North Hills High School Designated as Gilder Lehrman Affiliate

North Hills High School has become one of only three public school buildings in Allegheny County to be selected by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History as an affiliate school.

The institute’s affiliate school program is a special gateway to education resources, events and tools designed to bring American history to life in the classroom. Only 58 public and private school buildings in Pennsylvania havebeen named affiliate schools.

North Hills High School history teacher Angela Costanzo spearheaded the building’s involvement in the program.

The program is a network of schools that are committed to promoting history education. The program offers schools and teachers access to free resources, invitations to events and web tools designed to enhance the teaching of American history.

As an affiliate school, the high school also has special access to The Gilder Lehrman Collection that contains more than 60,000 documents detailing the political and social history of the United States. The collection’s holdings include handwritten letters, diaries, maps, photographs, printed books and pamphlets ranging from 1493 through modern times.

The program is funded by a We the People Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and is free for all schools.

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