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Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, in US; Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, in US; Albany Institute of History & Art; Pan American Institute of Geography and History; Institute for Historical Review, in US (Holocaust denial) Institute of History of Ukraine, in Ukraine; Institute of history, ethnology and ...
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History was founded in New York City by businessmen-philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis E. Lehrman in 1994 to promote the study and interest in American history. [1] The Institute serves teachers, students, scholars, and the general public. Its activities include the following: creating history ...
The institute traces its origin in the Institute of Albanian Studies of April 1940. In 1946, the Institute of Scientific Research (Albanian: Instituti i Kërkimeve Shkencore) took over, and was renamed in 1948 to Institute of Sciences (Albanian: Instituti i Shkencave). As its activity spread, it split in 1955 as the Institute of History and ...
The school was founded in 1921, when the American Red Cross Youth Corps founded the Albanian Vocational School, which was Albania's first and for a long time only such institution. From 1921 until 1933 it was financed by the American Junior Red Cross, small grants from the Albanian government and income from own commercial activities. It ...
The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (OI) is an independent research organization located in Williamsburg, Virginia, sponsored by William & Mary and Colonial Williamsburg. Founded in 1943, the OI supports the scholars and scholarship of vast early America—a term used to describe the capacious histories of North ...
Wanting to learn English, he picked up a free booklet of Abraham Lincoln's writings. Captivated by Lincoln's mastery of the language and his rise from poverty to the presidency, Boritt began studying American history and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Yankton College in 1962 and a master's degree from the University of South Dakota in ...
Executive officers of the American Historical Association at the time of the association's incorporation by the U.S. Congress photographed during their annual meeting on December 30, 1889, in Washington, D.C. Seated (left to right) are: William Poole, Justin Winsor, Charles Kendall Adams (President), George Bancroft, John Jay, and Andrew Dickson White, Standing (left to right) are: Herbert B ...
He is also the president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, founder of the Oxbridge Academic Programs and more recently of Oxford Academia, [4] a fellow of the Society of American Historians, and a member of the American Antiquarian Society. He was elected to the board of the American Association of Rhodes Scholars in 2007. [5]