March 31, 2020
ASHP Teaching Resources: Help for Remote Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
As COVID-19 requires educators and parents to move classes online and adjust to social distancing, the American Social History Project wants to remind you of some of the resources we have available. We hope that you will encourage your colleagues, friends, family, students, and others to explore these and other materials through our website. If […]
March 29, 2020
All of ASHP’s Work Goes On . . .
Fortunately, all of our staff are able to work fully from home. So writing, designing, and programming continues on Who Built America? Open Educational Resource, which is scheduled to be completed in 2021. Two Mission US projects are also in production. Mission 6, Prisoner in My Homeland on the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World […]
December 9, 2019
July 2020—NEH Summer Institute on the Visual Culture of the Civil War and Its Aftermath
This July, the American Social History Project will once again host a two-week NEH Summer Institute for college and university faculty on the Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath. The fifth iteration of our institute will focus on the Civil War and Reconstruction era’s array of visual media–including prints, photographs, cartoons, […]
October 2, 2019
Announcing ASHP/CML’s New Executive Director
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Anne Valk has been named to succeed Dr. Joshua Brown as ASHP/CML’s new executive director and as a professor of history with a focus on public history at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Valk brings to her new position extensive expertise in oral history and digital media projects […]
September 4, 2019
Mission US Receives a “Teacher’s Choice Award for the Classroom”
We are pleased to announce that the Mission US series has been selected as a 2020 “Teacher’s Choice Award for the Classroom” by The Education Center Media Group. For over 45 years, The Education Center has been bringing influential teachers and organizations together through a host of pedagogical resources and materials. The “Teacher’s Choice Awards” […]
September 3, 2019
ASHP Awarded Ford Foundation Grant to Develop Who Built America? The Open Educational Resource
We are pleased to announce that the office of the President of the Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice has awarded ASHP a grant of $150,000 for Who Built America? The Open Educational Resource (WBA? OER). The grant will be used to clear rights for twentieth- and twenty-first century visual, audio, and text primary sources; […]
August 29, 2019
July 2020 NEH Summer Institute on Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath
ASHP has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to host a two-week institute for college and university faculty in July 2020 on the visual media of the American Civil War and its aftermath. The institute (in its fifth iteration) will expand study on the ways the war was recorded and […]
August 29, 2019
Check out ASHP Podcast Number 85
Did you know that American Social History Project Podcast (ASHP Podcast) has published over eighty episodes? With topics ranging from slavery and anti-slavery imagery to women’s history and women’s activism, and to border, immigration and citizenship, ASHP Podcast has presented subjects of interest to teachers and the public. Our podcast is drawn from ASHP’s public […]
June 12, 2019
Who Built America? Documentaries Now Streaming!
All ten of our award-winning documentaries are now available to stream for free and with closed-captioning. These accessible and exciting 30-minute programs explore the central role of working women and men in U.S. history, and have withstood the test of time by continuing to engage students in middle school through college level classes. Each documentary […]