September 9, 2016
ASHP works with Reading Area Community College on NEH Conexiones program
Reading Area Community College in Pennsylvania, in partnership with ASHP/CML, was a awarded a two-year National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) professional and curricular development grant focusing on Latino history and culture. Conexiones: Linking Berks County Latino Communities to a Larger World, aims to build faculty participants’ competency in Latino history and culture, and help […]
September 8, 2016
New Collections Now Available in the CUNY Digital History Archive
As higher education is increasingly a subject of contentious debate, one way to explore the history of our own public university system is to visit the onine CUNY Digital History Archive. This online participatory archive and portal is a work-in-progress and we welcome your contributions. Focused on stories and material that document the struggle to […]
September 2, 2016
Up from the Dust – A New Mission US Release
Up from the Dust, the fifth in the Mission US series of online history games produced in collaboration with New York public television station WNET/Thirteen and game producer Electric Funstuff, was released on September 2nd. The role-playing game provides young people with an experiential understanding of the enormous hardships Americans faced during the late 1920s […]
February 16, 2016
“City of Immigrants” Wins Parents’ Choice Award
City of Immigrants—the fourth in the Mission US series of free online history games produced by public television station WNET/Thirteen in collaboration with ASHP/CML, the game company Electric Funstuff, and the Educational Development Center—just received the Parents’ Choice Gold Award in the Spring 2016 website competition. Issued by the Parents’ Choice Foundation, the oldest nonprofit […]
February 1, 2016
New York City Social Studies Curriculum Writing Project
ASHP is pleased to be participating in an ambitious social studies curriculum writing project currently underway at the New York City Department of Education. NYCDOE’s centrally-based Social Studies team, led by Executive Director Eric Contreras, has selected a group of social studies teachers representing grades K-12 who are writing model curriculum lessons and units to […]
January 29, 2016
ASHP Redesigns HERB: Social History for Every Classroom
ASHP is pleased to announce a major overhaul of HERB: Social History for Every Classroom, our free web resource of primary sources, curated collections, and teaching activities on U.S. history. HERB is now entering its fifth year online, and has been used by thousands of educators around the country. We’ve improved the visual layout of […]
January 29, 2016
New Features Added to WBA Badges
ASHP recently launched new features on the Who Built America: Badges for History Education website, our online professional development program. These improvements represent our continued commitment to providing classroom ready, discipline specific professional learning to history teachers. We’ve developed four tutorials designed to aid teachers in modeling disciplinary literacy and historical thinking skills in their […]
January 27, 2016
Revitalizing “Investigating U.S. History”
As part of our effort to keep our online teaching resources accessible and user-friendly, we have revised and upgraded our Investigating U.S. History website. The site now has a responsive design, to make it tablet and mobile friendly, a new audio format for greater compatibility, and updated links programmed in HTML 5. Originally created in […]
January 14, 2016
Job Posting for GC students – CUNY Digital History Archive
The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) is an open, participatory digital archive and portal that gives the CUNY community and the broader public online access to a range of materials related to the history of the City University of New York. The CDHA will conduct and collect oral history interviews as well as accept historical […]