January 19, 2022
Eve Adams: Jewish, Polish, Emigre, Lesbian, Pioneer, Activist: A Book Talk by Jonathan Ned Katz
ASHP invites you to join pioneering historian Jonathan Ned Katz for a talk about his new biography, The Daring Life and Dangerous Times of Eve Adams. Katz is an independent scholar, historian, and visual artist. Starting in 1976, he has published five books on sexual and gender history, and he founded OutHistory.org, a major website […]
January 19, 2022
Welcome Robert, Our New Graduate Assistant
Robert Cleary just completed his first semester in the History Ph.D. Program at the Graduate Center and is excited about beginning the spring. Along with his work as a student at CUNY, he has recently begun volunteering with the LGBTQ National History Archive at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center in Manhattan. Robert […]
January 14, 2022
Welcome Carli, Our New Researcher
This spring, Carli Snyder will join ASHP/CML as a researcher and writer, preparing educational materials for Mission US and contributing to the production of Who Built America? The OER. Carli is a PhD candidate in the Graduate Center’s History program. Her research examines the development of feminist Holocaust scholarship in the United States during the […]
January 14, 2022
New CDHA Collections and an Exciting Transition
The CUNY Digital History Archives has recently opened five new collections highlighting student and community activism and is now partnering with the Graduate Center’s Mina Reese Library. The new collections include: Community College 7 covering the community activism that helped to create Medgar Evers College; Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College on the formation of […]
January 14, 2022
Welcome Gaby, Our Spring Semester NYU Graduate Student Intern
This spring, Gaby Fasold Berges will join ASHP/CML as an intern, researching and assisting in the creation of digital maps for Who Built America? The OER. She will also assist with research for the development of a project on science in U.S. history. Gaby is a third-year PhD student in Latin American and Caribbean history […]
September 16, 2021
2021 NEH Summer Institute – The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath
This summer twenty-five scholars participated in the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning’s fifth National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute Visual Culture of the American Civil War and its Aftermath. Participants met virtually, with pre-recorded video presentations by seventeen noted historians, art historians, and archivists representing the range of current work in […]
September 15, 2021
Prisoner in My Homeland Wins Gold Medal
The sixth Mission US game, Prisoner in My Homeland, won the 2021 International Serious Play Awards: Gold Medal in the K-12 Education Category. This Mission follows the experiences of teenager Henry Tanaka, whose family is forced to leave their home on Bainbridge Island, WA, for a prison camp in Manzanar, CA. Players grapple with the […]
September 15, 2021
Mission US to Be Tested in 35 Public Schools
The Institute of Education Sciences (IES), an independent, non-partisan statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education has funded a three-year study led by the Educational Development Center in collaboration with ASHP/CML, WNET, and Electric Funstuff. The Mission US series is one of the most widely used supplemental history interventions in the […]
September 14, 2021
Welcome David, Our New Office Administrator!
We are pleased to announce that David Scheckel has joined ASHP as our new office administrator. David has just moved to New York upon finishing his Master’s in Public Policy this summer at Northeastern University. Along with academic interests in urban planning and policy, he has spent much of his time political organizing in his […]