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 the scenes'' with curators and staff at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, Leslie Lohman Museum, and New York Public Library. Due to continuing restrictions regarding face-to-face meetings, all institute sessions will be conducted remotely via Zoom.

The institute will be led by ASHP/CML Executive Director Dr. Anne Valk, along with history educators, Dr. Stacie...Read more

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 on U.S. LGBTQ+ history. In his newest book, Katz uncovers the story of Eve Adams -- an associate of Emma Goldman, a radical activist who ran lesbian- and -gay-friendly tea rooms in Chicago and New York and who, in 1925, published a book titled Lesbian...Read more

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 United States history classes and curricula more LGBTQ+ inclusive and the backlash against those efforts. She will share information from her book on recent legislation and resources created by organizations like GLSEN, Learning for Justice, and PBS in addition to specifically focusing on the oral histories she conducted with...Read more

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 one of the first Puerto Rican Studies programs in the nation; The Story of SLAM!: Oral History Interviews about student opposition to state budget cuts in the 1990s and early 2000s; The Shutdown: CUNY Responds to the Covid-19 Pandemic, which presents artifacts...Read more