March 24, 2011

Calendar: Picturing a Nation: Teaching with American Art and Material Culture

October 4-5, 2002 nn National Council for History Education nn Discovering History Conference nn Saratoga Springs, NY nn ASHP/CML will present with the Brooklyn Museum of Art a report on a collaborative curriculum development and teacher training program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Using the museum’s American paintings and decorative arts collection […]

Labor at the Crossroads Programs Reach New Audiences

Salt Peanuts, a five-minute video originally produced as part of ASHP/CML’s Labor at the Crossroads cable television series, will be broadcast on the Free Speech Television Network, which reaches more than six million US homes. In addition to the broadcast of Salt Peanuts, Free Speech TV will air ten of our best titles in the […]

ASHP/CML Goes to Japan

ASHP/CML’s The Lost Museum was featured at a presentation at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. nJosh Brown was a member of the American Studies Association delegation to the June 2002 Japanese Association for American Studies annual conference at Meiji University in Tokyo. He presented a paper, “From the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies and […]

New book from ASHP/CML Executive Director

ASHP/CML Executive Director Joshua Brown’s social history of the nineteenth-century U.S. illustrated press, Beyond the Lines: Pictorial Reporting, Everyday Life, and the Crisis of Gilded Age America, was published by University of California Press in August. n The book will also be released in electronic format as part of the American Council of Learned Societies’ […]

ASHP/CML Materials Adapted for ESL Students

In the past few years, master teachers of our NYC Making Connections program have been working with ASHP/CML educators to adapt some of our resources for ESL students. Based on four video documentaries, an ESL curriculum packet for secondary school humanities classrooms will be available in the fall. The packet includes adaptations of four video […]

Report on the Learning to Look National Leadership Institute

In July ASHP/CML launched the latest phase of its influential teaching-with-technology faculty development program, the New Media Classroom. Funded by NEH, “Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom” started as a one-week institute at the CUNY Graduate Center involving the directors of ten affiliated “regional centers” from Washington […]

September 11 Digital Archive Collects 30,000 Contributions

The September 11 Digital Archive records the diverse ways Americans have commemorated the attacks Did you send an email to a friend or family member on September 11th? In the hours and days following the attacks, more than 100 million Americans did. As with so many materials registering the social and cultural experiences of ordinary […]

Calendar: Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom at CUNY

Join expert presenters in an interdisciplinary dialogue about the “best practices” for integrating visual evidence, new media resources, and active learning pedagogy into classrooms where U.S. history and culture are taught. nn See Web site for up-to-date information: web.gc.cuny.edu/ashp/LTLNMC/ nn nn Friday, March 7, 2003, 10AM to 1PM nn Queens College nn Dr. Joshua Freeman, […]

Calendar: “Talking History” On-line Forums from History Matters

historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/talkhist/ n February 2003 — Using Oral History to Teach U.S. History with Linda Shopes (Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission) as Guest Moderator n March 2003 — Teaching the U.S. Civil War with David Blight (Amherst College) as Guest Moderator n The discussions will focus on teaching these topics in the standard U.S. history survey […]