About page 2020 Winter Newsletter Dear Teachers, Supporters, and Friends of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, I greet you at the end of a very successful 2019, looking forward to more in 2020. We have reached more than 24,000 Affiliate Schools in all fifty states and in...
News Wall Street Journal Profile of National History Teacher of the Year and Other Press Coverage The Gilder Lehrman Institute received generous press attention during the last month of 2019. Here are some highlights: The Wall Street Journal offered a wide-ranging profile of Gilder Lehrman Institute National History Teacher of the...
About page 2020 New Year Newsletter - redirect Dear Teachers, Supporters, and Friends of the Gilder Lehrman Institute, I greet you at the end of a very successful 2019, looking forward to more in 2020. We have reached more than 24,000 Affiliate Schools in all fifty states and in...
News 50 States, 1 Nation Elementary School Essay Contest Launched A New Writing Contest for Elementary School Students After eight exciting years of the Dear George Washington Essay Contest , which has yielded creative and thoughtful responses from elementary school students across the country, the...
Spotlight on: Primary Source Reporting on the Spanish Influenza, 1918 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 These newspaper articles illustrate the impact on American society of Spanish Influenza (H1N1), which first appeared in the United States in March 1918. [1] There were periodic, minor outbreaks for six months, but in September a...
News Re-envision Women's History with Professors Carol Berkin and Catherine Clinton Professors Carol Berkin and Catherine Clinton have revolutionized the field of American women’s history in their academic careers. Berkin struggled against a generation that believed incorrectly that there were no primary sources to...