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 2001 Board of Advisors Co-Chairmen Richard Gilder Lewis E. Lehrman President James G. Basker Executive Director Lesley S. Herrmann Advisory Board Dear Board Members and Friends, Joyce O. Appleby, Professor of History Emerita, James O. Horton, Benjamin Banneker Professor University of California Los Angeles of American Studies and History, George We present the Institute’s annual report for 2001, a year in which William F. Baker, President, Channel Thirteen/WNET Washington University Thomas H. Bender, University Professor of the Kenneth T. Jackson, Jacques Barzun Professor the study of American history took on a new importance. Our Humanities, New York University of History, Columbia University and President, activities continue to expand, and we look forward to significant Lewis W. Bernard, Chairman, Classroom Inc. New-York Historical Society David W. Blight, Class of 1959 Professor of History Daniel P. Jordan, President, Thomas Jefferson growth in 2002. and Black Studies, Amherst College Memorial Foundation Gabor S. Boritt, Robert C. Fluhrer Professor of David M. Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor Civil War Studies, Gettysburg College of History, Stanford University (co-chair, Advisory Board) Roger G. Kennedy, Director Emeritus, Richard Brookhiser, Senior Editor, National Review National Park Service James G. Basker Lesley S. Herrmann Kenneth L. Burns, Filmmaker Roger Kimball, Managing Editor, The New Criterion President Executive Director David B. Davis, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Richard C. Levin, President, Yale University Yale University (co-chair, Advisory Board) James M. McPherson, George Henry Davis Professor Richard Ekman, President, Council of of American History, Princeton University Independent Colleges Steven Mintz, John and Rebecca Moores Professor Joseph J. Ellis, Professor of History, Mount of History, University of Houston Holyoke College Russell P. Pennoyer, Partner, Bendetto Gartland Drew Gilpin Faust, Dean, Radcliffe Institute for & Company Advanced Study Diane Ravitch, Senior Research Scholar and Seymour Fliegel, President, Center for Educational Adjunct Professor, New York University Innovation/Public Education Association Elizabeth Barlow Rogers, President, Cityscape Institute Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, Elihu Rose, Vice Chairman, Rose Associates Inc. Columbia University and Adjunct Professor of Military History, Ellen V. Futter, President, American Museum of Columbia University Natural History Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Schweitzer Professor in the Henry Louis Gates, Jr., DuBois Professor of the Humanities Emeritus, City University of New York Humanities, Harvard University Gordon S. Wood, Alva O. Way University Professor, S. Parker Gilbert, Chairman Emeritus, Morgan Brown University Stanley Group Allen C. Guelzo, Grace F. Kea Professor of History, Eastern College Roger Hertog, Vice Chairman, Alliance Capital Management Highlights Contents Gilder Lehrman Institute Web Site 04 Seminars In 2001, more than a quarter million users and more than two million hits. Upgraded design by Channel Thirteen/WNET opening spring 2002. 07 History Schools and Programs Prizes and AwARDS New CD-ROM Based on FREE AT LAST Exhibition 12 Traveling exhibition now available on CD-ROM with supplementary documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. 16 Publications (Print and Electronic) Summer Seminars for Teachers 18 Gilder Lehrman Institute Web site 02 14 seminars, teachers from 31 states and two foreign countries. 03 20 Public Programs and Exhibitions COMMON-PLACE Gilder Lehrman Institute and American Antiquarian Society co-sponsor 26 Scholarly Fellowships award-winning online history journal. 30 COMMON-PLACE (new electronic journal) History Education Fund Newly established charitable entity to strengthen fundraising in support 32 The Gilder Lehrman Center for Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition of the Institute’s programs. at Yale University 34 Grants 36 Partners 37 Appendix 40 Staff Other Seminar Details for 2001 G Teachers from 432 schools participated representing 31 states. G Teachers from 143 schools in New York City (100 public, 34 parochial, and nine independent). G Public educators from 42 National Park sites. G A growing number of international educators including 14 teachers from abroad (1 Switzerland, 13 UK). Seminars 2001 The Public and Private George Washington, at Brown University Leader: Gordon S. Wood Thomas Jefferson and the Foundations of American Democracy, at Monticello and University of Virginia Leader: Daniel P. Jordan North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective, at University