Projects
ASHP/CML has been at the forefront of history on the web since the mid-1990s, producing a variety of websites where teachers, students, and the general public can discover the past. Our subjects range from revolutionary France to the twenty-first century U.S. and points in between. We’ve developed primary document and oral history archives, teaching tools, and 3-D re-creations that help users explore such places in the past as P. T. Barnum’s American Museum in 1865, New York City’s Chinatown after the September 11th attacks, and Brooklyn College in the 1950s. We continue to develop new web projects that showcase the latest historical thinking, rich archival resources, and the best new digital tools available.
LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States
Since 2020, the ASHP has undertaken several initiatives to support and promote the efforts of educators and public historians focused on LGBTQ+ history.
Who Built America? Open Educational Resource
A free, interactive, online edition of the award-winning textbook, Who Built America?
Visual Culture of the American Civil War
The historical record of the American Civil War includes a vast amount of visual material—photographs, illustrated news periodicals, comic publications, individually-published prints, almanacs, political cartoons, illustrated envelopes, trade cards, greeting cards, sheet music covers, money, and more.
New Media Lab
Images of the Victorian Sportswoman. A digital archive of iron in the pre-contact Arctic. A smartphone app for sexual and reproductive health. What can all of these things possibly have in common?
Social History For Every Classroom
Social History for Every Classroom is a database of primary documents, classroom activities, and other teaching tools in U.S. history.
Zoom In
This project features 18 skill-focused, document-rich lessons on social history topics that address every era of U.S. history.
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
This site introduces the extraordinary events of the French Revolution, from its origins in eighteenth-century French society through its legacies in the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte and after.
9/11 Digital Archive
The Archive contains more than 150,000 digital items, including more than 40,000 emails and other electronic communications, more than 40,000 first-hand stories, and more than 15,000 digital images.