Program areas at The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Teacher professional development and programs in American historyteacher professional development programs have reached teachers in all 50 states and include 21 online teacher seminars. The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and pace university have partnered to offer an affordable, fully online master's degree program, led by renowned, award-winning historians. Staff development workshops were conducted in school districts across The country. More than 20,000 certificates for pd were issued through gli professional development activities this year.
Museum collections through exhibitions and educational resourcesthe collection includes over 85,000 primary source documents relating to American History, of which 90-95% are digitized and 20% of which are available on The gli website. Documents are searchable not only by keywords but era of History. Traveling exhibition panels on major topics in American History are in circulation and visited states across The country. Gilder Lehrman collection's primary sources are also on display in physical exhibition spaces at The n-yhs, mt. Vernon, gettysburg and national constitution center. In 2020, The Institute started an online program called inside The vault: highlights from The Gilder Lehrman collection, which has now served more than 7,000 teachers, students, scholars and lovers of History. The Institute's website www.gilderlehrman.org has over 3m unique visitors per year.
Student programs:student programs reached students in all fifty states and over 90 countries outside of The us. The total number of schools that participated in gli affiliate school program was over 32,500, reaching over 10.7 million students. The Gilder Lehrman Institute partnered with The rockefeller foundation and The musical "hamilton" to create an education program for The show. Eduham online and eduham at home programs had participation from over 200,000 students. The Institute's ap us History study guide had over one million unique visitors. In response to learning gap in schools during pandemic, The Institute also started online American History courses called History school, in which 6,500 students participated.
Other programs. National History teacher of The year award program, national book prizes, conferences outreach, scholarly & college fellowship program and book breaks weekly online program.