January 24, 2022
Congratulations to New Media Lab Digital Humanities Awardees
Congratulations to New Media Lab students Nicole Cote and Julia Fuller, recipients of the 2021 NYC Digital Humanities Graduate Student Digital Project Award. Three awards were given to graduate students attending any institution in New York City and the metropolitan area. The New Media Lab is proud to have supported two of this year’s recipients. […]
January 20, 2022
Call for Applications: LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States Summer Institute for Teachers
Applications are now open for our 2022 National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute “LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States.” Thirty middle and high school teachers will be selected to view presentations by and interact with noted scholars of LGBTQ+ history, teachers, and archivists, as well as their colleagues. In addition, they will go “behind […]
January 20, 2022
Department of Education’s “Hidden Voices” Materials Released to the Public
In 2020, ASHP/CML worked with the New York City Department of Education on a project to develop resources and lesson plans for their Hidden Voices program. Our work focused on incorporating significant LGBTQ+ people and events into the existing curriculum framework for elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. The project was initiated to help students […]
January 19, 2022
“Be Ready to Fight, Because it’s Worth It”: Efforts to Include LGBTQ+ History in High School Classes
On Tuesday, February 15, please join ASHP/CML for a virtual presentation by Stacie Brensilver Berman, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Teaching and Learning department at NYU Steinhardt Brensilver Berman will discuss her recent book, LGBTQ+ History in High School Classes in the United States since 1990, which details bureaucratic, organizational, and pedagogical efforts to make […]
January 19, 2022
Workshop: A Broader Spectrum: LGBTQ+ Inclusive Resources for Middle and High School History Classes
On Wednesday, March 9, please join ASHP/CML for a practitioner-focused virtual workshop led by Stacie Brensilver Berman (Visiting Assistant Professor in the Teaching and Learning department at NYU Steinhardt). Brensilver Berman will present quantitative and qualitative information on the necessity of including LGBTQ+ history in middle and high school social studies curricula, share available resources […]
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 […]