The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction

FAIN: ES-288107-22

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (New York, NY 10036-5900)
Denver Alexander Brunsman (Project Director: February 2022 to April 2025)

A two-week, residential institute for 36 K-8 teachers on American history from the colonial era through Reconstruction, to be held in Washington, D.C.

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (GLI) is requesting a Summer Institutes for K-12 Educators Grant for an innovative two-week residential summer institute (Level II) on American history from the late fifteenth to the nineteenth century for 36 elementary and middle school teachers. Scheduled for July 9-22, 2023, “The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction” will take place in person at The George Washington University and build on the successful Level I virtual NEH institute of the same name during July 2021. “The Making of America: Colonial Era to Reconstruction” is purposefully broad in scope to address the needs of underserved K-8 educators, many of whom have had little or no coursework in American history. The institute will focus on the people, ideas, and events that made America into a cultural, social, and political reality.