Gilder-Lehrman Summer Seminars for Teachers

If you are an elementary, middle-school, or secondary school history teacher let me call your attention to an incredible set of seminars offered this summer by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute for American History. What serious American history teacher would not want to take advantage of these seminars offered by some of the country’s leading historians? You can also get graduate credit! Go here. The deadline for applications is Feb. 15, 2009.

Here are the summer of 2009 seminars:

David Armitage, The International Impact of the Declaration of Independence
Edward L. Ayers, The South in American History
Anthony Badger, The Civil Rights Movement
Thomas Bender, The Progressive Era in Global Context
Carol Berkin, From Colonies to Nation: America in the Eighteenth Century
Carol Berkin, From the Founding of a Nation to the Crisis of the Union
Ira Berlin, North American Slavery in Comparative Perspective
David Blight, Slave Narratives
Gabor Boritt and Matthew Pinsker, Lincoln
Alan Brinkley and Michael Flamm, The Roosevelt Era
Christopher L. Brown, Slavery and the Age of Revolutions
Richard Carwardine, The Age of Lincoln
Nancy Cott, Twentieth Century Women’s Rights Movements
Andrew Delbanco, America’s Moral Crisis: Politics and Culture in the 1850s
John Demos, Everyday Life in Early America
Eric Foner, Reconstruction
Gary Gallagher, The American Civil War
Allen C. Guelzo, Abraham Lincoln and his World
Jonathan Holloway, Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship
James O. Horton and Lois E. Horton, Abolition and the Underground Railroad
Kenneth Jackson and Karen Markoe, New York in the Gilded Age
Chen Jian, U.S.-China Relations
Michael Kazin and Michael Flamm, The Sixties in Historical Perspective
David Kennedy, The Great Depression and World War II
Larry Kramer, The Role of the Supreme Court in U.S. History
Melvyn P. Leffler, The U.S. and the Cold War
Patricia Limerick, Visions of the American Environment
Stephanie McCurry, Nation and Citizen in the Civil War Era
Steven Mintz, Teaching Digital History
Philip Morgan, Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800
Gary Nash, The American Revolution
Peter Onuf and Frank Cogliano, The Age of Jefferson
Clement Price, The Urban Experience
Jack Rakove, Madison and the Constitution
Andrew Robertson, The American Revolution
James Walvin, The Middle Passage
Elliott West, The Great Plains: America’s Crossroads
Odd Arne Westad, The Global Cold War
Gordon Wood, The Era of George Washington
The Oxford Global Lincoln Conference