THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE HISTORY ANNUAL REPORT 2015 1 )Ir I CONTENTS 2 LETTER FROM SENIOR LEADERSHIP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2015 STATS AT-A-GLANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 HAMILTON PROJECT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 SCHOOL PROGRAMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 SATURDAY ACADEMIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 TEACHER PROGRAMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 TEACHER SEMINARS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 GILDER LEHRMAN ONLINE GRADUATE COURSES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 TEACHING LITERACY THROUGH HISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 DIGITAL PROJECTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 THE GILDER LEHRMAN COLLECTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 PUBLICATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 PUBLIC PROGRAMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 AWARDS AND PRIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 NATIONAL BOOK PRIZES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 SCHOLARLY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 HISTORY SCHOLAR AWARDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 GILDER LEHRMAN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SLAVERY, RESISTANCE, AND ABOLITION. . . 43 DEVELOPMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 FINANCIAL SUMMARY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 2015 DONORS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 GALA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 OPPORTUNITIES FOR GIVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS AND PARTNERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 INTERNSHIPS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 LEADERSHIP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 BOARD OF TRUSTEES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 ADVISORY BOARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 DEPARTMENTS AND STAFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 ABOUT THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cover: Members of the Gilder Lehrman Student Advisory Council meet Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda at the George Washington Prize ceremony. ABOUT THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE Founded in 1994 by philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is the nation’s leading nonprofit provider of K–12 teacher training and classroom resources in American history. PROGRAMS FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS The Affiliate School Program A free, national network with more than 8,000 participating schools, offering free classroom materials, exclusive access to Teacher Seminars, scholarships, discounts, and more. The Hamilton Project A collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation and New York City Public Schools, beginning in 2016, that will allow 20,000 students to see matinee performances of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed Broadway musical Hamilton. Teaching Literacy through History An interdisciplinary professional development program that uses primary sources to improve K–12 education. Teacher Seminars Weeklong programs that offer teachers daily discussions with eminent historians, visits to local historic sites, and hands-on work with primary sources. History Teacher of the Year A national award ceremony that honors exceptional K–12 American history teachers. Online Graduate Courses A rigorous academic program featuring top professors and allowing educators worldwide the chance to pursue the Gilder Lehrman M.A. in American History. Awards and Book Prizes A variety of honors and opportunities including the History Scholar Awards, student essay contests, scholarly fellowships, and three co-sponsored, nationally renowned book prizes. RESOURCES AND DIGITAL PUBLICATIONS The Gilder Lehrman Collection A unique treasury of more than 60,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, and photographs that document the history of the United States. Online resources Multiple cutting-edge offerings including the AP US History Study Guide, digitized primary sources, virtual exhibitions, and the online journal History Now. American History, 1493–1945 An annotated online database that makes nearly 57,000 documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection available online to subscribing universities and libraries worldwide. Traveling Exhibitions A series of ten panel exhibitions for display at schools, libraries, and other sites nationwide. History by Era The Institute’s gateway to teaching and learning American history, featuring lesson plans for K–12 teachers, essays by distinguished scholars, annotated primary sources, interactive timelines, and multimedia presentations. 2 Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are pleased to share with you some of the Institute’s highlights of the past year. In 2015, the Institute Launched a partnership to send New York City schoolchildren to see Hamilton. Beginning in Spring 2016, our collaboration with The Rockefeller Foundation, Hamilton, and the New York City Department of Education will allow 20,000 students from Title I schools to see performances of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s acclaimed musical. Achieved record-breaking website visits. Our website, gilderlehrman.org, received more than 7.2 million visits in 2015, up from 4.4 million in 2014. That number includes 5.1 million unique visitors, a 55% increase from the previous year. Expanded the Gilder Lehrman AP US History Study Guide, the go-to resource for students. Approximately 240,000 students used Gilder Lehrman’s study guide in 2015, over half of the total number of students taking the test. Added more than 2,000 schools to the Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School Program. Our Affiliate School network grew to nearly 8,000 schools in 2015, providing support and resources to K–12 students in all 50 states and 39 foreign countries. Co-curated the Lincoln Speaks exhibition at the Morgan Library. The exhibition received raves in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Associated Press and welcomed more than 70,000 visitors during its run in Spring 2015. This year Gilder Lehrman raised more than $3.96 million in contributions from 414 foundations, corporate donors, and individuals. We thank all of you for your support and encouragement, and we look forward to great progress in 2016. Sincerely, James G. Basker Lesley S. Herrmann President Executive Director 3 7,773 240,000 20,000 Schools in the Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School Program Students using Gilder Lehrman’s online AP US History Study Guide, over half of the total number of students taking the test New York City Public School students attending Hamilton via a partnership created in October 2015 2015 STATS AT-A-GLANCE 71,885 Visitors to the Lincoln Speaks exhibition at the Morgan Library, co-curated by the Gilder Lehrman Institute 4 1,047 5.1 million 7.2 million Educators who attended Gilder Lehrman 2015 Teacher Seminars Unique visitors to the Gilder Lehrman website Total site visits to gilderlehrman.org 123 14,442 732 Sites that hosted traveling exhibitions across 35 states Sets of educational resources provided to classrooms across the country Total participants enrolled in Gilder Lehrman’s online graduate courses 660 774 2,194 Applicants for Gilder Lehrman’s Student Essay Contests Total number of manuscripts and other acquisitions added to the Gilder Lehrman Collection Students participating in Gilder Lehrman Saturday Academies 77 450 400 Institutional acquisitions of parts 1 and 2 of the digitized Gilder Lehrman Collection, American History, 1493-1945 Students and teachers who visited the Gilder Lehrman Collection in person Teachers nominated for the 2015 History Teacher of the Year Award 5 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS Lin-Manuel Miranda, center, and the cast of Hamilton. THE HAMILTON PROJECT Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Rockefeller Foundation, the NYC Department of Education, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History announced an educational partnership to provide 20,000 11th grade students from New York City’s Title I schools with the opportunity to see the hit musical Hamilton and integrate the show into classroom studies. This educational initiative is made possible through a grant by The Rockefeller Foundation to Gilder Lehrman. Gilder Lehrman will develop the educational programming for students and teachers designed around the Hamilton experience and oversee the scheduling of school groups to attend the show. A Hamilton study and performance guide will be supplemented by the Hamilton Online Portal for students and teachers. Printed classroom materials will offer students a creative platform for drafting their own original raps, songs, poems, monologues, and scenes. The first student matinees will take place on April 13 and May 11, 2016. With book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical direction and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire, Hamilton is based on Ron Chernow’s 2004 biography of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton. 6 “Our goal is to ensure that all students have a shot to see Hamilton and use its words, music, and staging to further their enjoyment of American history, music, and drama.” —Jeffrey Seller, Hamilton producer “ The Rockefeller Foundation recognizes Hamilton as a groundbreaking work of genius and everyone should have the opportunity to see it, regardless of their resources. . . . We are making a small down payment towards inspiring the next generation of historians, artists, singers and musicians, and it’s one that fits squarely within our goal of expanding opportunities to achieve positive impact.” —Judith Rodin, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Members of the Gilder Lehrman Student Advisory Council meet with the cast of Hamilton after a performance. “ It is a dream come true to have a program like this exist in connection to Hamilton. I can’t wait to perform for a theater full of students who are learning about our Founding Fathers in class and seeing how it still relates to their own lives on stage. They will see Hamilton’s story, and I’m hopeful that the stories it will inspire in them will change our lives in ways we can’t even anticipate.” —Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton creator and star “Hamilton offers a great opportunity to hook a whole new generation on American history. Students will learn about the Founding Fathers in ways that speak to them from the heart instead of a textbook.” —Lesley Herrmann, Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, Gilder Lehrman Institute 7 SCHOOL PROGRAMS The Gilder Lehrman Institute works to improve student performance in every kind of school—public, private, parochial, and charter—at the elementary and secondary levels. To this end, we maintain ongoing relationships with schools across the country. We oversee a growing national network of Affiliate Schools; we offer students advancement through our Saturday Academies; and we bring renowned historians into schools to work directly with students and teachers. Students at North Hills Middle School (PA), a Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School. Photo: Kristina Serafini,Trib Total Media AFFILIATE SCHOOL PROGRAM The Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School Program promotes teacher development and innovation in history teaching. Initiated by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the program provides schools with free educational resources, professional development, and tools designed to bring American history to life in the classroom. By the end of 2015, the Affiliate School Program had reached 7,773 schools—up from 5,981 in 2014. There are member schools in all 50 states, 4 US territories, and 39 foreign countries. Through our Affiliate Schools, we reach approximately 2,000,000 students each year. In 2015, thousands of teachers nationwide benefited from Gilder Lehrman resources and professional development. More than 5,000 Affiliate School teachers requested and received free materials, including posters, calendars, and document booklets. More than 20,000 Affiliate School teachers used the Gilder Lehrman website to deepen their knowledge of American history and improve classroom instruction. 