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.
March 24, 2011
The September 11 Digital Archive Makes History!
In May, 2003 the Library of Congress announced that The September 11 Digital Archive — a joint project of ASHP/CML and CHNM funded by the Sloan Foundation — will become the first digital acquisition in the Library’s history. This unprecedented accession to the institution’s holdings, scheduled for December 2003, will ensure both the long-term stability […]
March 24, 2011
Learning To Look Launches National Network of Summer Institutes
How might illustrations by Frederic Remington, paintings by Alfred Bierstadt, and sculptures by Edmonia Lewis help advance our understanding of the frontier past? What can students learn from a nineteenth-century slave narrative set alongside J. T. Zealy’s 1850 photographic portraits of Columbia, South Carolina, slaves “Delia” and “Jack”? And what questions about the past does […]
March 24, 2011
Calendar: ASHP/CML Seminar
Schools in Crisis?: Historical Perspectives on City School Reform n Tuesday October 14, 6-8pm, The Graduate Center n This free public event, sponsored by ASHP/CML and The Graduate Center’s Continuing Education Program, will bring together historians and activists to discuss the current dilemmas facing urban education, their historical origins, and their potential remedies. Panelists include: […]
March 24, 2011
Calendar: “Talking History” Online Forum from History Matters
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/talkhist/ nn October 2003 — Teaching the Civil Rights Movement with Charles Payne (Duke University) as Guest Moderator nn This month-long online discussion will focus on teaching the Civil Rights Movement in high school and college U.S. History survey courses. Teachers, students, and all interested in the history of the Civil Rights Movement can subscribe […]
March 24, 2011
The Chinatown Documentation Project
Digital art submission to the 911 Digital Archive In collaboration with The Museum of Chinese in the Americas, the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, and New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute, ASHP/CML has received a $150,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for The Chinatown Documentation Project (CDP). n The CDP aims, through […]
March 24, 2011
ASHP/CML Holds Teacher Institutes for New Small Schools
With support from JPMorganChase, ASHP/CML conducted a two-day teacher institute on August 25th and 26th at the CUNY Graduate Center. Focusing on Slavery and Reconstruction, hands-on workshops provided participating faculty with rich social history content and innovative teaching strategies. n Using ASHP/CML curriculum materials, sample sessions included an activity analyzing the nature and meaning of […]