# # # # the Gilder Lehrman institute of american history # # # # the Gilder Lehrman institute of american history 19 west 44th street, suite 500 new york, ny 10036 646.366.9666 www.gilderlehrman.org # # annual report 2004 annual report 2004 the mission Founded in 1994, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI) promotes the study and love of American history. Increasingly national and international in scope, the Institute’s initiatives target audiences ranging from students to scholars to the general public. The Institute creates history-centered schools and academic research centers, organizes seminars and enrichment programs for educators, produces print and electronic publications and traveling exhibitions, and sponsors lectures by eminent historians. GLI also sponsors awards, including the Lincoln Prize and Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and offers fellowships for scholars to work in the Gilder Lehrman Collection and other archives. The Institute owns historical documents and makes them available to museums, libraries, researchers, and publications. The Institute maintains two websites, www.gilderlehrman.org and the quarterly online journal www.historynow.org, which offer educational resources for teachers, students, historians, and the public. advisory board Co-Chairmen President Executive Director Richard Gilder James G. Basker Lesley S. Herrmann Lewis E. Lehrman Joyce O. Appleby, Professor of History Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B. Du Bois Emerita, University of California, Los Angeles Professor of the Humanities, Edward L. Ayers, Dean of the College and Harvard University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and S. Parker Gilbert, Chairman Emeritus, dear friends, Hugh P. Kelly Professor of History, Morgan Stanley Group University of Virginia Allen C. Guelzo, Henry R. Luce With this annual report, we mark the eleventh year William F. Baker, President, Channel Professor of the Civil War Era Thirteen/WNET and Professor of History, of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. Thomas H. Bender, University Professor of Gettysburg College the Humanities, New York University Roger Hertog, Vice Chairman, Alliance One decade ago, we aimed to be among the leaders of a Carol Berkin, Professor of History, Capital Management national effort to restore the teaching, study, and writing Baruch College and City University of James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker New York Graduate Center Professor of American Studies and History, of American history to a preeminent position in the Ira Berlin, Distinguished University Professor, George Washington University University of Maryland Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun education of our countrymen. Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman, Classroom, Inc. Professor of History, Columbia University David W. Blight, Class of ’54 Professor Daniel P. Jordan, President, of American History, Yale University Thomas Jefferson Foundation We are grateful to the many institutions which have and Director, Gilder Lehrman Center David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan worked with us to this end. We thank the thousands for the Study of Slavery, Professor of History, Stanford University Resistance, and Abolition at Roger G. Kennedy, Director Emeritus, of American leaders and citizens who have helped us. Yale University National Park Service Gabor S. Boritt, Robert C. Fluhrer Roger Kimball, Managing Editor, Professor of Civil War Studies, The New Criterion To teach the story of our distinguished heritage to a Gettysburg College and Richard C. Levin, President, Yale University great nation, proud of its common culture, continues Director, Civil War Institute James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, Professor of American History, to inspire us. We shall stand fast in this work, for it National Review Princeton University Kenneth L. Burns, Filmmaker Steven Mintz, John and Rebecca Moores is one of the greatest stories ever told. Ric Burns, Filmmaker Professor of History, University of Houston Andrew Carroll, The American Poetry John L. Nau III, Chairman, Advisory and Literacy Project Council of Historic Preservation David B. Davis, Sterling Professor of Russell P. Pennoyer, Partner, Bendetto History Emeritus, Yale University Gartland & Company Richard Ekman, President, Council of Diane Ravitch, Senior Research Scholar and Richard Gilder Lewis E. Lehrman Independent Colleges Adjunct Professor, New York University Co-Chairman Co-Chairman Joseph J. Ellis, Professor of History, Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, Director of Mount Holyoke College Garden History and Landscape Studies, Drew Gilpin Faust, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for Bard Graduate Center Advanced Study, Harvard University Elihu Rose, Vice Chairman, Rose