8 AFFILIATE STATE SCHOOLS AFFILIATE COUNTRY SCHOOLS Alabama 94 Alaska 31 Arizona 145 Arkansas 70 California 1001 Colorado 126 Connecticut 119 Delaware 30 District of Columbia 34 Florida 368 Georgia 185 Hawaii 24 Idaho 46 Illinois 329 Indiana 88 Iowa 75 Kansas 112 Kentucky 110 Louisiana 111 Maine 45 Maryland 132 Massachusetts 245 Michigan 155 Minnesota 112 Mississippi 43 Missouri 128 Montana 27 Nebraska 42 Nevada 45 New Hampshire 37 New Jersey 339 New Mexico 62 New York 786 North Carolina 330 North Dakota 15 Ohio 198 Oklahoma 73 Oregon 86 Pennsylvania 192 Rhode Island 33 South Carolina 104 South Dakota 21 Tennessee 99 Texas 476 Utah 111 Vermont 25 Virginia 224 Washington 149 West Virginia 38 Wisconsin 170 Wyoming 17 Armed Forces Europe 5 Armed Forces Pacific 2 Australia 20 Belgium 1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 Brazil 2 Cameroon 2 Canada 8 China 4 Colombia 1 Costa Rica 2 Ecuador 1 Finland 1 France 1 Germany 2 Guam 3 Guatemala 1 India 1 Israel 1 Japan 1 Korea, Republic of 3 Kuwait 1 Mexico 1 Morocco 1 Myanmar 1 New Zealand 1 Nigeria 1 Northern Mariana Islands 2 Norway 1 Pakistan 2 Papua New Guinea 1 Peru 1 Philippines 1 Russian Federation 2 South Africa 3 Spain 1 Sweden 1 Switzerland 2 Taiwan 4 Tanzania, United Republic of 1 Thailand 1 United Arab Emirates 1 United Kingdom 21 Vietnam 1 A Gilder Lehrman Saturday Academy student at the Museum of the City of New York. 9 Dear George Washington Contest The Dear George Washington Contest for elementary school students attending Affiliate Schools entered its fourth year in 2015. Students are asked to imagine themselves as early Americans and write letters to George Washington about the issues they think the newly elected first president should concentrate on during his tenure. 2015 DEAR GEORGE WASHINGTON CONTEST WINNERS FIFTH-GR ADE DIVISION THIRD-GR ADE DIVISION FIRST PLACE FIRST PLACE Melea Jones Marina Richey Thomas Jefferson Classical Academy, Mooresboro, North Carolina Teacher: Ms. Georgia Maimone Mountain Park Elementary, Roswell, Georgia Teacher: Mrs. Kati Searcy SECOND PLACE Julitza Geiger Rasia Graves SECOND PLACE Rineyville Elementary, Rineyville, Kentucky Teacher: Ms. Traci Gillock U.B. Kinsey/Palmview ESOA, West Palm Beach, Florida Teacher: Dr. Lavinia Draper THIRD PLACE THIRD PLACE Abigale Atnip Abby Butler Midvale Elementary, Midvale, Idaho Teacher: Ms. Tonya Holmes St. Mary Parish, Derby, Kansas Teacher: Ms. Angie Gumm FOURTH PLACE FOURTH PLACE Kalei Foley-Rutherfurd Aakycea Herring Thaddeus Stevens, Lyndon, Vermont Teacher: Ms. Kelli Kazmarski U.B. Kinsey/Palmview ESOA, West Palm Beach, Florida Teacher: Dr. Lavinia Draper FOUR TH-GR ADE DIVISION FIRST PLACE A Gilder Lehrman essay contest winner. McKenzie Flynn FIRST PLACE Notre Dame Academy, Palisades Park, New Jersey Teacher: Ms. Julia Guthrie Thomas Klosterman St. Mary Parish, Derby, Kansas Teacher: Ms. Angie Gumm SECOND PLACE SECOND PLACE Olivia DelleCave Taylor Drake Holy Angels Catholic Academy, Brooklyn, New York Teacher: Mrs. Deborah Gaines Weaver Elementary, Los Alamitos, California Teacher: Mrs. Caulder THIRD PLACE THIRD PLACE Ricardo A. Garcia Brenden Doyle Silver Creek Elementary, Thornton, Colorado Teacher: Ms. Janelle Howell Three Rivers Union School, Three Rivers, California Teacher: Mrs. Jami Beck FOURTH PLACE 10 SECOND-GR ADE DIVISION Steven Sanchez FOURTH PLACE Holy Angels Catholic Academy, Brooklyn, New York Teacher: Mrs. Deborah Gaines Shuman Elementary, Savannah, Georgia Teacher: Ms. Lucille Janeen McAbee Raekala Riddle 2015 Lincoln Prize winner Harold Holzer and Gilder Lehrman co-founder Lewis E. Lehrman with the 2015 Civil War Essay Contest winners. Civil War Essay Contest The Gilder Lehrman Institute joins the Civil War Round Table of New York to co-sponsor an annual national essay contest for Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School students on the subject of America’s most divisive conflict. Students are required to examine their selected topic, producing extensive research papers on issues related to the Civil War. 2015 CIVIL WAR ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS HIGH SCHOOL DIVISION ( G R A DE S 9 – 1 2 ) MIDDLE SCHOOL DIVISION ( GR A D E S 6 – 8 ) FIRST PRIZE FIRST PRIZE Anjelica Matcho Justin Swanson Bridgewater Raritan High School, Bridgewater, New Jersey “Dethroning King Cotton: The Failed Diplomacy of the Confederacy” Johnson Creek Middle School, Johnson Creek, Wisconsin “How Was the Strategy of Blockades Influenced by Britain?” SECOND PRIZE Jamie Joung Stefano E. Jacobson Collegiate School, New York, New York “Andrew Johnson’s Pardoning Policy and the Failure of Freedmen’s Land Ownership during Reconstruction” THIRD PRIZE Dante Mangiaracina Collegiate School, New York, New York “The Army for Lincoln in 1864: Electing the President, Ending the War, and Changing the Voting Process” HONOR ABLE MENTION SECOND PRIZE The Manning School, Golden, Colorado “Our Strengths as Women” THIRD PRIZE Maya Jowers Endeavor Hall Charter School, West Valley City, Utah “The Emancipation Proclamation: A Key Factor in the Civil War” ( I N A L P H A B E TI C A L O RD E R ) Zachary Cherian James Creissen Scott Fairbanks Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough, California “The Role of the Civil War in the Expansion of the American Healthcare System” East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina “Southern Inequality: The Planter Class and the American Civil War” Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York “Descent into Tyranny? Civil Liberties in a Wartime State” Jane Colon-Bonet Isabel Cushing Eli Guenzburger Rocky Mountain High School, Fort Collins, Colorado “The Backbone of Motivation: How Incentive in the North vs. the South Aided the Union to Victory” Concord Academy, Concord, Massachusetts “Voices from Behind the Veil: The Literary Tradition of African American Women” The Bronx High School of Science, Bronx, New York “The American Civil War and Perceptions of Jewish-American Identity” Abigail Doroshow Georgetown Day School, Washington, DC “‘Potomac Calls to Chesapeake’: Maryland as a Microcosm of the Civil War” 11 Age of Revolution Essay Contest The Gilder Lehrman Institute and Sidney Lapidus inaugurated in 2015 a new annual essay contest for Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School students. The Age of Revolution Essay Contest encourages high school students to examine the transformations in social and political ideas and movements from the late 1600s to the early 1800s. Students develop an original essay based on primary sources in the Sid Lapidus ’59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution at Princeton University. 6th grade students learn to handle a rare manuscript at the Gilder Lehrman Collection. 2015 AGE OF REVOLUTION ESSAY CONTEST WINNERS Jordan D. Axe Katherine Pickerill Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California “The American Revolution and Its Correlation to Patterns of European Revolutions” PORTA High School, Petersburg, Illinois “Judaism and Revolutionary Ideology” Ayah Elmansy PORTA High School, Petersburg, Illinois “The Art of Revolution” Academy of Information Technology and Engineering, Stamford, Connecticut “The Impact of the American Revolution on the Freedom of Press” Shannon Guerra Academy of Information Technology and Engineering, Stamford, Connecticut “The Impact of Saint Domingue and Jamaica on the Slave Trade Clause in America” Connor Kelly St. Anne’s-Belfield School, Charlottesville, Virginia “Slavery and Abolitionism in the Age of Enlightenment” Alexandra Kurland Las Lomas High School, Walnut Creek, California “‘A Race of Amazons’: The Role of Women in the American Revolution” 12 Holly Piepenburg Luis Quesada Academy of Information Technology and Engineering, Stamford, Connecticut “Slavery and the Enlightenment” Matthew Waltman Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, New Jersey “That ‘Germ of American Freedom’: The Trial of John Peter Zenger” Lark Wang The Bishop’s School, La Jolla, California “A Comparison between French and American Slave Codes” SATURDAY ACADEMIES Gilder Lehrman Saturday Academies are elective, six-session courses for middle school and high school students, offered free of charge on Saturday mornings. In 2015, more than 2,000 students in grades six through twelve opted to take Saturday classes in American history and test preparation. Students in Gilder Lehrman Saturday Academies improve their basic literacy and critical-reading skills, work on creative projects, and prepare for SAT and AP exams. Since 1996 more than 35,000 students have participated in the Saturday Academies. Here are the 2015 Academies, which were held in Kansas and New York, with enrollment figures: Abraham Lincoln High School, Brooklyn, New York Andover High School, Andover, Kansas New-York Historical Society, New York, New York Spring 2015: 80 students Fall 2015: 232 students Fall 2015: 131 students Academy of American Studies, Queens, New York Heights High School, Wichita, Kansas Notre Dame School, New York, New York Spring 2015: 152 students Fall 2015: 185 students Spring 2015: 157 students Fall 2015: 143 students Museum of the City of New York, New York, New York Salesian High School, New Rochelle, New York Spring 2015: 223 students Fall 2015: 240 students Fall 2015: 195 students All Hallows High School, Bronx, New York Fall 2015: 150 students New Dorp High School, Staten Island, New York Spring 2015: 306 students Students from the Saturday Academy at the Museum of the City of New York collaborate on a project. 13 TEACHER PROGRAMS TEACHER SEMINARS Since 1994, more than 13,000 teachers from 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 30 foreign countries have participated in 504 Gilder Lehrman Teacher Seminars. The Gilder Lehrman Institute sponsors intellectually rich and academically rigorous seminars each summer for elementary, middle, and high school teachers, community college faculty, and educators from the National Park Service. Limited to thirty participants each, the seminars are highly competitive, and teachers consider the seminars among the best professional development experiences of their careers. In 2015, Teacher Seminars served 1,047 educators from 49 states and 7 countries: Shawn Leigh Alexander David W. Blight Peter S. Carmichael The Civil Rights Movement University of Kansas Slave Narratives Yale University Council of Independent Colleges Seminar The American Civil War through Material Culture and Historical Landscapes Gettysburg College Co-sponsored by the Civil War Institute Joyce Appleby American Capitalism University of California, Los Angeles Carol Berkin American Women from the Colonial to the Modern Era New York University Colin G. Calloway Native American History Dartmouth College Vincent Cannato The Rise and Fall of the Postwar American City Boston University Richard Carwardine The Age of Lincoln University of Oxford Frank Cogliano Thomas Jefferson and the Enlightenment University of Edinburgh Jane Dailey The Age of Jim Crow in History and Literature, 1865–1975 University of Chicago John Demos Colonial Encounters: Indians, Europeans, and Africans Yale University Joseph J. Ellis John and Abigail Adams Amherst College Jeffrey Engel America after the Cold War Southern Methodist University Co-sponsored by the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum John Fea The Thirteen Colonies Princeton University Gary W. Gallagher North Hills Middle School (PA) teacher and 2015 Teacher Seminar participant Larry Dorenkamp with his students. photo: Kristina Serafini, Trib Total Media 14 The American Civil War: Origins and Consequences University of Virginia Robert P. George Constitutional Principles Princeton University Allen C. Guelzo Gettysburg: History and Memory Gettysburg College Kenneth T. Jackson and Karen Markoe Empire City: New York and the Transformation of American Life, 1877–1929 Columbia University An NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop David M. Kennedy The Great Depression and World War II Stanford University Larry D. Kramer The Role of the Supreme Court in American History Stanford University Mitchell B. Lerner and David Steigerwald The Cold War at Home and Abroad The Ohio State University Patricia Nelson Limerick The American Environment in Historical Perspective University of Colorado, Boulder Edward T. Linenthal All Hallows High School (NY) teacher Holly Oddo at the Thomas Jefferson and the Enlightenment seminar in Edinburgh, Scotland, in July 2015. Donald L. Miller David Sicilia The Story of World War II National World War II Museum Co-sponsored by the National World War II Museum The Dynamic American Economy: 1865 to the Present University of Maryland Michael Neiberg Philadelphia and the Era of the American Revolution University of Pennsylvania America and the First World