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the gilder lehrman institute is rather young. it was founded in 1994. the mission is to promote the knowledge and understanding of american history through programs and resources. havee present time, we 65,000 documents in the gilder lehrman collection which is the core of our programming. the collection is drawn upon to do programs come outreach, to contribute to a website visited by 7 million people, and also to support a network of 6500 affiliates to whom we send materials on a monthly basis, as well as teachers and seminars. it is the collection that really gives us the capacity and ability to bring people face to face with primary documents and in understanding the people, events, and controversies that shaped our history over time. i would theater term, like to say, "inter-hamilton." based on our work over the past 20 years or so, in 2015 the groups came and talked to the institute about developing a hamilton education program. with funding from the rockefeller foundation, we developed an incredibly important program that has title i students come

the national constitution center and the gilder lehrman institute of american history co-hosted thisvent. thanks to the national constitution center for partnering with the gilder lehrman institute to present this town hall. the senior curator of exhibitions and the project director for revisiting the founding era. this town hall is the first event of a three-your project -- three-year project

the national constitution center and the gilder lehrman institute of american history co-hosted this 80-minute event. >> thanks to the national constitution center for partnering with the gilder lehrman institute to present this town hall. the senior curator of exhibitions and the project director for revisiting the founding era. this town hall is the first event of a three-year project to outreach to 100 libraries in 50 states in which we will present programs that invite the community to talk about the founding era and programs and issues people are talking about today.