March 24, 2011
Calendar: The Civil War in New York–From Print to Pixels
Wednesday, March 26, 2003, 6–8PMnCUNY Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theater n New York during the Civil War was the hub of the northern war effort and also a city at war with itself. Defined and divided by wealth and poverty, privilege and sacrifice, patriotism and dissent, and abolitionism and racism, it was a social […]
March 24, 2011
Virtual New York news
Virtual New York City continues to grow in size, and will be launching its second “Disaster” exhibit– “The Great Blizzard of 1888″– in December 2002. Nineteenth-century New York’s reaction to the Great Blizzard provides great insight into the city’s process of modernization. This natural disaster paralyzed the city for a week in March, and in […]
March 24, 2011
Lost Museum Recent Publicity
The Lost Museum recently received welcomed publicity in two publications. AAA World, the automobile magazine covering the mid-atlantic states, ran an in-depth article that included 6 images of the website and suggested the virtual museum as a complement to vacationers’ travels to actual Civil War sites. The Internet Scout Report, a prestigious long-running online magazine […]
March 24, 2011
ASHP/CML Presents at Technology Conference
In recognition of our contribution to developing innovative new media resources and approaches to their effective use in the classroom, five of the 38 sessions composing the First Annual CUNY-Wide Informational and Instructional Technology Conference held on Friday, November 15th at John Jay College were devoted to ASHP/CML projects or activities carried out under our […]
March 24, 2011
Calendar: Labor at The Crossroads Summer Schedule
After fifteen years Labor at the Crossroads, New York’s only monthly labor program about issues affecting working people, is discontinuing production. Labor at the Crossroads, better known as LABOR X, began in 1988 as a collaboration between ASHP/CML and the CUNY Association for Worker Education. Over its fifteen years, succeeding LABOR X producers Liz Sheehan, […]
March 24, 2011
Calendar: Upcoming Conference: Innovations in Collaboration: A School-University Model to Enhance History Teaching
On June 26-28, 2003 The American Historical Association, National Council for the Social Studies, and Organization of American Historians will co-sponsor the Innovations in Collaboration conference to showcase model programs where K-12 and university educators are working together in innovative ways to enhance the teaching of history. 130 individuals from elementary and secondary schools, colleges […]
March 24, 2011
New Jersey Turnpike Web Site Gets Honorable Mention
In 2002 The New Jersey Historical Society commissioned ASHP/CML to create a Web site based on its popular What Exit: New Jersey and Its Turnpike exhibit. The American Association of Museums recently awarded the site an honorable mention.
March 24, 2011
Grant Enriches The September 11 Digital Archive
ASHP — 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 — is pleased to announce the receipt of a $150,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for the Chinatown Documentation Project (CDP). The CDP aims, through facilitated dialogues and recorded […]
March 24, 2011
Making Connections Funded to Work With New Small Schools
JPMorganChase awarded ASHP/CML a $10,000 grant to support our teacher professional development work with new small schools in New York City. This one-year grant for the 2003 calendar year is enabling us to provide support to humanities teachers in the areas of content, pedagogy, and curriculum development at a July 2003 Summer Institute.