War: 1914–1919 George Washington University Mae Ngai Immigrants in American History and Life Columbia University 9/11 and American Memory New York University Co-sponsored by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum Jason Opal Peter Mancall and Robert C. Ritchie Matthew Pinsker American Origins: 1492 to 1625 University of Southern California Sydney M. Milkis and Marc J. Selverstone The Modern American Presidency University of Virginia New Perspectives on Jacksonian America McGill University Patrick K. Spero John Stauffer American Protest Literature: Thomas Paine to the Present Harvard University Jeremi Suri US Foreign Policy since 1898 University of Texas Elliott West The Undergroud Railroad Columbia University Lewis and Clark: An American Epic University of Montana Co-sponsored by the Lewis and Clark Trust Andrew W. Robertson Richard White The American Revolution Columbia University The Gilded Age and Its Modern Parallels Stanford University Bruce Schulman The Era of Theodore Roosevelt Boston University Gordon S. Wood The Era of George Washington George Washington’s Mount Vernon “ This was the single most inspiring and academically informative moment I have had since graduating from Stanford (18 years ago). The other 26 teachers in the seminar were motivated, dedicated, and inspiring. I have been raving about Gilder Lehrman and the seminar to anyone who will listen!” —Sylena Goodman, Teacher, The Dalton School and 2015 Teacher Seminar participant 15 GILDER LEHRMAN ONLINE GRADUATE COURSES Through 2015, 732 participants have enrolled in Gilder Lehrman’s online graduate program. Our student body hails from all 50 states, 3 US territories, and 6 continents. We now offer eight courses per academic year—each broadcast live, in real time—led by outstanding teacher-scholars, including Edward L. Ayers, Allen C. Guelzo, Stephanie McCurry, James Oakes, Peter Onuf, Barbara Perry, and Jeremi Suri. The program’s financial model is strong, proven, and self-sustaining. In the spring, we will launch three new courses, with eight more in development for the summer, fall, and following spring. We expect to celebrate the program’s first online MA in American History graduates by the end of 2016. Gilder Lehrman Online Courses Completed, in-progress, and planned course offerings, 2014–2017 SUMMER 2014 SUMMER 2015 SUMMER 2016 Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College Understanding Lincoln James Oakes, City University of New York Emancipation Matthew Pinsker, Dickinson College Understanding Lincoln FALL 2014 Barbara Perry, University of Virginia The Kennedy Presidency James Basker, Barnard College Amazing Grace: How Writers Helped End Slavery FALL 2016 FALL 2015 Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College The American Civil War John Fea, Messiah College Colonial North America SPRING 2015 Peter Onuf, University of Virginia The Age of Jefferson Edward Ayers, University of Richmond The South in American History Michael Neiberg, US Army War College The World at War Jeremi Suri, University of Texas, Austin The Global Cold War SPRING 2016 Peniel Joseph, University of Texas, Austin African American History since Emancipation Stephanie McCurry, Columbia University Women and Gender in 19th Century America Melvin Urofsky, Virginia Commonwealth University The Supreme Court and the Constitution in the 20th Century The South in American History professor, Edward Ayers, leads a virtual field tour of James Madison’s Montpelier. 16 John Stauffer, Harvard University Black Writers in American History Denver Brunsman, George Washington University Revolutionary America Vincent Cannato, University of Massachusetts, Boston American Immigration History Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College The American Civil War SPRING 2017 James Basker, Barnard College Amazing Grace: How Writers Helped End Slavery Colin Calloway, Dartmouth College American Indian History Linda Gordon, New York University Women and Politics in 20th-Century America This listing of 21 courses includes 18 unique offerings over 9 semesters. TOTAL PARTICIPANTS GRADUATES COMPLETING COURSE GRADUATE COMPLETION RATE 16 52% 29 94% 17 54 48 48 59 108 94 96 103 100 96 105 973 89% 56% 89% 94% 89% 98% 97% 95% 98% 86% 91% 91% 87% AUDITORS 2012-2013 Civil War and Reconstruction 31 n/a 31 2013-2014 The Sixties in Historical Perspective 31 n/a 31 Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship 19 n/a 19 Understanding Lincoln 97 620 717 2014-2015 Understanding Lincoln 54 247 301 The American Civil War 51 79 130 Amazing Grace: How Writers Helped End Slavery 66 59 125 The South in American History 110 102 212 The Global Cold War 97 73 170 2015-2016 Emancipation 101 84 185 The Kennedy Presidency 105 83 188 Colonial North America 116 54 170 The Age of Jefferson 105 57 162 The World at War 116 54 170 1,099 1,512 2,611 ACADEMIC YEAR COURSE GRADUATE PARTICIPANTS Enrollment in Gilder Lehrman Online Courses, 2012–2015 Understanding Lincoln professor Matthew Pinsker leads a virtual battlefield tour of Gettysburg. 17 TEACHING LITERACY THROUGH HISTORY™ Teaching Literacy through History™ (TLTH™) is an interdisciplinary professional development program that uses primary sources to improve K–12 education. Schools and school districts can select, combine, and adapt different elements of TLTH, including pedagogy training, curriculum planning, and lectures by eminent historians. Gilder Lehrman’s Master Teacher Fellows work with educators to improve content knowledge, align curriculum with their state’s History, Civics, and English Language Arts standards, including Common Core initiatives, and introduce skills that can be brought back to the classroom, library, or museum—any institution looking to inspire more knowledgeable, focused, and engaged students. New York City Public School teachers attending a Teaching Literacy through History training session. In 2015, Gilder Lehrman conducted more than 50 Teaching Literacy through History sessions at schools, conferences, and historic sites, reaching more than 1,500 educators and, by extension, approximately 45,000 students. “ I can honestly say that yesterday was the best professional development I’ve attended during my time with the district. I thought [ TLTH] did a great job teaching us how to use primary source historical documents to improve literacy.” —Dan Peterson, Racine Unified School District 18 Teaching Literacy through History teachers learning to make document-based lesson plans. A Program with National Appeal In 2015, Gilder Lehrman’s Master Teacher Fellows brought Teaching Literacy through History’s techniques, strategies, and custom curriculum to classrooms throughout the country, including Los Angeles Unified School District Memphis Public Schools New Orleans Schools New York City, Newark, and Los Angeles Archdioceses New York City Public Schools Racine (WI) Public Schools St. Louis Public Schools Weber (UT) Public Schools A NEW CLASSROOM RESOURCE In 2015, through a grant from the William E. Simon Foundation, Gilder Lehrman created Teaching with Documents: The Twentieth Century: 1946–2001, containing lesson plans that cover key themes in the second half of the twentieth century. The lessons are based on speeches, letters, articles, cartoons, and paintings. It also contains a 34” x 22” illustrated timeline highlighting important dates and events. 19 DIGITAL PROJECTS During the past year, the range and scope of digital resources for teachers and students on the Gilder Lehrman website have increased significantly. The Institute’s traveling exhibitions and print publications have been translated into engaging digital formats, and new web offerings covering numerous topics in American history have been created. These features helped push the website’s traffic to more than five million unique visitors for the year. Gilder Lehrman Website Visits, 2012–2015 2015 2014 2013 7.28 million 2012 4.41 million 2.67 million 1.34 million January February March April May June July August September Unique Visitors, 2012–2015 October November December 5,300,000 3,410,000 2,060,000 960,000 2012 20 2013 2014 2015 Gilder Lehrman AP US History Study Guide In September 2014, the Gilder Lehrman AP US History Guide—a collection of video, audio, timelines, essays, and documents created for students preparing for the AP US History exam—was launched. By the test date in May 2015, site traffic indicates that at least 50 percent of the 475,000 students who took the exam visited our site. Month after month traffic on the Study Guide increased at a steady rate of more than 150 percent. A page from the AP US History Study Guide. “ Your new AP US materials are amazing. I used them extensively in class. I like that the documents have an explanation for the students; they seem to understand them more when they work independently. Rationale and explanation are what help the students the most. I also like the essays! They even help me understand things better and more in depth.” —Teacher feedback Tools for Teachers and Students In 2015, we added a variety of resources designed to help teachers. These include a digital literacy video series, in which a teacher gives instructions for creating interactive digital history features for use in the classroom as teaching tools or as platforms for student projects. “Essential Questions in American History,” a popular teaching resource on our website, has been redesigned to connect common historical topics to Gilder Lehrman resources, including primary source documents and lesson plans created by Gilder Lehrman’s Master Teacher Fellows. In 2015, we created a study guide to serve the more than 70,000 students per year preparing to take the SAT Subject Test in United States History. This guide features quizzes that test student knowledge and point students to Gilder Lehrman resources when their answer is incorrect. The guide also contains study cards that provide an interactive way to revisit history’s high points. An example of a digital card featured in the new interactive “Essential Questions in American History.” 21 Expanding and Enhancing Digital Offerings In 2015 several significant additions were made to the Gilder Lehrman website to improve its quality and usability: Ten foundational “History by Era” timelines updated with multimedia content, including video and audio clips Infographics on popular web pages to supplement existing content and make it more engaging An interactive guide to the Gilder Lehrman Collection’s most important primary sources, including An annotated engraving of the Emancipation Proclamation A visual analysis of Paul Revere’s famous 1770 Boston Massacre engraving An interactive map of Lewis and Clark’s westward expedition An interactive slideshow of Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre. We expanded our exhibit commemorating the 74th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, on display at the New-York Historical Society, into an interactive digital map featuring documents and images from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. A slide from the Pearl Harbor digital exhibit. 22 Digital Partnerships This year, the Gilder Lehrman Institute was selected to partner with the Google Cultural Institute (GCI), which presents online exhibitions from around the world. In 2015, Gilder Lehrman converted four traveling exhibitions and several print books to this online format. As part of a Google Cultural initiative on African American history, we created six digital exhibits featuring Gilder Lehrman’s rich materials on African American history. These digital exhibits can be found on the GCI main online space and on the Gilder Lehrman website. The title page of a new Gilder Lehrman online exhibition, “African Americans in the US Military,” launched on the Google Cultural Institute. 