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annual r epo rt 2008 Our Mission Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History promotes the study and love of American history. The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general public. It helps create history-centered schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars and enrichment programs for educators, produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, sponsors lectures by eminent historians, and administers a History Teacher of the Year Award in every state through its partnership with Preserve America. The Institute also sponsors awards including the Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and George Washington Book Prizes, and offers fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The Institute maintains two websites, www.gilderlehrman.org and the quarterly online journal www.historynow.org . The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Advisory Board Co-Chairmen President Executive Director Richard Gilder James G. Basker Lesley S. Herrmann Lewis E. Lehrman Joyce O. Appleby, Professor of History Emerita, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University University of California, Los Angeles Professor and Director, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Edward L. Ayers, President, University of Richmond African and African American Research, Harvard University William F. Baker, CEO Emeritus, Educational S. Parker Gilbert, Chairman Emeritus, Morgan Stanley Group Broadcasting Corporation Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce Professor Thomas H. Bender, University Professor of of the Civil War Era, Gettysburg College the Humanities, New York University Roger Hertog, Vice Chairman Emeritus, AllianceBernstein Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History, James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor Emeritus Baruch College and The Graduate Center, of American Studies and History, City University of New York George Washington University Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor, Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor University of Maryland in History of the Social Sciences, Columbia University Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman and Founder, Classroom Inc. Daniel P. Jordan, President Emeritus, Victoria Bjorklund, Partner, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP Thomas Jefferson Foundation David W. Blight, Class of ’ 54 Professor of David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan American History, Yale University, and Professor of American History, Stanford University Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Roger G. Kennedy, Director Emeritus, Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition National Park Service Gabor S. Boritt, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor Roger Kimball, Co-Editor and Co-Publisher, of Civil War Studies, Gettysburg College, The New Criterion and Director, Civil War Institute Thomas LeBien, Publisher, Hill & Wang Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, The National Review Richard C. Levin, President, Yale University Christopher Leslie Brown, Professor of History, Peter Maslowski, Professor of History, Columbia University University of Nebraska-Lincoln Kenneth L. Burns, Filmmaker James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis ’86 Ric Burns, Filmmaker Professor of American History, Emeritus, Andrew Carroll, Founder and Director, The Legacy Project Princeton University David Brion Davis, Sterling Professor of History Steven Mintz, Director, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Emeritus, Yale University, and Director Teaching Center, Columbia University Emeritus, Gilder Lehrman Center for the John L. Nau III, Chairman, Advisory Council Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition on Historic Preservation Andrew Delbanco, Julian Clarence Levi Professor Chair Russell P. Pennoyer, Partner, Benedetto Gartland in the Humanities, Columbia University & Company Richard Ekman, President, Council of Independent Colleges Clement A . Price, Director, Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, Joseph J. Ellis, Ford Foundation Professor of History, and the Modern Experience, Rutgers University Mount Holyoke College Diane Ravitch, Research Faculty, New York University Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University Elihu Rose, Vice Chairman, Rose Associates Inc. and David Hackett Fischer, University Professor and Adjunct Professor of Military History, Columbia University Warren Professor of History, Brandeis University Michael Serber, Former Principal, Academy of Seymour Fliegel, President and Gilder Senior Fellow, Center American Studies for Educational Innovation-Public Education Association Richard White, Margaret Byrne Professor of American Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Stanford University History, Columbia University Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Ellen V. Futter, President, American Museum Professor, Brown University of Natural History 1 gild er le hrman institute of american history Dear Friends and Colleagues, # We are pleased to share with you some of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History’s high points in 2008: • A gold medal award from U.S. News & World Report to the GLI-sponsored High School of American Studies in New York City, naming it the 29th best high school in the United States (out of 21,000 public high schools). • Silver medal awards from U.S. News & World Report to the GLI-sponsored Academy of American Studies and Frederick Douglass Academy, naming them as two of the top 500 high schools in America. • Twenty-five new Teaching American History grants from the US Department of Education, with more than 1,500 teachers participating in twenty states, bringing the total number of ongoing grants to sixty-three. • A record number of teacher seminars in 2008—thirty-three, including one, The American Judiciary , led by Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor—serving nearly 1,000 teachers from across the country. • The 2008 Award for Academic Excellence from the Council of Independent Colleges, recognizing GLI’s “exemplary contributions to higher education.” • Publication of American History: Elementary School Edition , the latest in the Institute’s “History in a Box” series for teachers. • A National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times , a traveling exhibition that will visit forty sites in 2008-2010. • Twenty new historians’ podcasts launched on the GLI website. • Five new Saturday Academies, including two in New Orleans, bringing our total to twenty-one Saturday Academies in nine cities. Sincerely, James G. Basker Lesley S. Herrmann President Executive Director 2 gild er le hrman institute of american history Table of Contents 4 Teacher Seminars # 8 History School Program 14 Teaching American History Grants 18 History Teacher of the Year Award 21 Prizes 24 Gilder Lehrman History Scholars Program 27 Scholarly Fellowships 30 Exhibitions and Public Programs 36 Websites 40 Publications and Resources 43 Gilder Lehrman Collection 45 Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University 50 Finance and Development 56 Partners 58 Appendix: Schools and National Parks Represented at Institute Seminars in 2008 63 Staff 3 gild er le hrman institute of american history Teacher Seminars # University of Richmond President Edward Ayers and teacher Valerie Gilson of Brooklyn, New York, at the Gilder Lehrman seminar The South in American History at the University of Richmond, Virginia. Educators from fifty states, the District of Columbia, and nineteen foreign countries have participated in more than 200 Gilder Lehrman seminars since 1994. In 2008, the Gilder Lehrman Institute held thirty-three seminars for nearly 1,000 educators. Participants included elementary, middle, and high school teachers, community college and small college professors, and educators from museums and National Park Service sites. (* indicates new seminar in 2008) For Middle and High School Teachers G David Armitage The International Impact of the Declaration of Independence Monticello and the University of Virginia G Edward L. Ayers *The South in American History University of Richmond G Anthony Badger The Civil Rights Movement Cambridge University G Thomas Bender The Civil War in Global Context New York University 4 gild er le hrman institute of american history G Ira Berlin North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective University of Maryland # G David Blight and James O. and Lois E. Horton Passages to Freedom: Abolition and the Underground Railroad Yale University G Gabor Boritt and Matthew Pinsker Lincoln Gettysburg College G Alan Brinkley and Michael Flamm America Between the Wars Columbia University G Christopher Brown *British and American Antislavery in the Age of Revolutions Columbia University G Richard Carwardine The Age of Lincoln Oxford University G Nancy Cott *Twentieth-Century Women’s Rights Movements Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University G John Demos Everyday Life in Early America Yale University G Gary Gallagher The American Civil War: Origins and Consequences, Battlefields and Homefront University of Virginia G Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Evelyn Higginbotham *African American Lives Harvard University G Kenneth Jackson and Karen Markoe New York in the Gilded Age Columbia University G Michael Kazin and Michael Flamm *The Sixties in Historical Perspective Georgetown University G David Kennedy and Richard White The Great Depression, World War II, and the American West Stanford University G Patricia Limerick Visions of the American Environment University of Colorado, Boulder G Steven Mintz Teaching Digital History New York Public Library 5
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