January 17, 2019
Welcome to Our New Office Administrator
Julian Ehsan joined ASHP/CML in October 2018 as a college assistant, providing administrative and podcast production support to the Project’s staff. He has previously worked in local and state politics, interning for a councilwoman, an alderman, and a state treasurer. A graduate of New York University, Julian received a B.A. in History and Metropolitan Studies, […]
January 8, 2019
Difficult Histories/Public Spaces — A Series of Public Programs
Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation is a series of public programs in which historians, art historians, community activists, and artists will discuss the ongoing reevaluation of public monuments and memorials across the country and in New York City. nn n n n nn n n Wednesday, […]
November 5, 2018
Remembering Jesse Lemisch, 1936–2018
The Tamiment Library will host a memorial event for the late historian Jesse Lemisch. Following an hour’s worth of scheduled speeches, time will be allowed for attendees to add memories and comments of their own, followed by informal socializing with refreshments. Scheduled speakers include several important figures who knew Lemisch both as an important radical […]
September 24, 2018
Staff Changes
In August 2018, Executive Director Josh Brown began a leave of absence from ASHP/CML preparatory to retiring in 2019. Josh started working at ASHP at its inception in 1981, first as art director/creative director, lending his expertise in social history, visual culture, and illustration to the creation of the two-volume textbook Who Built America? Working […]
September 18, 2018
2018 NEH Summer Institute – The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and Its Aftermath
During two weeks this past July, the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning held our fourth National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute. “The Visual Culture of the American Civil War and its Aftermath” institute was hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center and three New York City cultural institutions (New York Public Library, […]
September 14, 2018
Coming in October – A Revitalized Mission US: For Crown or Colony
First launched in 2010, Mission US has more than 2 million registered users, including 80,000 teachers. However, since the first games were built in Flash – a format that will be phased out by 2020 – they will become unplayable within two years unless they are rebuilt using newer technology. With support from the National […]
September 14, 2018
Mission US: Time Snap – Can VR Enhance the Teaching of History?
In June 2018, the Mission US team — Electric Funstuff , WNET/Thirteen, the American Social History Project, and Education Development Center — received funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) to create a new groundbreaking series, Mission US: Time Snap. Building on a successful Phase I grant for prototype development […]
September 14, 2018
ASHP Hosts New Public Program Series
In partnership with The Gotham Center for New York City History and the CUNY Public History Collective, ASHP is hosting a series of public programs titled Difficult Histories/Public Spaces: The Challenge of Monuments in New York City and the Nation. The series brings together historians, art historians, community activists, and artists to discuss the ongoing […]
December 18, 2017
July 2018—NEH Summer Institute on the Visual Culture of the Civil War and Its Aftermath
Next 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 fourth iteration of our institute will focus on the Civil War era’s array of visual media–including prints, photographs, cartoons, illustrated newspapers […]