Anne Valk, a specialist in women’s history and public history, joined The Thought Project for a Pride Month conversation that touches on the curtailing of LGBTQ rights and of women’s rights by the Supreme Court and state legislators.  

Valk is a professor of History and director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the CUNY Graduate Center. As a public historian, Valk focuses on the ways history is preserved and presented to people through monuments, museums, libraries, and more. Also a noted oral historian, she has written about the history of second-wave feminism and of racial segregation in the U.S. 

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We are pleased to announce that ASHP has been awarded funding from the American Historical Association’s Grants to Sustain and Advance the Work of Historical Organizations Program, which provides relief to institutions adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. This opportunity was made possible with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. 

The grant will allow us to add content to Social History for Every Classroom (SHEC), our widely-used online educational resource composed of primary sources, teaching activities, and interpretive essays for middle and high school classrooms. Over the next 12 months,...Read more

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 learn about and honor the innumerable people, often “hidden” from the traditional historical record, who have shaped and continue to shape our history and identity.

The project materials––including 20 lesson profiles on LGBTQ+ history and culture that ASHP worked with scholars and educators to plan, research, develop,...Read more