23 THE GILDER LEHRMAN COLLECTION The Gilder Lehrman Collection, housed at the New-York Historical Society, includes more than 60,000 letters, diaries, maps, pamphlets, printed books, newspapers, photographs, and ephemera that document the political, social, and economic history of the United States. Ranging from 1493 through the 20th century, the Collection is widely considered one of the nation’s great archives in the Revolutionary, early national, antebellum, and Civil War periods. New Acquisitions In 2015, the Gilder Lehrman Collection continued to expand its 20th-century holdings with the acquisition of 774 new items. Highlights include A letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Ludwig Wronkow of the newspaper Aufbau, discussing the contribution of German Jewish immigrants to the war effort, 1943 Two photographs of African American servicemen during World War II Instructions on what to do if unregistered black voters attempted to vote in the 1963 Democratic primary Materials related to the Herbert Humphrey campaign, 1968 Poster, “Our Colored Soldiers in Action,” 1919 Camp Songs of the United States Ambulance Corp, 1917–1918 Nine archives with more than 740 letters dating from 1933 to 1978 Educational Outreach In 2015, the curatorial staff conducted presentations for approximately 450 students and teachers using original documents from the Collection. In these engaging interactive workshops, participants were able to view seminal documents from American history and learned to read and analyze these primary sources. Summer Camp In June 2015, the Gilder Lehrman Collection hosted a oneweek summer camp, Discovering the Hidden Stories of Slavery and Abolition, with rising 6th and 7th grade students from St. David’s School in Manhattan. The students used Gilder Lehrman documents and Google Cultural (a free online program) to create an online exhibition. Acting as curators, the campers read, transcribed, and researched original manuscripts from the Collection. They presented their work for their parents on the final day. Professional Conferences Middle school students review documents at the Gilder Lehrman Collection. 24 In April, the Collection partnered with the DiMenna Children’s History Museum to present a session at the American Alliance of Museums conference in Atlanta, Georgia. “Can I Handle It? Getting Kids Up-Close with Your Collections” highlighted the importance of hands-on programs and workshops for students. A middle school student reviews a 16th-century document at the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Public Programming In January 2015, we launched a new monthly Saturday program, Up Close & Personal with Treasures from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Each month the curatorial staff led conversations about selected key documents, their context, and their significance. More than 200 people attended these Saturday programs at the Collection. Featured Primary Sources In 2015, the Gilder Lehrman Collection continued to expand and enhance its selection of Featured Primary Sources on the Institute’s website, raising the total number of Collection-based featured resources to 256. Existing resources were enhanced by the creation of new interactive features to facilitate greater exploration of the documents. Inside the Vault Launched in October 2015, Inside the Vault is a weekly video series that highlights interesting materials from the Collection. In each segment, the curator delves into the hidden history behind our most important documents from 1493 through the 20th century. Reference, Rights, and Reproductions Reference requests rose nearly 60 percent in 2015, reaching a total of 1,085 inquiries, including reading room visits, distance reference services, and rights and reproduction requests. 25 Exhibitions at the Morgan Library Lincoln Speaks: Words That Transformed a Nation, January 2015–June 2015. Co-curated with the Morgan Library & Museum, this exhibition focused on Abraham Lincoln’s mastery of language and how his words changed the course of history. An online version of the exhibition is available at abrahamlincoln.org. PRAISE FOR LINCOLN SPEAKS “Fascinating”—Wall St. Journal “Full of surprises”—Associated Press “Engrossing”—New York Times Reflections of a Nation: American Writings from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, November 2015– March 2016. This exhibition features documents representing pivotal events in American history: a first-edition book of poetry by Phillis Wheatley, a letter written to John Brown by a widow of the Pottawatomie massacre, and personal letters illustrating the struggles and sacrifices people encountered during the Civil War and Jim Crow era. Exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society Witnesses to History, January–September 2015.This rotating exhibition featured powerful documents and images that serve as historical evidence to humanize and deepen our understanding of American history. Whether authored by leaders creating events or ordinary citizens living through them, these eyewitness accounts were the “breaking news” of their day. They resonate with an emotional force that continues to pull us in and connect us with the people who made history. Alexander Hamilton, September–November 2015. From his appearance on the $10 bill to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s award-winning musical Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton has made unique claims on the American imagination. The significant documents in this exhibition represent key moments in the life of Alexander Hamilton and show his lasting contributions to the founding of our nation. Gilder Lehrman President James G. Basker discusses the Lincoln Speaks exhibition on Al-Jazeera America. Witnesses to History: Pearl Harbor, November 2015–March 2016. Featuring photographs taken by Japanese pilots and US Navy personnel, this exhibition explores the attack and immediate aftermath of the “date which will live in infamy,” December 7, 1941. The digital projects staff developed an accompanying online exhibition, which features high-resolution images, interactive maps, and more at gilderlehrman.org/pearlharbor. Other Institutions Featuring Documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs, 1859–1872, National Portrait Gallery, September 18, 2015–March 13, 2016, features photographs from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The Books and Manuscripts Gallery at George Washington’s Mount Vernon features an ongoing exhibition of the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. Treasures of the Civil War: Legendary Leaders Who Shaped a War and a Nation, Gettysburg National Military Park Museum & Visitors Center, June 2013–June 2015, features 37 items from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, including letters written by Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, and Robert E. Lee. New York Rising, New-York Historical Society, an ongoing exhibition, includes slave shackles meant for a young child and several letters from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. The Story of We the People, National Constitution Center, includes an anti-Jackson broadside from the Gilder Lehrman Collection. 26 American History, 1493-1945 Digital publication of the Gilder Lehrman Collection was completed in June 2015. American History, 14931945 makes nearly 57,000 documents from the Collection available online to subscribing universities and libraries worldwide. Digitization is an important tool in preserving documents for future generations while increasing access to archival material. American History contains high-resolution images, individual-item cataloging, and enhanced search capabilities that open the Collection to researchers like never before. The digitized materials include unpublished letters and diaries, images, broadsides, maps, official documents, books, and pamphlets. As of December 31, 2015, there have been 77 acquisitions by institutions in the United States and abroad. View the digitized collection at americanhistory.amdigital.co.uk. PART I (42 ACQUISITIONS) Aarhus University Appalachian State University Brandeis University Brigham Young University California State University, Channel Islands College of William and Mary Collegiate School (K–12) Columbia University Denison University Emmanuel College Georgetown University Gettysburg College Hamilton College Harvard University Johnson County Community College Library of Congress Lingnan University Marquette University Michigan State University New Canaan Country School (K–9) New York University The Ohio State University Pine Crest School (K–12) Princeton University Providence College Texas A&M University–Central Texas Texas Christian University United States Military Academy, West Point United States Supreme Court University of Alberta University of British Columbia University of California, Berkeley UCLA University of Denver University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of Ottawa University of Richmond University of Southern California University of Toronto University of Wyoming Yale University York University PART II (35 ACQUISTIONS) Aarhus University Appalachian State University Brandeis University Brigham Young University California State University, Channel Islands Choate Rosemary Hall (9–12) College of William and Mary Collegiate School (K–12) Columbia University Denison University Emmanuel College Georgetown University Gettysburg College Hamilton College Harvard University Johnson County Community College Library of Congress Lingnan University Michigan State University New Canaan Country School (K–9) New York University The Ohio State University Pine Crest School (K–12) Princeton University Texas A&M University–Central Texas Texas Christian University United States Military Academy, West Point University of Alberta UCLA University of Denver University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of Richmond University of Southern California University of Toronto University of Wyoming 27 PUBLICATIONS The Institute created print publications and posters to provide important teachable historic documents and images for schools, teachers, and students as well as libraries, historical societies, and other community centers. In 2015, we placed more than 10,242 posters, 1,500 calendars, 1,100 copies of History in a Box, 800 books, and 800 CDs in classrooms across the country. New Publications in 2015 BOOKS Teaching with Documents:The 20th Century: 1946– 2001 is the first in a series developed as part of Gilder Lehrman’s Teaching Literacy through History™ (TLTH) professional development program. The Teaching with Documents series is designed to help educators use primary sources to build integrated literacy skills. This book provides seven lesson plans that cover key themes in the second half of the twentieth century. Immigrant, Soldier, Founder, Statesman: Documents from the Life of Alexander Hamilton is a document keepsake for the George Washington Prize event honoring Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of Hamilton. CALENDAR The 2016 Calendar of the 20th Century features photographs and prints of events and important figures accompanied by dates of key events. POSTERS Tarring and Feathering, 1774 Declaration of Independence, 1776: A Unique South Carolina Printing Japanese Strategy in World War II The Liberation of Dachau, 1945 “Praise Song for the Day” by Elizabeth Alexander, 2009 28 Gilder Lehrman Publications in Print BOOKS AND BOOKLETS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER) POSTERS (CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) 2016 Calendar of the 20th Century Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, 3rd edition Abraham Lincoln in His Own Words Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-Slavery Writings, 1760–1820 Great Lincoln Documents: Historians Present Treasures from the Gilder Lehrman Collection “I take up my pen”: Letters from the War James Madison and the Birth of the US Constitution Slavery in the Founding Era: Literary Contexts Teaching with Documents: The Twentieth Century: 1946–2001 Treasures of American History: Documents Presented in Honor of New Citizens of the United States Why Documents Matter: American Originals and the Historical Imagination, Selections from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, 3rd edition Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery North American Colonies (map), 1733 Boston Massacre, March 5, 1770 Phillis Wheatley, 1773 Tarring and Feathering, 1774 Declaration of Independence, 1776 United States Constitution, 1787 Runaway Slave Ads, 1791 and 1852 Anti-Slavery Broadside, 1836 Abolitionist Flag, c. 1859 John Brown, 1800–1859 Abraham Lincoln, 1860 Civil War Scenes, 1861 Literature and the Anti-Slavery Campaign, 1861 United States (map), 1862 Lincoln and His Generals after Antietam, 1862 Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 Civil War Recruiting Poster, 1863 (2) Emancipated Slave Children, 1863 Black Troops in the Civil War, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln, 1863 Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, 1863 Sojourner Truth, 1864 Yosemite Land Grant, 1864 Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, 1865 Fifteenth Amendment, 1870 Theodore Roosevelt, 1906 The Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1915 Suffragist Movement, 1917 20th-Century Immigration, 1917 Immigrants & the War Effort, 1917 Labor on the Home Front, 1918 World War I Recruiting Poster, 1918 Pearl Harbor, 1941 Japanese Strategy in World War II Uncle Sam in World War II Recruiting