Associates Inc. Seymour Fliegel, President, Center for and Adjunct Professor of Military History, Educational Innovation/Public Columbia University Education Association Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Albert Schweitzer Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, History, Columbia University City University of New York Graduate Center Ellen V. Futter, President, Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University American Museum of Natural History Professor, Brown University 2 3 gilder lehrman institute annual report dear friends and colleagues, We are pleased to share with you some of the Institute’s high points in 2004: G GLI partnered with Preserve America (a White House initiative) to establish a national History Teacher of the Year Award. The award honors the outstanding history teacher in each of the fifty states, and the national winner is chosen from that group (p. 22). contents G The Gilder Lehrman Collection, on deposit at the New-York Historical Society, reopened its doors to researchers (p. 38). 6 Seminars G The Institute and the New-York Historical Society collaborated on Alexander Hamilton: 10 History Schools and Programs The Man Who Made Modern America, the most extensive Hamilton exhibition ever assembled (p. 14). 14 Special Project: Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America G The Institute launched History Now (www.historynow.org), a new quarterly online 18 Exhibitions and Public Programs journal for teachers, students, and general readers (p. 34). 21 Prizes and Awards G On Veterans Day the Institute unveiled Battle Lines: Letters from America’s Wars, our first online exhibition. It was co-sponsored with the Legacy Project, headed by 25 Scholarly Fellowships Andrew Carroll (p. 32). 28 Undergraduate History Scholars Program G In partnership with several school districts, the Institute was awarded six new federal Teaching American History Grants, bringing our total to sixteen. The new partners 31 Website include school districts in Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, New York, and Wisconsin (p. 43). 33 Publications (Print and Electronic) G The first two Junior Historians’ Forums, featuring Allen C. Guelzo and Edward L. Ayers, drew 600 students from eight Gilder Lehrman history schools (p. 19). 36 Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University G The Organization of American Historians will award its first Friends of History Prize to GLI in March 2005. 38 Gilder Lehrman Collection Sincerely, 41 Grants 44 Partners James G. Basker Lesley S. Herrmann 47 Appendix A: Schools and National Parks Participating in GLI Seminars President Executive Director 52 Appendix B: Traveling Exhibition Sites 53 Appendix C: History Teachers of the Year 54 Staff 4 5 gilder lehrman institute annual report For High School and Middle School Teachers Eminent historians led weeklong intensive seminars on topics in American history. G The Great Depression, World War II, and the American West, at Stanford University seminars Leaders: David M. Kennedy and Richard White G Interpreting the Constitution, at Stanford University Leader: Jack Rakove G The Civil War in Global Context, at New York University Leader: Thomas Bender G Visions of the American Environment, at the University of Colorado, Boulder Leaders: James Engell, Patricia Limerick, and Glenn Adelson # G The Great Plains: America’s Crossroads, at the University of Colorado, Boulder Leader: Elliott West G Lincoln, at Gettysburg College Leader: Gabor S. Boritt G The American Civil War: Origins and Consequences, Battlefields and Homefront, at the University of Virginia Leaders: Edward L. Ayers and Gary Gallagher G Passages to Freedom: Abolition and the Underground Railroad, at Yale University Leaders: David W. Blight, James O. Horton, and Lois E. Horton G North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective, at the University of Maryland Leader: Ira Berlin G Immigration in America, 1840-1940, at Columbia University Leaders: Kenneth T. Jackson and Karen Markoe G The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson, at Monticello and the University of Virginia Leader: Dianne Swann-Wright G Reconstruction, at Columbia University Leader: Eric Foner G America Between the Wars, at Columbia University Leaders: Alan Brinkley and Michael Flamm G Religious Movements in America, at Occidental College and the Huntington Library Leader: Daniel Howe G The Era of George Washington, at Brown University Over the past ten years, more than 4,000 teachers, professors, and Leader: Gordon S. Wood G The Cold War, at Cambridge University, UK National Park Service public historians have participated in GLI Leader: Odd Arne Westad seminars. In 2004 the Institute conducted 26 seminars, with more G The Civil Rights Movement, at Cambridge University, UK Leader: Anthony Badger than 750 participants from 48 states and six foreign countries.