Saturday Academies
provide free elective courses for high school and middle
school students on Saturday mornings. For more information,
contact Anthony Napoli at the Gilder Lehrman Institute
at napoli@gilderlehrman.org.
Abraham Lincoln High School Saturday
Academy
(Brooklyn, New York)
Dion Denardo, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment:
84 students.
Courses Offered: SAT Prep; Brooklyn
Walking Tour; Night at the Museum; Military History: The Study of Weapons;
The History of Street Games of NYC.
Contact Number: 718-372-5474
Academy of American Studies Saturday
Academy
(Queens, New York)
Nina Cohen, Director. Founded
2004. Enrollment: 99 students.
Courses Offered:
Conquer the SAT;
History of American Film;
American Online: The History of the Internet;
New York City: A Poetic Landscape;
The Roaring Twenties;
Labor Unions in America;
New York in the Civil War.
Contact Number: 718-361-8786
Algiers Charter Schools Association
(New Orleans, LA)
Joseph Weilbaecher, Director. Founded 2007. Enrollment: 41
students.
Courses Offered: Treme and History of Jazz in New Orleans;
The 1811 New Orleans Slave Riot;
New Orleans Art & Architecture.
All Hallows Saturday Academy
(Bronx, New York)
John Burke, Director. Founded 2002. Enrollment: 292
students.
Courses Offered: Comics in American Culture;
American Art History;
A Science Odyssey;
Twentieth Century History through Music;
The American Revolution;
The History of American Sports;
The United States and the Holocaust.
Contact Number: 718-293-4545
Andover High School Saturday Academy
(Andover, Kansas)
Joel Schaefer, Director. Founded 2011.
Courses Offered: Presidential Assassinations; Music in American History; The Wild West; Serial Killers in US History; AP US History Review
Contact Number: 316-266-8800
Bishop Kearney High School Saturday Academy
(Brooklyn, New York)
Sister Rosemarie Baglivio, CSJ, Director. Founded 2008. Enrollment:
142 Students
Courses Offered:
American Theater;
Art in American History;
Fun with American Portraits;
Decade of Change;
The United States Constitution;
Famous American Catholics - Impact and Legacy;
His/Her Story in America;
Presidents During Key Movements in American History;
Contact Number: 718-236-62363 ext. 262
Brooklyn Historical Society
(Brooklyn, New York)
Andrea Del Valle, Director. Founded 2007.
Courses
Offered: Exploring Brooklyn History Through Arts; Making SAT Prep AP US Prep
Contact Number:
718-222-4111 Ext.222
Grants Pass High School Saturday Academy (Grants Pass, Oregon)
Jeri Cowager, Director. Founded 2012. Enrollment:
110 students.
Courses Offered: SAT Prep; AP US History Review; A Brief History of United States Science; Steinbeck and Southwestern Oregon
Contact Number: 541-474-5710
Heights
High School Saturday Academy (Wichita, Kansas)
Christopher Kemp, Director. Founded 2006. Enrollment:
110 students.
Courses Offered: AP US History Review; Popular Culture in Modern America;
10 Years of DBQ; Jazz Music: An Historical Survey of American Art Form Mobs; Militias and Gangs: Extremism in American History Crimes and Punishment in America;
The Application of the 4th and 8th amendments in noted trials.
Contact Number: 316–973-1400
Monsignor Farrell High School
Saturday Academy
(Staten Island, New York)
Edward Hynes, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 292
students.
Courses Offered: America's Greatest Battles; American Culture; The Bill of Rights; Baseball: The National Pastime; Entrepreneurs and Inventors; Great Hollywood Movies in American Culture; The History of Comic Books in America; The History of Sports in America; Hollywood vs. History; The Computer's Effect on American Society.
Contact Number:
718-987-2900
Museum of the
City of New York (New York, New York)
Joanna Steinberg , Director. Founded 2006. Enrollment:
220 students.
Courses Offered:
The Wild West and Its Many Voices: From Reputation to Reality; Voices of Resistance: Photography and Poetry of the Civil Rights; Immigrant Identities in American Theatre; Urban Design and New York City: From Streets to Skyscrapers; Kaplan SAT Review
Contact
Number: 917-492-3401
New Dorp High School Saturday Academy
(Staten Island, New York)
Dina Zoleo, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 225 students.
Courses Offered: American History "what if?";
American History vs. Hollywood;
American Culinary Arts;
American Business Law;
Experiencing American History through Music;
SAT Prep.
Contact Number: 718-667-8686
New-York Historical Society Saturday
Academy
(Manhattan, New York)
Betsy Gibbons, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 170
students.
Courses Offered: History of Protest Music in the United States;
History of Photography, 1839 to Present;
The History of US Energy;
SAT Prep.
Contact Number: 212-485-9281
Notre Dame Saturday Academy
(Manhattan, New York)
Maryanne Mulvihill, Director. Founded 1997. Enrollment:
323 students.
Courses Offered: Conquer the SAT;
History of Film;
America Online: The History of the Internet;
New York City: A Poetic Landscape;
The Roaring Twenties;
Labor Unions in America;
New York in the Civil War.
Contact Number: 917-843-6456
Rutgers University (Newark,
New Jersey)
Elizabeth Aaron, Director. Founded 2006. Enrollment:
98 students.
Courses Offered: Civil War Seminar and Writing Workshop; American Identities; The Presidency in War Time: Deliberation and Decision-Making; Advance Placement US History Seminar.
Contact Number: 973-353-1871
Salesian High School Saturday Academy
(New Rochelle, New York)
John Flaherty & Paul Zaccagnino, Co-Directors. Founded
2005. Enrollment: 255 students.
Courses Offered: Baseball: America's Game;
D-Day - Codename: Operation Overlord;
Historic Crimes in American History;
Looking at American History Through Music;
The Gettysburg Campaign in the Civil War;
The Obstacles and Achievements of Italian-American Immigration;
Wartime America;
America Cinema;
The History of Law Enforcement;
Turning Points in the Civil War;
Great American Speeches;
My American Hero;
One Nation Under God;
Visual Arts in America;
Science in American History World War II;
The Italian Campaign;
The History of American Fighting Aircraft;
Political Cartoons;
Disney and the American Dream.
Contact Number: 914-632-0248
School Without Walls Saturday Academy
(Washington, DC)
Sylvia Isaac and Jenine Pokorak, Co-Directors. Founded
2008
Courses Offered: SAT Prep;
The Culture of New Orleans;
History of Africans in America to 1865;
Black Consumer Culture & Politics;
Introduction to Film Studies;
Parallel Paths to Black Freedom;
Trial Techniques;
AP US History review;
AP Government Review.
Contact Number: 202-724-4889
Spanish River Saturday Academy
(Palm Beach County, Florida)
Mara Goron, Director. Founded 2005. Enrollment: 72 students.
Courses Offered: ACT Prep;
Black Consumer Culture & Politics;
The Culture of New Orleans: Food, Festivals and Folklore;
History of Africans in America to 1865;
Introduction to Film Studies;
Parallel Paths to Black Freedom.
Contact Number: 561-241-2026
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