The Gilder Lehrman Institute is proud to partner with the producers of Hamilton on the Hamilton Education Program. Title I–eligible high schools are being invited to integrate Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Era into classroom studies and then see the musical. The Hamilton Education Program is part of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s broader mission to improve the teaching and learning of American history. Thanks to the generous support of The Rockefeller Foundation, which helped launch the initial program and fund its national expansion, and many national and local donors, high school students in Title I schools will each pay just a “Hamilton” ($10) to see the performance.
The Hamilton Education Program is an in-person program for Title I–eligible high schools. The curriculum and resources are available through our new EduHam Online program for free to 6th–12th grade teachers and families. Sign up here.
The Institute has more than twenty years of experience developing educational programming in American history. In addition, the Gilder Lehrman Collection is a unique archive of 85,000 primary source documents, including a love letter from Alexander Hamilton to his fiancée, Elizabeth Schuyler; a first edition of the Federalist; and the only known extant letter from Philip Hamilton to his father, Alexander.
To learn more about the program and to explore documents, essays, and videos relating to Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Era, visit the links below and go to “Alexander Hamilton in the American Imagination,” a special issue of our online journal History Now. For additional information about the program, please contact hamilton@gilderlehrman.org.
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The Gilder Lehrman Institute has an array of resources on Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Era in the History Resources section of the website, including essays, Spotlights on Primary Sources, videos, online exhibitions and timelines, and lesson plans.
In addition, you can sign up for a Self-Paced Course, or request a Traveling Exhibition on Alexander Hamilton.