March 24, 2011
Teaching Traditional American History Program: Historians and Teachers
Teachers from New York City’s Region 7 delving into workshop activities on the Civil War, on March 31, 2004 in Staten Island. nASHP/CML’s Historians and Teachers faculty development program kicked off on March 5 with an enthusiastic group of 34 teachers from Region 7 of the New York City public schools. Professor Herbert Sloan of […]
March 24, 2011
On the Move…Again!
We are pleased to announce that the entire staff of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) and the New Media Lab is now located on the 7th floor of the CUNY Graduate Center. n After four years, the education programs of ASHP/CML have left its space in trendy Tribeca to join […]
March 24, 2011
2004 Herbert G. Gutman Memorial Lecture
Alice Kessler-Harris nAlice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University and author of, most recently, the Bancroft Prize-winning In Pursuit of Equity: How Gender Shaped American Economic Citizenship, will discuss “Thinking Globally: Paradoxes of a Gendered Labor History.” The free event will be held on Thursday, October 7, at 6:30 in […]
March 24, 2011
Calendar: October 4th Public Seminar: New York Underground
Five aficionados of New York’s subterranean past will participate in a panel discussion that explores the history of the city’s literal “lower depths.” The participants include Julia Solis, author of New York Underground; Robert Sullivan, author of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City’s Most Unwanted Inhabitants; Chris Neville, lecturer for Place […]
March 24, 2011
Teaching American History Grants
In July ASHP/CML was a partner in two Teaching American History grants awarded to the New York City public schools by the U.S. Department of Education. ASHP/CML will be the lead partner working with middle and high school teachers in NYC’s Region 4, made up of schools in western Queens and the Bushwick section of […]
March 24, 2011
NEH EDSITEment Project: “Lessons of History”
In conjunction with David Jaffee of The City College of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, ASHP/CML was awarded a contract to produce “Lessons of History,” interactive classroom activities for the National Endowment for the Humanities’ EDSITEment website. Building on CUNY’s “Investigating U.S. History” project, ASHP/CML will […]
March 24, 2011
As we begin our 24th year…
…our range of projects grows as our dedication to advancing public knowledge about the past and the history of working people intensifies. ASHP/CML may have achieved a venerable age, but we’re still eager to embark on new ventures that, we hope, promote learning about the past and stretch the parameters of *how* we learn. To […]
March 24, 2011
Calendar: The Fight for Academic Freedom at CUNY: Past and Present
ASHP/CML is cosponsoring a series of three public programs at The Graduate Center on the history and ongoing struggle for academic freedom in the U.S. nn Credit: Sylvia Ward Rehearsing for McCarthyism at City College nn Friday, February 4, 4-6 pm nn This session examines City College in the 1930s when students and faculty confronted […]
March 24, 2011
ASHP/CML Internship Opportunities
For the past few summers, advanced undergraduate history students have worked with ASHP as researchers and writers on The Lost Museum and Who Built America? videos websites. This summer and through the fall ASHP will be producing a new Web project, the Young America: Experiences of Youth in U.S. History, and we welcome interns interested […]