its website, worked to "enrich higher education by creating the right conditions for vigorous discussion and contemplative scholarship—particularly within the scope of American Studies." The center provided a variety of programming, including an annual two-week summer institute at Princeton University for young academics, and maintained an online library of teaching resources. "I learned at Yale how much can be gained from the close interaction of students with historians," Lehrman noted in a magazine interview. "We have tried to replicate that model at the Lehrman Institute, at the Gilder Lehrman Institute, and most recently with the Lehrman American Studies Center at ISI." References External links "A Dollar as Good as Gold", Testimony before the United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, March 17, 2011 Right Web|Profile|Lewis E. Lehrman, Right Web, Accessed February 3, 2006. Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History New-York Historical Society Prizing History: American Heritage Magazine 1938 births Harvard University alumni The Heritage Foundation Living people New York (state) Republicans American bankers National Humanities Medal recipients The Hill School alumni Yale University alumni