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 […]
September 14, 2021
Welcome Maggie, Our New Graduate Assistant!
This semester ASHP/CMLwelcomes Maggie Schreiner as our new graduate assistant. Maggie is a first year PhD student in History at The Graduate Center. Maggie has over a decade of experience working in archives and public history settings, and is an adjunct faculty member in the Archives and Public History program at NYU. Maggie’s current research […]
September 14, 2021
“Military History and the LGBTQ+ Community”: A New Collection on Social History for Every Classroom
Over the summer ASHP/CML published a new collection on Social History for Every Classroom, our database of primary documents, classroom activities, and other teaching tools in U.S. history. “Military History and the LGBTQ+ Community”(https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/exhibits/show/lgbtq-military-history) explores the multitude of ways members of the LBGTQ+ community impacted and were affected by service in the United States military. […]
September 13, 2021
Upcoming Event: The Three Mothers
On October 27, ASHP/CML will co-sponsor an event organized by the PublicsLab, featuring Anna Malaika Tubbs for a discussion of her groundbreaking and critically acclaimed book The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation. In this “dynamic blend of biography and manifesto” (The New […]
September 9, 2021
ASHP/CML Awarded NEH Grant for LGBTQ+ Summer Institute
In August, ASHP/CML was notified that it was selected to receive a $190,000 NEH grant to coordinate a summer institute focused on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. The two-week summer institute will take place at the Graduate Center in July 2021, bringing together about two dozen middle and high school teachers for an immersive […]