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2010 Summer Seminars for Teachers

The following information was received from Gettysburg College in December 2009:

Gilder Lehrman Announces 2010 Summer Seminars for Teachers
including Seminar by Gettysburg College’s Allen Guelzo

Applications Now Open for K-12 Educators

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has released the list of its thirty-nine history seminars for K-12 history, social studies, and English teachers during the summer of 2010. Taught by the nation’s most renowned history professors on college campuses nationwide and in the U.K., the one-week seminars for 2010 cover a broad range of historical and cultural themes.

A highlight of the series will be Allen Guelzo at Gettysburg College, with a series of lectures centered on Abraham Lincoln and his World. This seminar will be an exploration of Lincoln’s mind – of the great intellectual problems he faced, of the books he read, of the ideas he defended, and of the kind of democracy he thought was worth saving. And at the end, we will come to know Lincoln, not just as the greatest of presidents, but as a man of great ideas as well.

For more information on Abraham Lincoln and his World, click here.

Designed to deepen teachers’ knowledge of topics in American history, Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars empower teachers by bringing them into contact with top scholars and providing resources and strategies to take back to their classrooms.

For the complete list of all thirty-nine seminars, click here.

Each year, more than 1,000 educators attend Gilder Lehrman Summer Seminars and return home with new knowledge and a renewed passion for teaching American history. Stacy Calhoun, an eighth grade U.S. history teacher at North Laurel Middle School in Kentucky, recently shared with the Sentinel-Echo her experience in Philip Morgan’s seminar "Freedom and Slavery in the Atlantic World" at Johns Hopkins University: “It was amazing. We studied with some of the best professors in the history field ... I think there were 25 selected out of 300 applicants.” She added, “We often just hear of slavery in terms of numbers. We never get to learn about their journey ... It gives you a whole new perspective.”

Educators K-12 and National Park Service interpreters are eligible. Seminars are limited to thirty participants by competitive application. Public school teachers are awarded a full fellowship, which includes room and board, books, and a stipend to offset travel costs. Independent school teachers are eligible for fellowships of up to 50% of the total fees. Graduate credit is available. For information and to apply online, click here.

Applications must be submitted by February 15, 2010.

For more information contact Catherine Bain, Administrative Assistant, Civil War Era Studies & The Gettysburg Semester, Campus Box 413, 300 North Washington Street, Gettysburg, PA 17325. Telephone: 717/337-6598; fax: 717/337-6597; email: cbain@gettysburg.edu.

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