September 21, 2011
July 2012 ASHP/CML Institute for College and University Teachers
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded ASHP/CML a grant to host a two-week institute in July 2012 on the visual media—including the fine arts, photography, and ephemera—that helped define the American Civil War. “The Visual Culture of the American Civil War” will assess how information and opinion about the war and its impact […]
September 21, 2011
Thirty Years! Already?
This month, and this issue of our newsletter, marks the thirtieth anniversary of the founding of the American Social History Project. This seems the appropriate moment to thank all of you for your years—decades!—of support, collaboration, and good will. n Thirty. Such a full, round, and venerable number leaves us amazed, proud, and a little […]
May 25, 2011
ASHP/CML Introduces HERB
We are pleased to announce the debut of ASHP/CML’s latest educational website, HERB: Social History for Every Classroom. Named in honor of our co-founder, the late labor historian Herbert Gutman, HERB is a free website for teaching U.S.history. The fruit of over two decades of professional development work with teachers in New York City and […]
March 30, 2011
A New Look for History Matters: Teaching the U.S. History Survey on the Web
Check out the new design of our award-winning online gateway and resource for teaching the U.S. past, History Matters with improved navigation to get you to the site’s most popular and useful features and a less somber (New York black) appearance!
March 30, 2011
Biography and the Practice of History: A Public Seminar
As biographies top bestseller lists and take up ever more shelf space at chain bookstores, some academic historians hold these popular publications at arm’s length and decry their narrow approach and lack of rigor. But what are the possibilities and limitations of biography as a medium for communicating history? As part of a series of […]
March 30, 2011
Dance, Disasters, and Divinity! A New Media Lab Expo for the Graduate Center Community
On Wednesday, November 30th, the New Media Lab (NML) will host an event to showcase innovative work by CUNY faculty and doctoral students that incorporates new technology into their scholarship. The NML Expo will feature panel discussions and demonstrations that address the challenges posed by new media in doctoral training and the latest approaches to […]
March 30, 2011
ASHP/CML Awarded 2 New Teaching American History Grants
ASHP/CML in partnership with Region 3 and Region 4 of New York City public schools and the Program in Social Studies, Department of Secondary Education, Queens College, CUNY has been awarded two new Teaching American History grants by the U.S. Department of Education. The diverse urban schools served by the program have high numbers of […]
March 30, 2011
Ground One: Voices from Post-911 Chinatown
ASHP/CML’s in collaboration with the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, and NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute recently completed Ground One: Voices from Post-911 Chinatown. This project provides an in-depth portrait of the ways in which the identity of a community, largely neglected by national media following […]
March 30, 2011
Teaching American History Programs Update
This summer middle-school and high school teachers from Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island participating in ASHP/CML’s Teaching American History professional development program attended two four-day Summer Institutes. The workshops provided an opportunity for teachers from Regions 4 and 7 in the New York City public school system to use the historical information and approaches they […]