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Teachers, students, administrators, scholars, history buffs! We would love to hear your story! In honor of the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s 25th Anniversary , we are gathering as many GLI tales as we can and then sharing them on...

Today, the many ways Americans can easily voice our political opinions can make it hard to imagine a time when there were no such instantaneous options. Signing an online petition, posting an article to Facebook, or sharing a hashtag...

In 2018 Professor Daina Ramey Berry was one of four finalists for the Frederick Douglass Book Prize for The Price for Their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation (Beacon Press). She...

Professor Robert Bonner, Professor of History, Department Chair, and Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, offers unique perspectives on the Civil War—the perspectives of men and women who participated in the...

June 16–22 Thirty-four K–12 teachers attended New Orleans and the History of the American South at the Historic New Orleans Collection led by Pamela Tyler, Associate Professor of History (retired), University of Southern Mississippi,...

Held at colleges and historic sites across the US and abroad, Gilder Lehrman Teacher Seminars offer teachers daily programs with leading historians, visits to local historic sites, and hands-on work with primary sources. Teachers...

In our twenty-ninth year offering Teacher Seminars , the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is very pleased, once again, to welcome the sponsorship of the American Jewish Historical Society (AJHS) for Making Modern America:...

Presidents’ Day, celebrated on the third Monday in February, recognizes the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, ten days apart from each other. We offer many classroom and home study resources for learning more, not...

We celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month by offering these GLI resources. Inside the Vault Videos Inside the Vault: Highlights from the Gilder Lehrman Collection is a free monthly online program that highlights...

In July 2022, teachers from across the United States learned, networked, and grew together as they worked closely with renowned scholars in various fields of American history at the Gilder Lehrman Teacher Symposium at Gettysburg...

The Gilder Lehrman Institute is pleased to return to Gettysburg College for our second annual Teacher Symposium from July 16 to July 19. We highlight here one of the seven exciting courses offered: American Indian History since 1890...

In honor of Black History Month, the Gilder Lehrman Institute is pleased to offer our Affiliate School teachers a free copy of Slavery and Abolition in the Founding Era: Black and White Voices . This book brings together long...

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced today that Jon Meacham , author of And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle (Random House), and Jonathan W. White , author of A House Built by Slaves:...