Nurses in World War II Women in Industry in WWII, 1942 Integrating the Work Force in WWII What WWII Was About World War II and American Patriotism International Cooperation in WWII Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, 1961 The Liberation of Dachau, 1945 Nixon and Mao, 1972 Reagan and Gorbachev Defuse the Cold War, 1987 “Praise Song for the Day” by Elizabeth Alexander, 2009 CDS AND DVDS (ALPHABETICAL ORDER) Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America Freedom: A History of US Historians on the Record: Selected Topics in American History Historians on the Record: The 20th Century HISTORY IN A BOX: PEOPLE, PLACES, POLITICS (CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) American History: An Introduction The Founding Era The American West Abraham Lincoln The Freedom to Move: Immigration and Migration in US History The Twentieth Century: The United States and the World, 1898–1991 29 History Now Launched in 2004, History Now is the online journal of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. It is published three times a year for educators, students, and general readers. Each issue is organized around a major theme in American history and features essays by leading historians, lesson plans by master teachers, interactive timelines and other digital elements, and links to primary sources in the Gilder Lehrman Collection. ESSAYS PUBLISHED IN HISTORY NOW, WINTER 2015–FALL 2015 The Civil Rights Act of 1964: Legislating Equality (History Now 41, Winter 2015) The Role of China in US History (History Now 42, Spring 2015) “Dispatches from the Front: The Civil Rights Act and the Pursuit of Greater Freedom in a Small Southern City” by Charles W. McKinney “The Role of China in US History” by Warren I. Cohen “Civil Rights Leadership and the 1964 Civil Rights Act” by Clarence Taylor “The Passage of the Civil Rights Act” by Clay Risen “Teaching the Civil Rights Act of 1964” by Charles L. Zelden “America and the China Trade” by William R. Sargent “Postwar Taiwan and the USA” by Denny Roy “Chinese American Politics in the Cold War Years” by Charlotte Brooks “‘The Chinese Question’ —Unresolved and Ongoing for Americans” by John Kuo Wei Tchen Wartime Memoirs and Letters from the American Revolution to Vietnam (History Now 43, Fall 2015) “‘Dear Girl, how much I love you’: The Revolutionary War Letters of Henry and Lucy Knox” by Phillip Hamilton “Ralph W. Kirkham: A Christian Soldier in the US-Mexican War” by Amy S. Greenberg “The William Shepp Diaries: Combat and Danger in World War I” by Michael S. Neiberg “‘Dear Miss Cole’: World War I Letters of American Servicemen” by Phillip Papas “The Diary of Ella Jane Osborn, World War I US Army Nurse” by Susan F. Saidenberg “Race and the Good War: An Oral History Interview with Calvin D. Cosby, World War II Veteran” by Cecelia Hartsell “The First Saddest Day of My Life: A Vietnam War Story” by Sharon D. Raynor Lyndon Johnson with the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, and James Farmer in 1964. Learn more in History Now 41, Winter 2015. By the end of 2016, History Now will have published more than 250 original essays by scholars in every field of American history from the Columbian Exchange to the Cold War. 30 TRAVELING EXHIBITIONS The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers ten traveling panel exhibitions for display at schools, libraries, universities, and other sites nationwide. These vibrant displays use reproductions of important documents and images from the Gilder Lehrman Collection to cover major topics in American history, from the founding era to the 20th century. This year, 123 sites in 35 states hosted traveling exhibitions, an increase of 4 percent over 2014. Host sites develop educational programming to complement the exhibitions. Schools and public libraries that belong to our Affiliate School network receive their first Gilder Lehrman traveling exhibition free of charge in order to ensure that all schools and libraries can host an exhibition. In 2015, the Gilder Lehrman Institute donated two exhibitions to museums. One copy of Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freedom was donated to the Evansville African American Museum (Evansville, Indiana), and one copy of Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times was donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum (Springfield, Illinois). EXHIBITIONS Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America Civil War 150: The Civil War Told by Those Who Lived It Emancipation and Its Legacies Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freedom Freedom: A History of US Freedom Riders Looking at Lincoln: Political Cartoons from the Civil War Era The Many Faces of George Washington The Progressive Era: Creating Modern America, 1900–1917 In 2015, Gilder Lehrman traveling exhibitions were displayed in the following types of host institutions: 66 K–12 schools (including 65 Gilder Lehrman Affiliate Schools) 19 public libraries (including 15 Gilder Lehrman Affiliate Libraries) 21 museums, historical societies, and community centers 11 universities 6 legal organizations and conferences Grand Avenue Middle School in Bellmore, New York, used the Progressive Era exhibition to engage students while teaching about the reform movements of the period. Eighth graders developed their own exhibitions and showcased them alongside the Gilder Lehrman exhibition. “ These pictures are a testament to the active student engagement. The Progressive Era exhibit prompted our students to investigate and reflect upon a watershed era in American history.” —Karen McGuinness, Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District, Bellmore, NY 31 2015 Host Sites by Exhibition Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times Escondido Charter High School, Escondido, California Lyles-Crouch Traditional Academy, Gladstone, Missouri Atkins-Johnson Farm and Museum, Alexandria, Virginia Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America Providence Academy, Plymouth, Minnesota Hudson County Community College, Jersey City, New Jersey Civil War 150: The Civil War Told by Those Who Lived It San Diego Public Library, San Diego, California Colorado State University-Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado Enterprise Heritage Center and Museum, Enterprise, Florida Moline Public Library, Moline, Illinois Jessamine County Public Library, Nicholasville, Kentucky Kenton County Public Library, Independence, Kentucky Rosspoint Elementary and Middle School, Baxter, Kentucky Vaughn Middle School, Reno, Nevada New Mexico Junior College, Hobbs, New Mexico Wantagh High School, Wantagh, New York Belmont Abbey College Library, Belmont, North Carolina Josephine Community Libraries, Grants Pass, Oregon Hewitt Public Library, Hewitt, Texas South Belton Middle School, Belton, Texas Billings Farm & Museum, Woodstock, Vermont Emancipation and Its Legacies Marina Village Middle School, El Dorado Hills, California Assets School, Honolulu, Hawaii Zion-Benton Public Library District, Zion, Illinois Afro-American Heritage Center, Davenport, Iowa Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts Ramsey County Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota Griot Museum of Black History, St. Louis, Missouri Van-Far Junior/Senior High School, Vandalia, Missouri La Vista Public Library, La Vista, Nebraska John Witherspoon Middle School, Princeton, New Jersey New Dorp High School, Staten Island, New York South Ocean Middle School, Patchogue, New York Triad Cultural Arts, Inc., Winston-Salem, North Carolina Lorraine County Metro Parks, Sheffield Village, Ohio Merion Mercy Academy, Merion Station, Pennsylvania Fort Donelson National Battlefield, Dover, Tennessee West Jordan Middle School, West Jordan, Utah St. Johnsbury Academy, St. Johnsbury, Vermont 32 Chesterfield Community High School, Chester, Virginia Long Branch Plantation, Millwood, Virginia Oak Hill High School, Oak Hill, West Virginia Washington Middle School, Oconto Falls, Wisconsin Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freedom Gardner Middle School, Temecula, California Mount Miguel High School, Spring Valley, California Redding School of the Arts, Redding, California St. Andrew’s School, Saratoga, California Glenridge Middle School, Orlando, Florida Arbor Station Elementary School, Douglasville, Georgia T. 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Cobb House, Athens, Georgia Fox River Grove Middle School, Fox River Grove, Illinois Orland Park Public Library, Orland Park, Illinois Bishop Carroll Catholic High School, Wichita, Kansas Alamogordo High School, Alamogordo, New Mexico African American Museum of Nassau County, Hempstead, New York Ardsley High School, Ardsley, New York George Fischer Middle School, Carmel, New York Port Washington Library, Port Washington, New York Rockaway Park High School for Environmental Sustainability, Rockaway Park, New York Fargo Public Library, Fargo, North Dakota Nancy Carson Library, North Augusta, South Carolina Mid-Carolina Middle School, Prosperity, South Carolina Alpine Middle School, Houston, Texas Hutto High School, Hutto, Texas Lone Star College-Greenspoint, Houston, Texas Grafton High School, Grafton, West Virginia Jeremiah Curtin Leadership Academy, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Freedom: A History of US Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, California Legacy Museum on Main, LaGrange, Georgia Carter Law Group, Chicago, Illinois Glen Ellyn Public Library, Glen Ellyn, Illinois National Employment Law Council, Chicago, Illinois Freedom Riders Mandel Public Library, West Palm Beach, Florida Judicial College Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans, Louisiana Alma College, Alma, Michigan Notre Dame School, New York, New York Queensbury Middle School, Queensbury, New York College of Staten Island (CUNY), Staten Island, New York Chicod School, Greenville, North Carolina Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio 11th grade students in New Dorp High School (NY) history classes used the Emancipation and Its Legacies traveling exhibition for a major research project and developed presentations around the topic. “ [Freedom Riders] was a great exhibit. We had local docents who lived through the time period and shared personal stories. Most of them were retired educators, so it was fabulous. Two people on the various tours were brought to tears by the account.” —Joyce Pernicone, Mandel Public Library, West Palm Beach, FL Looking at Lincoln: Political Cartoons from the Civil War Era The Progressive Era: Creating Modern America, 1900–1917 Sierra Vista Middle School, Covina, California Evansville African American Museum, Evansville, Indiana Western Kentucky University, Owensboro, Kentucky Brother Martin High School, New Orleans, Louisiana St. Margaret Catholic School, Lake Charles, Louisiana Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, Olney, Maryland East Orange STEM Academy, East Orange, New Jersey Fieldstone Middle School, Thiells, New York CC Wright Elementary School, North Wilkesboro, North Carolina R. Max Abbott Middle School, Fayetteville, North Carolina Jackson Middle School, Grove City, Ohio Pottsboro Area Public Library, Pottsboro, Texas St. Mary’s Hall, San Antonio, Texas Williamson Museum, Georgetown, Texas Mineola Middle School, Mineola, Texas University of Wisconsin-Rock County, Janesville, Wisconsin California Council for Social Studies, Oakland, California Fresno High School, Fresno, California High Tech Los Angeles, Van Nuys, California McKinleyville High School, McKinleyville, California Hickory Hill, Thomson, Georgia National Orphan Train Complex, Concordia, Kansas Jackson Parish Library, Jonesboro, Louisiana Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm, Rochester Hills, Michigan Clayton High School, Clayton, Missouri Carson High School, Carson City, Nevada Lincoln High School, Jersey City, New Jersey Raritan Valley Community College, Branchburg, New Jersey Grand Avenue Middle School, Bellmore, New York Newcomers High School, Long Island City, New York North Rockland High School, Thiells, New York St. Joseph School, Kingston, New York Brandywine Heights High School, Mertztown, Pennsylvania Southside Middle School, Florence, South Carolina Sullivan Central High School, Blountville, Tennessee Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Houston, Texas Denton Public Library, Denton, Texas John Dubiski Career High School, Grand Prairie, Texas The Many Faces of George Washington Louisiana’s Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Burlington County Library, Westampton, New Jersey Tryon Palace, New Bern, North Carolina General Franks Institute & Museum, Hobart, Oklahoma 