October 12, 2022
Past/Present Update
Work is ongoing on “Past/Present,” our AHA-funded project to create teaching resources and primary source collections that help educators link history to current events. The new collections of materials will be available by the end of this school year on Social History for Every Classroom, ASHP/CML’s online resource database for K-12 educators. Over the summer […]
October 12, 2022
CUNY LGBTQIA+ Consortium
For the second year, ASHP/CML has received a small grant to participate in CUNY’s LGBTQIA+ Consortium. With funding from the City Council of NYC, the Consortium supports LGBTQIA+ training, education, programming, and archives at 14 campuses. At the Graduate Center, participants include CLAGS: the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the Mina Rees Library, and […]
October 12, 2022
WBA: The OER Highlighted at the National Council on Public History Annual Conference
In May, Director of Online Programs Peter Mabli presented Who Built America: The OER––ASHP/CML’s upcoming free and publicly-accessible version of the WBA textbook with interactive charts and content from History Matters––at the National Council of Public History’s Annual Conference. His presentation was part of an online roundtable discussion among public historians who have created open […]
October 12, 2022
Welcome Rachel Pitkin
Rachel Pitkin is a first-year PhD student in History at the GC. Her current research interests include public and urban history, and history of women and gender in the twentieth century United States. Rachel comes to the GC with a background in education, and in teaching history/social studies. She holds an MA in Museum Studies […]
October 12, 2022
New Media Lab Reopens for In-Person Students
The NML assists doctoral students from across academic disciplines to create digital projects or tools to support their scholarly research and teaching. Lab projects integrate digital technologies into traditional academic practice, challenging scholars to develop fresh questions in their respective fields using the tools of new technology. Visit the New Media Lab website to learn […]
August 23, 2022
Anne Valk Interviewed for The Thought Project
Anne Valk, a specialist in women’s history and public history, joined The Thought Project for a Pride Month conversation that touches on the curtailing of LGBTQ rights and of women’s rights by the Supreme Court and state legislators. Valk is a professor of History and director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and […]
August 23, 2022
Scholars Weigh in on the End of Roe v. Wade
This summer, ASHP/CML Executive Director was one of several scholars who shared reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization. You can see these responses on the Graduate Center’s news page.
March 31, 2022
Save the Date — May 19, 2022 Steve Brier: Building Public Education and Democratizing Our Many Pasts
Please join us for a symposium on Thursday, May 19 to honor and explore (the recent-retiree!) Steve Brier’s critical role and contributions to CUNY, the American Social History Project, Digital Humanities, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Program, and the School of Labor and Urban Studies. The event will open with an examination of the American Social […]
March 30, 2022
ASHP Awarded Grant from the American Historical Association
We are pleased to announce that ASHP has been awarded funding from the American Historical Association’s Grants to Sustain and Advance the Work of Historical Organizations Program, which provides relief to institutions adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This opportunity was made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the […]