightenment
University of Edinburgh
Frank Cogliano

Everyday Life in Colonial America
Yale University
John Demos

New Orleans and the History of the American South
Historic New Orleans Collection in partnership with the Historic New Orleans Collection
Pamela Tyler

The Civil War in American Memory (College Faculty Only)
Yale University in partnership with the Council of Independent Colleges
David W. Blight

Lincoln Speaks: Words That Transformed a Nation
Lincoln Presidential Library in partnership with the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation
Michael Burlingame

Presidents at War: McKinley to Obama
Southern Methodist University in partnership with the Center for Presidential History
Jeffrey Engel

The American Civil War: Origins and Consequences
University of Virginia
Gary W. Gallagher

America in the Age of Discovery: 1492 to 1625
University of Southern California in partnership with the University of Southern California
Peter Mancall & Robert C. Ritchie

The Making of America: From the Founding Era through the Civil War (K–8 Teachers Only)
George Washington University
Denver Brunsman

American Protest Literature
Boston University
John Stauffer

Gettysburg: History and Memory
Gettysburg College
Allen C. Guelzo

9/11 and American Memory
National September 11 Memorial and Museum in partnership with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum
Edward T. Linenthal

The Civil Rights Movement
Rhodes College in partnership with the National Civil Rights Museum and Rhodes College
Charles McKinney

Immigrants in American History
Pace University
Mae Ngai

The American Revolution
Boston University
Andrew W. Robertson

World War I and Its Aftermath
National World War I Museum and Memorial in partnership with the National World War I Museum and Memorial
Jay Winter

The Vietnam War
First Division Museum in partnership with the First Division Museum at Catigny Park
Robert K. Brigham

The Franklin Roosevelt Era
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in partnership with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
Eric Rauchway

American Capitalism
Pace University
David B. Sicilia

The California Gold Rush
University of California, Davis
Elliott West

The Age of Lincoln
Oxford University
Richard Carwardine

The Colonial Era
Princeton University
John Fea

The United States and Korea in the Twentieth Century
University of Washington in partnership with World History Digital Education Foundation
Mitchell B. Lerner

Westward Expansion
University of Colorado, Boulder
Patricia Nelson Limerick

The Story of World War II
National World War II Museum in partnership with the National World War II Museum
Donald L. Miller

The Kennedy Presidency
Boston University
Barbara A. Perry

The Global Cold War
USS Midway Museum in partnership with the USS Midway Museum
Daniel Sargent

Slavery and Abolition
Pace University in partnership with the Lapidus Center for the Historical Analysis of Transatlantic Slavery
Manisha Sinha

Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Era
Pace University
Richard Brookhiser

Native Peoples, Settlers, and European Empires in North America, 1600–1840
The Library Company of Philadelphia with support provided by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Daniel K. Richter

The Gilded Age and Its Modern Parallels
Stanford University
Richard White