33 2015 Traveling Exhibitions, by State and Site California Hawaii Louisiana California Council for Social Studies, Oakland, The Progressive Era Escondido Charter High School, Escondido, Abraham Lincoln Fresno High School, Fresno, The Progressive Era Gardner Middle School, Temecula, Frederick Douglass High Tech Los Angeles, Van Nuys, The Progressive Era San Diego Public Library, San Diego, Civil War 150 Marina Village Middle School, El Dorado Hills, Emancipation and Its Legacies McKinleyville High School, McKinleyville, The Progressive Era Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, Freedom: A History of US Mount Miguel High School, Spring Valley, Frederick Douglass Redding School of the Arts, Redding, Frederick Douglass St. Andrew’s School, Saratoga, Frederick Douglass Sierra Vista Middle School, Covina, Looking at Lincoln Assets School, Honolulu, Emancipation and Its Legacies Brother Martin High School, New Orleans, Looking at Lincoln Jackson Parish Library, Jonesboro, The Progressive Era Judicial College Conference, New Orleans, Freedom Riders Louisiana State Bar Association, New Orleans, Freedom Riders Louisiana’s Old State Capitol, Baton Rouge, The Many Faces of George Washington St. Margaret Catholic School, Lake Charles, Looking at Lincoln Afro-American Heritage Center, Davenport, Emancipation and Its Legacies Alma College, Alma, Freedom Riders Rochester Hills Museum at Van Hoosen Farm, Rochester Hills, The Progressive Era Colorado Kansas Minnesota Colorado State University-Pueblo, Civil War 150 Bishop Carroll Catholic High School, Wichita, Frederick Douglass National Orphan Train Complex, Concordia, The Progressive Era Providence Academy, Plymouth, Alexander Hamilton Ramsey County Historical Society, St. Paul, Emancipation and Its Legacies Florida Enterprise Heritage Center and Museum, Enterprise, Civil War 150 Glenridge Middle School, Orlando, Frederick Douglass Mandel Public Library, West Palm Beach, Freedom Riders Georgia Arbor Station Elementary School, Douglasville, Frederick Douglass Hickory Hill, Thomson, The Progressive Era Legacy Museum on Main, LaGrange, Freedom: A History of US T. 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The project included a traveling panel exhibition drawn from the Gilder Lehrman Collection and a public programming initiative. Fifty sites across the country received funding to host the exhibition, and an additional 150 sites received grants to develop Civil War 150 public programming. The combined audience reached through Civil War 150 advertising, publicity, and programming surpassed 15 million. Mercer University in Macon, GA hosted the Civil War 150 exhibition and enjoyed a concert and program during their Homecoming Weekend. “ Without [Civil War 150] I never would have put together a Civil War-focused series of programs for my patrons, and they have overwhelmingly been ecstatic over the content of summer programming this grant allowed us to provide. . . . Any time my community is so interested in history that they start planning for next year, it is an incredible win.” —Kelly Sheahan, Ella Johnson Memorial Public Library District, Hampshire, IL 36 Participants at the Memphis Public Library discuss a film after a Gilder Lehrman-sponsored screening. Library Affiliate Program In 2014, the Gilder Lehrman Institute launched the Library Affiliate Program. This free program is a unique gateway to educational resources, events, and tools designed to help public librarians bring American history to life for students and teachers. Library Affiliates are eligible to apply for programming grants and scholarships, and they have free access to traveling exhibitions and online resources provided by the Institute. We continued to develop our network of public libraries in 2015, and more than one hundred libraries are now part of the program. We have also awarded grants to a select group of public libraries to host student-focused public programs on topics in American history. 37 Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle To mark the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, the National Endowment for the Humanities planned the initiative Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle. The NEH invited Gilder Lehrman to partner on this three-year project, the centerpiece of which is a set of four powerful documentary films: The Abolitionists, Slavery by Another Name, The Loving Story, and Freedom Riders. 473 sites, including public and academic libraries, were selected by competitive application to receive the films and a $1,200 stipend to plan public forums on the history of civil rights. The Institute developed site-support materials, hosted an orientation webinar, and manages the project. The Institute contributed historical documents as well as educational materials to the NEH Created Equal website, www. createdequal.neh.gov, which is linked to the Gilder Lehrman website. In 2015, the Created Equal program continued in full force across the nation: 223 sites have completed programming, and 250 sites have begun to host programming in their communities. Programming will conclude in August 2016. High school students at the Chesterfield County Public Library in Chesterfield,VA meeting Freedom Rider and former executive director of the SCLC Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker. “ By far the most constructive and moving aspect of the Created Equal project was the extent to which both college students and community members enjoyed having a dialogue about substantive civil rights issues. The humanities format fostered intergenerational conversations and enabled all participants to think critically about race in ways that were not always familiar to them. The importance of these conversations in supplementing, and even supplanting, formal secondary and postsecondary curricula was clear in conversations and evaluations.” — Director, Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Cincinnati, OH 38 AWARDS AND PRIZES National History Teacher of the Year In 2015, 43 new teachers were honored with the State History Teacher of the Year Award. They are among 595 teachers who have earned that recognition since 2004, when the program was launched with the support of First Lady Laura Bush. Since 2004, the Institute has honored the best K–12 American history teachers in the country. In 2015, more than 400 teachers were nominated for the award. The national winner is selected from among the state winners. The 2015 National History Teacher of the Year Award, co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Preserve America, was presented to Mary Huffman, a fifth grade teacher at Charles Pinckney Elementary School in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. Mrs. Huffman accepted the award from Robin Roberts, the co-anchor of ABC’s Good Morning America. Mary Huffman, center, accepts her award from Gilder Lehrman president James G. Basker and Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts. 2015 STATE HISTORY TEACHERS OF THE YEAR ALABAMA HAWAII MONTANA RHODE ISLAND Pick Elementary, Auburn Kainalu Elementary, Kailua Washington Elementary, Billings Hope Valley Elementary, Hope Valley Harrow Strickland Irene Yamashita Ruth Ferris Denise Moretti-Foggo ALASKA IDAHO NEBRASKA Barnette Magnet School, Fairbanks Cynthia Mann Elementary, Boise ARIZONA ILLINOIS Lewis &Clark Elementary, S. Sioux City Charles Pinckney Elementary, Mt. Pleasant Fireside Elementary, Phoenix Fox River Grove M.S., Fox River Grove Dayton Elementary, Dayton Nicole Sarrazin-Strong John McCutcheon Angela Mullen ARKANSAS Steven Helmick Jane Szybowicz INDIANA DeAnne Conn Don R. Roberts Elementary, Little Rock Model Elementary, Goshen Nicholas Kleve SOUTH CAROLINA Mary Huffman NEVADA Ashley Hogan NEW HAMPSHIRE TENNESSEE Kelly Willingham Nolan Elementary, Signal Mountain Steven Glazer TEXAS Crossroads Academy, Lyme Gayle Kidd CALIFORNIA KANSAS NEW JERSEY Doris Cullins-Lake Pointe Elementary, Rowlett Ygnacio Valley Elementary, Concord Sunflower Elementary, Paola Apshawa Elementary, West Milford UTAH Elk Meadows Elementary, South Jordan Kimberly Leyden Jolene Pennington Jaclyn Becker Rachel Van Orden COLORADO KENTUCKY NEW MEXICO Coronado Elementary, Littleton McNabb Elementary, Paducah Chelwood Elementary, Albuquerque VIRGINIA Deborah Marshall CONNECTICUT Jennifer Murrihy Geco Ross MAINE Cyndi Broyer Frank T. Wheeler Elementary, Plainville NewSuncook Elementary, Lovell DELAWARE MARYLAND Heritage Elementary, Wilmington Taylor Domenici Anne Highfield Sharon Sharp NEW YORK Timothy Miller Abigail Seeley Orange Hunt Elementary, Springfield Barton Elementary, Patchogue WYOMING NORTH DAKOTA Hulett Elementary, Hulett Ellen Ista Beth Marlatt Cecilton Elementary School, Cecilton Kindred Elementary, Kindred DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA MASSACHUSETTS OKLAHOMA Yu Ying School, Washington Provincetown School, Provincetown Little Axe Elementary, Norman Liberty Intermediate, Armed Forces-Europe Amanda Ingram FLORIDA Brian Lassiter David McGlothlin MICHIGAN Barbara Davis Astoria Park Elementary, Tallahassee Maire Elementary, Grosse Pointe Vanna Owens OREGON Sarah Segal Hood River M.S., Hood River GEORGIA MINNESOTA Crabapple Lane Elementary, Peachtree City Adams Spanish Magnet School, St. Paul Park Forest Elementary, State College Sally Meyer Brooke Haubrick Randi Dalton US TERRITORIES Mei Reedstrom Gregorio T. Camacho Elementary, Saipan PENNSYLVANIA Evelyn Evans 39 NATIONAL BOOK PRIZES George Washington Book Prize Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize Inaugurated in 2005, the George Washington Book Prize is an annual award of $50,000 recognizing the best book on George Washington or the founding era. The prize is co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute, Washington College, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. The Lincoln Prize is an annual award of $50,000 for the finest book on Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War era. Awarded since 1991, the prize is co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Gettysburg College. 2015 GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE WINNERS Nick Bunker Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America (Knopf ) FINALISTS: Richard S. Dunn A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Harvard University Press) François Furstenberg When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation (Penguin) Eric Nelson The Royalist Revolution: Monarchy and the American Founding (Harvard University Press) 2015 LINCOLN PRIZE WINNERS Harold Holzer Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion (Simon & Schuster) FINALISTS William Blair With Malice toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era (UNC Press) Richard Brookhiser Founders’ Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln (Basic Books) James B. Conroy Our One Common Country: Abraham Lincoln and the Hampton Roads Peace Conference of 1865 (Lyons Press) Jonathan W. White Emancipation, the Union Army, and the Reelection of Abraham Lincoln (LSU Press) Joshua Zeitz Lincoln’s Boys: John Hay, John Nicolay, and the War for Lincoln’s Image (Penguin) Frederick Douglass B ook Prize The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is an annual prize of $25,000 recognizing the best book on slavery or abolition. Awarded since 1999, the prize is co-sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University. Gilder Lehrman co-founder Lewis E. Lehrman greets Lin-Manuel Miranda and Luis Miranda while Student Advisory Council member Yarelis Nunez looks on. SPECIAL ACHIE VEMENT AWARD On December 14, Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda received a special George Washington Prize. In the words of the Washington Book Prize Committee: “In capturing the hearts of all who have seen it, Hamilton has clearly made the lessons of our Founding accessible and engaging while hewing to historical fact. We honor Lin-Manuel Miranda with a Special Achievement Award for this extraordinary accomplishment.” 