of Maryland Leader: Ira Berlin Passages to Freedom: Abolition and the Underground Railroad, at Amherst College Leaders: David W. Blight, James O. Horton, and Lois E. Horton Lincoln, at Gettysburg College Leader: Gabor S. Boritt Command and Leadership in the Civil War, at Princeton University 05 Seminars Leader: James M. McPherson New York in the Gilded Age, at Columbia University In 2001 the Institute offered 14 seminars, the largest number in its Leaders: Kenneth T. Jackson and Karen Markoe history. Each seminar focused on a major topic in American history and America Between the Wars, at Columbia University was led by an eminent historian at one of several institutions including Leader: Alan Brinkley Harvard, Brown, Stanford, Columbia, Cambridge, and Oxford. Last The Great Depression, World War II and the American West, at Stanford University Leaders: David M. Kennedy and Richard White year the applicant pool tripled, rising to more than 1500 applicants for 420 places (full details in the Appendix). The Civil Rights Movement: Context and Comparison, at Cambridge University Leader: Anthony J. Badger Looking at American History from Outside: The View from Britain, at Oxford University Leader: Daniel W. Howe Hollywood’s America: Film and American History, at Columbia University Leader: Steven Mintz For Elementary School Teachers Discovering Colonial America, at Lehman College, CUNY Leader: Andrew W. Robertson For National Park Service Educators Slavery and Antislavery, at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, Harpers Ferry, WV Leaders: David W. Blight and James O. Horton Special One-Day Seminar Abraham Lincoln the Great Emancipator, at The President Lincoln and Soldiers’ Home National Monument, Washington, D.C. Leader: James O. Horton On-Site Faculty Development Seminars New Teacher Concerns, at The Academy of American Studies, Queens, NY Leaders: Michael Serber, Howard Seretan, and Richard Birdie The American Presidency, at Forest Hills High School, Queens, NY Leaders: Michael Serber and Howard Seretan Effective Teaching Strategies, at The Academy of American Studies, Queens, NY Leaders: Michael Serber and Howard Seretan Teaching New York in the Gilded Age, at Mepham High School, Bellmore, NY Leaders: Richard Birdie and Howard Seretan New Seminars in Summer 2002 The Institute will continue to recruit teachers from schools and regions of the country not previously 06 represented. In summer 2002 we will offer 18 seminars, seven of them new. David Brion Davis will also 07 lead our first seminar for college teachers, in cooperation with the Council of Independent Colleges. For Teachers Women in the Civil War Era, 1848-1877, at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Leader: Drew Gilpin Faust History Schools and Programs Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877, at Columbia University Leader: Eric Foner The Institute helps found history high schools and history programs The Cold War, at Yale University within larger schools. Since 1995 we have established four history Leaders: John Lewis Gaddis and Odd Arne Westad high schools and 15 programs within schools, with another ten New York in the Twentieth Century: Transformation of the American Metropolis, at Columbia University schools and programs now in development. Leaders: Kenneth T. Jackson and Karen Markoe Rhetoric and American Democracy, at Harvard University Leader: James Engell For National Park Service Educators The Environment in Western History, at Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO Leader: Patricia Limerick For College Teachers (in partnership with The Council of Independent Colleges) The Slavery Debate: Problems in Slavery Studies Today, at Columbia University Leader: David Brion Davis History High Schools History Programs Within Schools Students at history high schools take at least one course every semester in American history In history programs, each student takes an extra course in American history and culture every year. for all four years. The history curriculum emphasizes primary source materials and is integrated The Institute provides history programs with supplementary resources including guest lectures, visits to with literature and the arts. The curriculum is supplemented and supported with special lectures, historic sites, primary source materials, and development seminars for participating faculty. There are visits to historic sites, and development seminars for teachers, all provided by the Institute. 12 history programs of which three were new in 2001 (marked below with an *). Academy of American Studies (Queens, NY) *Cardozo High School (Queens, NY) Ellen Sherman, Principal (succeeded Michael Serber, 1996-June 2001). Founded 1996. Leslie Strauss, Assistant Principal and