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/.
March 24, 2011
Call for Applications
ASHP/CML will be offering two training institutes for high school humanities teachers this summer: nn The New Media Classroom: New Approaches to History and Humanities Education nn July 8-10, 2002nCUNY Graduate Center nn This program will train secondary school teachers and administrators to integrate educational technology into classroom practice. Program work and learning objectives focus […]
March 24, 2011
Labor at the Crossroads Receives Grant
Labor at the Crossroads recently received a North Star grant to fund the continuation of its programming. Labor at the Crossroads produces television programs about working people and the issues that are important to them. Check the Web site for schedule and catalog information: www.ashp.cuny.edu/Laborx.html or contact SFarkhondeh@gc.cuny.edu.
March 24, 2011
Media Attention for Two ASHP/CML Projects
Two ASHP/CML online projects that chronicle significant events in New York City’s history were recently featured on cable television channel New York 1. Read or watch these segments by clicking on the corresponding URLs: nn The September 11 Digital Archive, a permanent online archive of materials related to the events of September 11th, 2001, nn […]
March 24, 2011
The September 11th Digital Archive in New-York Historical Society Exhibit
A kiosk displaying The September 11th Digital Archive Web site has been included in an exhibit currently at the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS). The exhibit, co-sponsored by City Lore, is the third exhibition in N-YHS’s History Responds series and is titled MISSING: STREETSCAPE OF A CITY IN MOURNING. Visitors to the exhibit can browse The […]
March 24, 2011
NEH Grant Awarded to The New Media Classroom
ASHP/CML’s premier teaching with technology program, The New Media Classroom (NMC), has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant. Entitled Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom, the program will train history and humanities faculty from 10 college and university campuses (NMC Regional Centers) in […]
March 24, 2011
CUNY WIRED!: A CUNY New Media Conference That Rocked
CUNY WIRED! The day n Ioannis Stamos, Hunter College Computer Science, presents the Reconstruction of Photorealistic 3D Models in Urban Environment. On the afternoon and evening of March 15, 2002 more than 150 new media enthusiasts gathered at the CUNY Graduate Center to share their passion, projects and points of view at CUNY WIRED! This […]
March 24, 2011
Calendar: “Talking History”: On-line Forums from History Matters
Fall 2002 n https://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/talkhist/ n September 2002 — Feminist Movements in U.S. History with Estelle Freedman (Stanford University) as Guest Moderator n October 2002 — Using Material Culture to Teach U.S. History with Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (Harvard University) as Guest Moderator n November 2002 — History of Early Settlement in the U.S. with Alan Taylor […]
March 24, 2011
Calendar: The Middle East in the American Mind
Monday, October 28, 2002, 6-8PM n CUNY Graduate Center, Room 9206 n The Center for Media and Learning and the Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center host a conversation among scholars to explore the ways that Americans do—and do not—understand the cultures, histories, and politics of the region defined as the Middle East. What […]