40 2015 FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOOK PRIZE WINNERS Ada Ferrer Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution (Cambridge University Press) FINALISTS: Ezra Greenspan William Wells Brown: An African American Life (W. W. Norton) Michael Guasco Slaves and Englishmen: Human Bondage in the Early Modern Atlantic World (University of Pennsylvania Press) SCHOLARLY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM The Gilder Lehrman Institute offers annual short-term research fellowships in the amount of $3000 each to doctoral candidates, college and university faculty at every rank, and independent scholars working in the field of American history. These fellowships support scholars who intend to conduct research at archives in New York City. Since 1994, Gilder Lehrman has awarded a total of 623 fellowships. In 2015, Gilder Lehrman received 53 fellowship applications. The Fellowship Committee selected 10 Fellows, including seven doctoral candidates, two university professors, and one independent scholar. The 2015 Fellows’ projects, listed below, span a wide range of topics, including race, slavery, and emancipation; the Revolutionary War; the Civil War; 19th-century industrialization; and the status of refugees in the United States. THE 2015 GILDER LEHRMAN FELLOWS Westenley Alcenat Max Flomen PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University “The Elusive Quest: Black Emigration to Haiti and the Struggle for Full Citizenship in a White Republic, 1815–1865” PhD Candidate, Department of History, UCLA “Of Dogs and Chattel: War and Slavery in the Texas-Louisiana Borderlands, 1760–1840” Stephen Brumwell Award-winning writer and historian “Honor and Treason: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty” Ruma Chopra Associate Professor of History, San Jose State University “The Jamaican Trail of Tears: Maroons in the Anti-Slavery Era” Ben Davidson PhD Candidate, Department of History, New York University “Freedom’s Generation: Coming of Age in the Era of Emancipation” Anthony Di Lorenzo PhD Candidate, Department of History, Loyola University Chicago “Transatlantic Radicalism and Antislavery Politics in the Early Republic” William D. Hickox PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Kansas “Military Recruitment in New York State during the American Civil War” Westenley Alcenat Maria R. Montalvo PhD Candidate, Department of History, Rice University “The Louisiana Guarantee: The Law, the Market, and the Enslaved in the Antebellum South” Evan Taparata PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota “No Asylum for Mankind: Defining Refugee Status in the United States, 1787–1924” Michael Zakim Professor of History, Tel Aviv University “Inventing Industrial America at the Crystal Palace” Ruma Chopra Many Gilder Lehrman Fellows have made major contributions to the study of American history that would not have been possible without the research opportunities afforded by the fellowship. In July 2015, Wil Verhoeven, Professor of American Culture and Cultural Theory at the University of Groningen and recipient of a Gilder Lehrman Scholarly Fellowship in 2013, was awarded the inaugural Early American Literature book prize for Americomania and the French Revolution Debate in Britain, 1789–1802 (Cambridge University Press, 2013). As a Fellow, Professor Verhoeven spent a month in New York doing research for Americomania at the Gilder Lehrman Collection, which he described as “packed with documents that are a must for me to inspect.” The Gilder Lehrman Institute is glad to have funded his project and congratulates him on his achievement. Michael Zakim 41 HISTORY SCHOLAR AWARDS The Gilder Lehrman History Scholar Award honors top undergraduates majoring in American history and American studies. In 2015, sixteen college seniors were chosen for their combination of academic excellence and commitment to improving their communities. This year’s cohort represented a wide variety of backgrounds, including one former Marine, two student-athletes, and two first-generation college students. The 2015 Award recipients, led by Martha Hodes, Professor of History at New York University, were taken on private tours of several New York City archives, including the Gilder Lehrman Collection and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. The group also met with eminent scholars Kenneth T. Jackson and David Blight to discuss careers in the field of history. The program culminated in an award ceremony held at the Princeton Club in New York City to honor the winners. The 2015 History Scholars, juniors and seniors in college, relax after a day spent visiting several New York City archives. 2015 RECIPIENTS OF THE GILDER LEHRMAN HISTORY SCHOLAR AWARD Mariah Bender Wesley Hale Andrew Murphree Andrew Spate Saint Louis University and Oak Park, Illinois University of Massachusetts Boston and Medford, Massachusetts Liberty University and Medina, Tennessee West Virginia Wesleyan College and West Newton, Pennsylvania George Washington University and Dayton, New Jersey Bentley Lloyd Ohio State University and Ashland, Ohio Kaitlin Costley Cheyanne Lozano University of Georgia and Bowdon, Georgia University of Texas at El Paso and El Paso, Texas Hong Deng Gao John Menard Pomona College and Brooklyn, New York Washington State University and Yakima, Washington Caitlyn Borghi 42 Mount St. Joseph University and Oahu, Hawaii Michael Rueger Sarah Sadlier Stanford University and Gig Harbor, Washington Andrew Sayer Providence College and San Diego, California Nicole VanderMeer Emory University and Bainbridge Island, Washington Devin Venden University of Wisconsin Oshkosh and Waterloo, Wisconsin Darbyshire Witek Georgia College and Lilburn, Georgia GILDER LEHRMAN CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SLAVERY, RESISTANCE, AND ABOLITION Founded in 1998 by Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman and hosted by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, the Center operates under the guidance of David W. Blight, Class of 1954 Professor of American History at Yale. The Center hosts scholars, sponsors lectures and conferences, and provides teaching resources on the history of slavery and abolition. Frederick Douglass B ook Prize Jointly sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, this annual prize of $25,000 recognizes the best book on slavery or abolition. WINNERS OF THE FREDERICK DOUGLASS BOOK PRIZE 2015 Ada Ferrer 2007 Christopher Leslie Brown Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution Moral Capital: Foundations of British Abolitionism 2014 Christopher Hager 2006 Rebecca J. Scott Word by Word: Emancipation and the Act of Writing Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery 2013 Sydney Nathans 2005 Laurent Dubois To Free a Family: The Journey of Mary Walker A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean 2012 James Sweet Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World 2004 Jean Fagan Yellin 2011 Stephanie McCurry 2003 Seymour Drescher Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation 2010 CO-WINNERS: Judith A. Carney and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World Harriet Jacobs: A Life 2002 CO-WINNERS: Robert Harms The Diligent: A Voyage through the Worlds of the Slave Trade Siddharth Kara John Stauffer Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery The Black Hearts of Men: Radical Abolitionists and the Transformation of Race 2009 Annette Gordon-Reed The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family 2008 Stephanie E. Smallwood Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora 2001 David Blight Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory 2000 David Eltis The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas 1999 Ira Berlin Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery International Conference, Fall 2015 Antislavery Republics: The Politics of Abolition in the Spanish Atlantic Seventeenth Annual International Conference, October 30–31, 2015 This conference focused on the history of slavery and antislavery in the Spanish Atlantic world, looking beyond the national or imperial focus that has characterized abolitionist studies. It traced the connections of mainland Spanish America with Brazil, Africa, Haiti, Britain, the Spanish Caribbean, and the United States during the 19th century. World B ibliography of Slavery and Abolition The Center continues to manage the World Bibliography of Slavery and Abolition, formerly edited by Professor Joseph Miller at the University of Virginia. 43 DEVELOPMENT FINANCIAL SUMMARY The Gilder Lehrman Institute has balanced its budget every year since its founding in 1994. Total revenues for fiscal year 2015 were $4.06 million, allocated as follows: Revenues FY 2015 Restricted Contributions 34% Gala Revenue 28% Course Enrollments 14% Unrestricted Contributions 13% Educational Services 8% Other Income 3% Expenditures FY 2015 Teacher Programs 44% Classroom Resources and School Programs 27% Administration 13% Fundraising 10% Scholarly and Academic Prizes 44 6% 2015 DONORS Kenneth S. Abraham The Achelis and Bodman Foundations Carl Ackerman Roger and Elizabeth Ailes Elizabeth Aldrich Eleanor M. Alger Altman Foundation Amazon Smile The American Revolution Center Christine Anderson Jon W. 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GALA On May 11 at the New York Palace, Gilder Lehrman’s fourth annual Gala honored Robert A. Kinsley, founder and longtime chairman of the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum; Diana and Joseph DiMenna, generous philanthropists and co-founders of the DiMenna Children’s History Museum; and David Brion Davis, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian of slavery and Sterling Professor of American History Emeritus at Yale University. The program featured several students from Gilder Lehrman Affiliate Schools. Kathy Soba of the High School of American Studies (Bronx, New York) opened the evening by welcoming the guests. Orlando Leach, Jr. of Abraham Lincoln High School (Brooklyn, New York) recognized Professor David Brion Davis, with Javin Michael of Harlem Academy (NYC) honoring Diana and Joseph DiMenna. Mitchell Teper of Stuyvesant High School (NYC) recognized Robert A. Kinsley. Elisabeth Hyde of the Academy of American Studies (Queens, New York) introduced Gilder Lehrman trustee and Pulitzer Prize–winning author David McCullough. Proceeds from the annual gala support the Institute’s programs and resources for teachers and students. Gilder Lehrman Affiliate School students Mitchell Teper, Javin Michael, Kathy Soba, Elizabeth Hyde, and Orlando Leach Jr. 47 OPPORTUNITIES FOR GIVING The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is a 501(c)(3) public charity supported through the generosity of individuals, corporations, and foundations. Your fully tax-deductible gift improves history education in classrooms nationwide and propels countless students to greater educational and career achievements. Since our inception we have helped thousands of students and educators, and with your support we can reach even more. 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Tribute Gifts The Gilder Lehrman Institute is proud to accept gifts made in memory of loved ones or in honor of family, friends, or special occasions. If you would like to recognize or remember someone who had a love of American history and education, you can donate online or send us a letter with the name of the person in whose name you want to make the gift, the occasion (if any), and the name and address of any person who should receive a notification of your gift. The amount of your gift remains confidential. Q uestions? Student Advisory Council member Tabitha Wilson, a New York City high school senior. 48 Call the Development Office at 646-366-9666 (ext. 20) or email development @gilderlehrman.org. IN-KIND CONTRIBUTORS AND PARTNERS The Institute partners in various ways with institutions, universities, corporations, organizations, and museums to develop programs, symposia, seminars, exhibitions, and educational initiatives. In 2013, the Institute was selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities as a partner for a major national initiative, Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle, which will continue through 2016. Our four-year NEH initiative, Civil War 150: The Civil War Told by Those Who Lived It, in partnership with the Library of America, concluded in 2015. Whether our collaborations are one-time or ongoing, we seek with every partnership to bring together the highest-quality materials and talent and to deliver the best and most useful resources to teachers and students of American history as well as the general public. Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum James Madison’s Montpelier Adam Matthew Digital John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Adams State University John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Library of America American Historical Association Morgan Library & Museum American Revolution Center Museum of the City of New York Archdiocese of New York National Coalition for History Baseline Theatrical National Constitution Center Center of the American West at the University of Colorado National Endowment for the Humanities Civil War Institute at Gettysburg College Civil War Round Table of New York Council of Independent Colleges C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College EDSITEment Evansville African American Museum George Washington’s Mount Vernon Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation Gettysburg National Military Park Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition National History Club National History Day National Park Service National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation National Underground Railroad Freedom Center National WWII Museum NBC Universal New-York Historical Society New York City Department of Education Organization of American Historians Preserve America Pritzker Military Library Google Cultural Institute The Rockefeller Foundation Hamilton Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples HISTORY® Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Smithsonian National Museum of American History Thomas Jefferson Foundation USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute WGBH (Boston) 49 INTERNSHIPS In 2015, nine high school and college students were selected to work as interns. Gilder Lehrman interns worked directly with staff across several programs to assist in the Institute’s work and to acquire new skills. They participated in weekly enrichment activities at the Gilder Lehrman Collection that built their knowledge of historical content and exposed them to various professional tracks. SUMMER 2015 INTERNS Interns reviewing documents at the Gilder Lehrman Collection Clinton Kunhardt Crystal Song Macalester College Columbia University Anna McDonald Gabriel Strauss The Brearley School Columbia University Sam Reiner Taira Sullivan Syracuse University Washington College Elizabeth Sack Daniela Tropani Nightingale-Bamford School Barnard College Martha Slomczewski York College of Pennsylvania “My internship at the Gilder Lehrman Collection has truly been a fantastic experience. I acquired several skills, such as conserving primary sources, transcribing historical manuscripts, giving educational presentations, and cataloguing archival materials.” —Daniela Tropani, 2015 Gilder Lehrman intern Gilder Lehrman’s 2015 interns at the Gilder Lehrman Collection. 50 LEADERSHIP BOARD OF TRUSTEES Richard Gilder, Co-Chair David McCullough Lewis E. Lehrman, Co-Chair John L. Nau, III James G. Basker, President Robert H. Niehaus S. Andrew Banks Russell Pennoyer John Britton Victoria Phillips Robert Daum Shaiza Rizavi Joseph DiMenna Dorothy Stapleton Daniel P. Jordan Gilder Lehrman trustee David McCullough Gilder Lehrman co-founders Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman. Robert H. Niehaus visits with students at the Frederick Douglass Prize ceremony. 51 PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL Formed in October 2013, the President’s Council is a select group of supporters who provide insight on strategic issues facing the organization—including programs, fundraising, communications, and longterm planning. The President’s Council is composed of diverse individuals from many fields who have broad perspectives on history education in the United States. The Council provides Gilder Lehrman with access to new networks, exposure to a diverse set of ideas, and insight into the priorities of parents of K–12 students. Charles Atkins Amanda Jones Chief Executive Officer Atkins Capital Strategies LLC Trustee Boardman Cottage and The Beacon Project Barry Bausano Noorain Khan President Deutsche Bank Securities Program Officer, Office of the President Ford Foundation Mike Bingle Thomas D. Lehrman Managing Partner SilverLake Partner Haystack Partners A. Dev Chodry Brian McDonald Managing Member Scoggin Capital Management Managing Director Houlihan Lokey Joseph Coffey John Morning Principal Villency Design Group Member New York State Council on the Arts Dixie De Luca Hugh Nguyen Former Executive Aon Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer ClearServe Megan Duff Griff Norquist Doctoral candidate Columbia University Teachers College Senior Vice President Moelis & Company Andrew Fentress John C. O’Hara Managing Director and Head of Special Situations Strategy Napier Park Global Capital Senior Advisor and Managing Director Rockefeller & Co. Regina Gannon Managing Director, Client Relationship Executive JP Morgan Elizabeth Herbst-Brady Executive Vice President of Advertisement Sales Strategy MTVN’s Music & Logo Entertainment Groups, Viacom Alan Jones Managing Director and Head of Global Private Equity Morgan Stanley 52 Alex Robertson President and Chief Operating Officer Tiger Management, LLC REPRESENTING THE GILDER LEHRMAN BOARD OF TRUSTEES Shaiza Rizavi Partner Gilder, Gagnon, Howe & Co. ADVISORY BOARD Joyce Appleby Kenneth L. Burns Richard Ekman Professor of History Emerita University of California, Los Angeles Filmmaker Florentine Films President Council of Independent Colleges Ric Burns Joseph J. Ellis Author and Historian Filmmaker Steeplechase Films Professor Emeritus of History Mount Holyoke College Edward L. Ayers Colin Calloway David Eltis Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities, University Professor, and President Emeritus University of Richmond John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies Dartmouth College Robert W. Woodruff Professor Emeritus of History Emory University Thomas H. Bender Vincent Cannato University Professor of the Humanities New York University Associate Professor of History University of Massachusetts Boston Carol Berkin Peter Carmichael Presidential Professor of History Emerita Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York Director Civil War Institute, Gettysburg College Rick Atkinson Judy Roth Berkowitz Andrew Carroll Chair Center for Educational Innovation Chancellor Fellow Chapman University, and Director, Center for American War Letters Lewis W. Bernard Richard Carwardine Chairman and Founder Classroom, Inc. President Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford Victoria Bjorklund Retired Partner Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP David W. Blight Class of 1954 Professor of American History Yale University, and Director, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition David Brion Davis Sterling Professor of History Emeritus Yale University, and Director Emeritus, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition Drew Gilpin Faust President Harvard University John Fea Professor of American History and Chair, Department of History Messiah College David Hackett Fischer University Professor and Earl Warren Professor of History Brandeis University Seymour Fliegel President and Senior Fellow Center for Educational Innovation Eric Foner DeWitt Clinton Professor of History Columbia University Ellen V. Futter President American Museum of Natural History John Demos Gary Gallagher Gabor S. Boritt Samuel Knight Professor Emeritus History Yale University John L. Nau III Professor in the History of the American Civil War University of Virginia Professor of History Emeritus Gettysburg College Andrew Delbanco Henry Louis Gates Jr. Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies Columbia University Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University Richard Brookhiser Senior Editor National Review Christopher Leslie Brown Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and Professor of History Columbia University Seymour Drescher Distinguished University Professor of History and Sociology University of Pittsburgh 53 Robert P. George Thomas LeBien Elihu Rose McCormick Chair in Jurisprudence, and Founding Director James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University Executive Editor-at-Large Harvard University Press Vice Chairman Rose Associates, Inc., and Adjunct Professor of Military History Columbia University Glenda Gilmore Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University Chief Executive Officer Coursera, and President Emeritus Yale University Patricia Nelson Limerick Vicki Ruiz Distinguished Professor of History and Chair of Chicano/Latino Studies University of California, Irvine Michael Serber Author and Historian Professor of History and Faculty Director and Chair of the Board Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Boulder Annette Gordon-Reed Stephanie McCurry Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History Harvard Law School, and Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Professor of History Columbia University Professor of English and African and African American Studies Harvard University Joseph C. McNay Jeremi Suri Chairman Essex Investment Management Company Professor and Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs University of Texas at Austin Doris Kearns Goodwin Allen C. Guelzo Henry R. Luce Professor of the Civil War Era and Director, Civil War Era Studies Gettysburg College James M. McPherson Roger Hertog Donald Miller Vice Chairman Emeritus AllianceBernstein John Henry MacCracken Professor of History Lafayette College James O. Horton Benjamin Banneker Professor Emeritus of American Studies and History George Washington University Kenneth T. Jackson Jacques Barzun Professor of History and the Social Sciences and Director Herbert H. Lehman Center for the Study of American History, Columbia University David M. Kennedy Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, Emeritus Stanford University Roger Kimball Editor and Publisher The New Criterion 54 Richard C. Levin George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of American History Emeritus Princeton University Steven Mintz Professor of History University of Texas at Austin, and Executive Director, Institute for Transformational Learning University of Texas System Peter Onuf Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History Emeritus University of Virginia Andrew O’Shaughnessy Saunders Director Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, Monticello, and Professor of American History University of Virginia Former Principal Academy of American Studies John Stauffer Alan Taylor Thomas Jefferson Chair in American History University of Virginia Odd Arne Westad S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Richard White Margaret Byrne Professor of American History Stanford University Douglas Wilson George A. Lawrence Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, and Co-director, Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College Gordon S. Wood Alva O. Way University Professor Emeritus Brown University STUDENT ADVISORY COUNCIL 12TH GR ADE 9TH GR ADE COUNCIL ALUMNI Kristjan Tomasson Martha Abogabye Ethan Anderson Trinity School Bard High School - Early College Tabitha Wilson Javin Michael Cornell University ’18 High School of American Studies ’14 Stuyvesant High School Riverdale Country School 11TH GR ADE Kayla Ryan Trinity School Sarah Hirschfield Elisabeth Hyde University of Pennsylvania ’19 Academy of American Studies ’15 Masha Ikromova Ethical Culture Fieldston School 8TH GR ADE Mohamed Kawy Lara Bamberger Newcomers High School The Chapin School Jocelyn Perez Peter De Luca Abraham Lincoln High School Saint David’s School Hampshire College ’19 Abraham Lincoln High School ’15 Briana Rosario Kijani-Ali Gaulman Sydney Lewis Urban Assembly School for Emergency Management Harlem Academy Artie Street, Jr. Maxwell Lawrence Trinity School Academy of American Studies Anna Usvitsky Yarelis Nunez Harlem Academy Stuyvesant High School 10TH GR ADE Andrew Lewis Collegiate School Khloe Smith Hellenic Charter School Barnard College ’18 Abraham Lincoln High School ’14 Orlando Leach DePauw University ’19 Academy of American Studies ’15 Jonathan Peters University at Albany, SUNY ’18 All Hallows High School ’14 Mahir Riaz 7TH GR ADE Columbia University ’19 The Collegiate School ’15 Annabelle Krause Sarah Stroud Bronxville High School St. John’s University ’18 The Academy of American Studies ’14 Jack Seibert Stanford University ’19 Packer Collegiate Institute ’15 Emily Shah Stanford ’18 Trinity School ’14 Mitchell Teper NYU Stern School of Business ’19 Stuyvesant High School ’15 The Gilder Lehrman Student Advisory Council reviews the online AP US History Study Guide. 55 DEPARTMENTS AND STAFF James G. Basker Ronald Nash Peter Shea President basker@gilderlehrman.org Senior Education Fellow nash@gilderlehrman.org Multimedia Producer shea@gilderlehrman.org B EG I NNI NG JA NUA RY 2 0 1 6 : Daniel Pecoraro Stephanie Townrow Education Program Assistant pecoraro@gilderlehrman.org Digital Humanities Producer townrow@gilderlehrman.org Sasha Rolon Pereira Lance Warren THE GILDER LEHRMAN COLLECTION Director, Hamilton Project and Associate Director of Education pereira@gilderlehrman.org Director of Online Courses warren@gilderlehrman.org Alinda Borell Steven R. 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