The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning offers consultation and production services to other organizations and projects. We bring expertise to a broad range of topics. Over the past twenty-five years, we have taken on an array of projects:
Museum Programming
- Research and writing for The Jewish Museum’s Bridges and Boundaries: African Americans and American Jews traveling exhibition.
- Documentaries for the Chicago Historical Society’s A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln permanent exhibit.
Television Series/Documentaries Development
- Concept and research for a McDougall-Littell/Houghton Mifflin textbook documentary series.
- Content advising for WNET/Thirteen’s Mission US, an online educational game series.
Web Design and Programming
- Website design and production for John Jay College’s National Endowment for the Humanities project, Making Objects Speak: Portable Audio Guides for Teaching with Visual Culture in the Humanities.
- Website design and production for The New Jersey Historical Society: What Exit? New Jersey and Its Turnpike.
- Online resources and lesson plans for a National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Initiative, Lessons of History.
Faculty Development
- Multi-year professional-development programs for humanities teachers in New York City public schools.
- Seminars and workshops on key events/themes in U.S. history for universities and secondary schools across the nation.
- Seminars and workshops on teaching with technology for secondary schools across the nation.
To inquire about consultation/contract services, contact Pennee Bender at pbender@gc.cuny.edu.
