Cited as a model for public humanities and educational programming, ASHP/CML’s projects and programs have earned numerous awards and accolades. Our work has won Teacher’s Choice Awards, been nominated for Daytime Emmys, and been awarded the National Council on Public History’s Robert Kelley Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to public history and the American Historical Association’s James Harvey Robinson Prize for outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history. In addition, ASHP/CML has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Humanities, American Association of Museums, and other organizations.  

Those recognitions include:

2024 Webby Awards: Official Honoree – Websites and Mobile Sites: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (for Mission US 7: No Turning Back)

2024 Anthem Awards: Gold Award – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Education or Literacy Program; Silver Award – Education, Art, & Culture: Education or Literacy Program (for Mission US 7: No Turning Back)

2024 Kidscreen Awards: Winner – Best Alternative Game (for Mission US 7: No Turning Back)

Public Media Award, Educational Resources for the Classroom, National Educational Telecommunications Association for Mission US 7: No Turning Back, 2023

Teachers’ Choice Awards Winner, Classroom Category for Mission US, 2020

International Serious Play Awards Gold Medal – Education Category for Mission US, 2019 and 2021

Games for Change awards for Mission US, 2014 and 2016

The Best of the Web Education award for HERB: Social History for Every Classroom, 2012

The 9/11 Memorial Certificate of Appreciation for the September 11 Digital Archive, 2011

The National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment citation for The Lost Museum, 2005

The Robert Kelley Memorial Award for outstanding contribution to public history from the National Council on Public History, 1998

The James Harvey Robinson Prize for the teaching aid which has made the most outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history for History Matters: Teaching the U.S. History Survey and Who Built America? CD-ROM, Volume I: From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914 (Voyager, 1993) from the American Historical Association, 2004 and 1994

For a fuller list of the awards and media coverage we have received, click here.