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The Veterans Legacy Program provides teachers with resources to commemorate US Veterans and Service Members through discovering and sharing their stories. This PD series, which is based on live sessions conducted on Zoom, features lectures by scholars along with expert advice for teaching these topics from the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s master teachers. Topics covered include the experiences of Revolutionary War soldiers; Union and Confederate soldiers during the Civil War and the years following; African American soldiers in the Civil War, WWII, and the Vietnam War; and army nurses during the Vietnam War. This is a free program.

COURSE CONTENT:

• Five lectures with various scholars of American history

• Two pedagogy sessions with Master Teachers Gena Oppenheim and Nathan McAlister

• A certificate of completion for seven hours of professional development

• A video compilation of National Cemetery virtual tours

Course Access: After your purchase, you may access your course by signing into the Gilder Lehrman website and visiting the homepage. Click on the MY COURSES link in the navigation bar.

Visit this page to learn more about the Veterans Legacy Program.

Questions? Email education@gilderlehrman.org.

SCHOLARS:

Lisa Andersen (Professor of History, The Juilliard School), Nikki Brown (Associate Professor of History and African American & Africana Studies, University of Kentucky), Robert McCoy (Associate Professor of History, Washington State University), Sarah J. Purcell (L. F. Parker Professor of History, Grinnell College), and Kara Dixon Vuic (LCpl. Benjamin W. Schmidt Professor of War, Conflict, and Society in 20th-Century)