The National Institute of American History & Democracy (NIAHD) offers immersive, hands-on, interdisciplinary classes that bring history to life and connect students to the past. Through a partnership with the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, students learn about American history in the places where it happened.
Learning on the ground
- Travel to historic sites and museums
- Work with primary sources and material culture
- Collaboration with historians, archaeologists, historic interpreters, architectural historians, and preservationists
These experiences connect scholarship with public engagement and professional practice.
Your support helps
- Support undergraduate and graduate field-based learning
- Fund transportation, course materials and staffing
- Provide tuition assistance that sustains socioeconomic diversity
By supporting NIAHD, you help students learn history where it happened and gain the skills needed to preserve and interpret the nation’s past for future generations.
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