Applications Open for The Making of America, A Summer Program Designed for K-8 Educators
NEW YORK, NY – The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History will present The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction, an in-person, two-week program, during the summer of 2023. The program, developed with the support of the NEH and designed for K–8 educators, offers the opportunity to explore the people, ideas, and events that made America into a cultural, social, and political reality. Applications are currently being accepted.
Dates: July 9–22, 2023
Location: The George Washington University in Washington, DC
Application Deadline: March 3, 2023, at 11:59 pm PT
About the Program:
The thirty-six teachers selected to participate will learn about Indigenous peoples and colonial societies, the American Revolution and the US Constitution, slavery and early US political and economic systems, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The Making of America will focus on two interconnected themes:
- The efforts to forge a union in a country with extensive regional, cultural, ethnic, and racial diversity
- The meaning, experience, and contest for freedom waged by different groups, from American Indians to American colonists in the Revolutionary era, African Americans during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and women seeking suffrage in the nineteenth century
Teachers will learn through lectures, group discussions, and visits to museums and historic sites around Washington, DC. They will have the opportunity to learn from renowned scholars, engage with place-based and object-based learning, and converse with museum professionals. Stipends for meals, housing, and travel will be provided.
Apply for The Making of America
Watch the video below with program lead Denver Brunsman, associate professor and associate (vice) chair in the History Department at George Washington University, to learn more about The Making of America.
The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Summer Institutes for K–12 Educators.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History will present multiple in-person and online professional development programs in the Summer of 2023.
Visit gilderlehrman.org/summer2023 to explore all of our summer PD opportunities for K–12 educators.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History was founded in 1994 by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman, visionaries and lifelong supporters of American history education. The Institute is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to K–12 history education while also serving the general public. Its mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of American history through educational programs and resources.
At the Institute’s core is the Gilder Lehrman Collection, one of the great archives in American history. Drawing on the 75,000 documents in the Gilder Lehrman Collection and an extensive network of eminent historians, the Institute provides teachers, students, and the general public with direct access to unique primary source materials.
As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is supported through the generosity of individuals, corporations, and foundations. The Institute’s programs have been recognized by awards from the White House, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Organization of American Historians, the Council of Independent Colleges, and the National Daughters of the American Revolution.