March 24, 2011

Fiction and the City

Tuesday, February 26, 6-8 PM FREE Proshansky Auditorium, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) nn Co-sponsored by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and the Gotham Center, CUNY Graduate Center. nn Writers Kevin Baker, Pete Hamill, Peter Quinn, Beverly Swerling, and Louis Auschincloss will discuss the role of New […]

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March 24, 2011

CUNY WIRED!: A CUNY New Media Conference

Friday, March 15, 12:30 – 7:30PM FREE Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) n Sponsored by the New Media Lab, CUNY Graduate Center. n From the sciences to the arts to the humanities, CUNY faculty and students are rising to the challenge posed by new digital media–creating innovative programs […]

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March 24, 2011

Two New Labor at the Crossroads Productions

Two New Labor at the Crossroads Productions nn Two programs in ASHP/CML’s cable television series on labor issues, Labor at the Crossroads, were recently screened and broadcast in New York City. “9/11″ A Crisis for Workers? was nn aired on CUNY TV channel 75 and the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. The program explores the impact of […]

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March 24, 2011

New Resource Combines Art, History, Literature

A two-year collaboration between ASHP/CML and the Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA) has culminated in the publication of the teacher handbook, Picturing a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture. The project, which was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, aims to help teachers and students integrate art into an expanded understanding […]

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March 24, 2011

Multicultural Project in NYC

ASHP/CML’s education unit recently received financial support from J.P. Morgan Chase and Co. for its multicultural pilot project, Exploring Diversity: Gaining a Deeper Understanding of U.S. History and Culture. Through a NYC Board of Education multicultural education contract, ASHP/CML plans to enhance its teacher training programs by developing and offering workshops that focus on race […]

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March 24, 2011

New Teaching With Technology Training Program

Teaching History (and the Humanities) in the New Media Classroom is a yearlong faculty development program for high school teachers that explores effective teaching strategies for integrating technology in history and humanities classroom curricula. The program kicks off with a 4-day summer institute and continues during the school year with follow-up interactions, including online discussions […]

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March 24, 2011

The September 11 Digital Archive

ASHP/CML, along with the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, has received a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create a permanent online archive of materials related to the events of September 11th, 2001. The September 11 Digital Archive will serve as a gateway to relevant historical materials […]

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March 24, 2011

In Memoriam

Adesimba Kumara Bashir, 1952-2002 n Our long-time colleague and dear friend, Adesimba Bashir, died on May 7, 2002. Born in Manhattan, Ade (whom many of you may have known as Pat Brown-Height) grew up in the Bronx, graduating from Preston High School in 1970. She graduated from NYU in 1974 with a BS in Elementary […]

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March 24, 2011

What’s New on the ASHP/CML Web Site

ASHP’s US history gateway site, History Matters: The US Survey on the Web, now features a guide to help teachers and students use film as historical evidence. “Making Sense of Films” is available at: https://historymatters.gmu.edu/mse/film/.

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