March 30, 2011
The Lost Museum Cited for Digital Education Achievement
The Center for Digital Education announced the winners of its annual Digital Education Achievement Awards in late September and ASHP/CML’s website The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum U.S. Life and Culture garnered the top prize in the 2006 competition in the “Teacher-focused” category. The website, which combines 3-D techniques with a rich archive of primary documents […]
March 30, 2011
Who Built America? Documentaries Available on DVD
With their release in DVD format, ASHP/CML’s Who Built America? Series Two documentaries-1877: The Grand Army of Starvation, Savage Acts: Wars, Fairs, and Empire, Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl, and Up South-have moved into the twenty-first century. Series One programs will follow soon. The DVD versions of the documentaries are broken into thematic chapters […]
March 30, 2011
Teaching U.S. History in the Age of New Media
ASHP/CML is participating in a conference to celebrate the completion of Investigating U.S. History, a new media project involving 23 faculty members from twelve CUNY campuses to create and test interactive multimedia “lab” modules for use in the introductory college U.S. history survey. The project’s premise is to let students “do history” using the growing […]
March 30, 2011
Expo 2006: Bending Technologies In and Out of Academia
This November the New Media Lab and the Intermedia Arts Group will present Expo 2006: Bending Technologies In and Out of Academia, featuring presentations and performances by the pioneering interactive media artist Morton Subotnick and the creators of This Spartan Life, a talk show residing in the online Halo multiplayer universe. n This exciting participatory […]
March 30, 2011
Teaching American History: Region 7
In June 2006, ASHP/CML received a new Teaching American History grant, the fifth for which it designed the program and will act as lead partner. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Teaching American History program aims to improve teachers’ and students’ U.S. history knowledge, and their skill in working with primary documents in […]
March 30, 2011
Who Built America? Documentaries on DVD
The complete set of ten ASHP/CML Who Built America? documentaries is now available on DVD, covering significant themes in U.S. social history from the American Revolution through the interwar years of the twentieth century. Each DVD is broken into thematic chapters to allow easy selection of excerpts for teaching. n To mark the introduction of […]
March 30, 2011
“The City Speaks” and the New York City History Education Alliance
New York City History Education Alliance Conference n As part of its membership in the New York City History Education Alliance, ASHP/CML co-organized a hands-on workshop on “The City Speaks: Stories and Collections from New York City Cultural Institutions” for the Social Studies at the Core Spring Conference. The conference, which was sponsored by the […]
March 30, 2011
Staff Departures and Arrivals
You Say Goodbye and We Say Hello n In January 2007 ASHP/CML bade farewell to Edith DeGrammont, our administrator for more than a dozen years. Thanks to Edith, we now are a much better-organized outfit and we wish her well in her much deserved retirement. Earlier this year, Landry Kouassi, administrative assistant for our education […]
March 30, 2011
2007 Herbert G. Gutman Memorial Lecture
Historian Joshua Freeman to Speak on Gutman’s Legacy: Writing the History of Postwar America Twenty Years Later n On Tuesday, April 17, Joshua B. Freeman, Professor of History at The Graduate Center, will deliver the 2007 lecture in recognition of the life and work of the late labor historian and co-founder of ASHP/CML, Herbert Gutman. […]