March 21, 2012
ASHP/CML and the Common Core Standards
Adopted by 40 states, including New York, the Common Core Standards for education are designed to insure that students master the high level reading, writing, and thinking skills they need for college and career readiness. ASHP/CML has been asked by the New York City Department of Education to develop and test classroom materials that will […]
March 21, 2012
Flight to Freedom Now Live: mission-us.org
Flight to Freedom is the second installment of Mission US, an interactive project that immerses players in U.S. history through free, role-playing games and for which ASHP/CML is the lead content developer. Mission US is produced by New York public television station WNET/THIRTEEN, developed by Electric Funstuff, and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting […]
March 21, 2012
Badges!
We’re pleased to announce that ASHP/CML is one of the winners of the 4th Digital Media and Learning Competition, held in collaboration with Mozilla, supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and administered by HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). This year’s competition focused on Badges for Lifelong Learning, and […]
November 1, 2011
A Note to CUNY Faculty and Staff
Planning to make a contribution to the CUNY Campaign? Help ASHP/CML continue to produce teaching materials and bring services to New York City’s history teachers. We are #2949 in the CUNY Campaign list of participating agencies, under “CUNY-Based Organizations.” Thank you!
November 1, 2011
ASHP/CML Launches NEH Summer Institute Website: The Visual Culture of the American Civil War
We are pleased to announce the launch of our NEH Summer Institute website, The Visual Culture of the American Civil War. On this site you will find information about our July 2012 summer institute for college and university faculty, which we are hosting at the CUNY Graduate Center. The institute will focus on the the […]
November 1, 2011
ASHP/CML Awarded IMLS Planning Grant
We are pleased to announce that the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), in partnership with the American Social History Project, a National Leadership Planning Grant for Contextualizing the Visual Archive for Teaching. This project is designed to research and prototype an interactive online interface for archives and libraries […]
November 1, 2011
The Civil War @ 150: A Public Program on Civil War Photography
Come to the Martin Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center on Thursday, November 3, 2011, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, for the third of our public seminars marking the sesquicentennial of the start of the U.S. Civil War. Supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities, previous programs in the […]
September 21, 2011
Keeping Up with Us via Social Media
While our e-newsletter will keep arriving in your inbox, you can also keep up with what we’re doing here at ASHP/CML on a more regular basis. Our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/ashpcml) and Twitter account (@ashp_cml) will alert you to our new podcasts, highlights from our online projects, public seminars, and links to useful and enlightening items […]
September 21, 2011
Defending Public Higher Education: A Graduate Center Conference
Over the course of the past three decades investment in public higher education has declined dramatically. Most American public university systems, such as California, Wisconsin, and Illinois, have experienced serious reductions in their state funding requiring dramatic cutbacks in academic programs and services they provide to their students. n Here at the City University of […]