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 country with over 100,000 registered teachers and more than three million student users. Over the past decade, small scale studies of the games provided evidence for positive effects on students' understanding of historical content and thinking skills, but the efficacy of Mission US series has...Read more

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. Primary sources in the collection span almost the whole of U.S. history, from an excerpted letter by Alexander Hamilton to fellow Revolutionary War soldier John Laurens, to the adoption of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” military policy in the 1990s. The sources are supplemented by...Read more

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 college's DSA chapter and short-filmmaking with the TV production club. Growing up in New Jersey, David had always dreamed of one day moving to NYC and is ecstatic for all the opportunities here!Read more

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 learning experience. The institute will cover historical content, introduce primary sources useful for the study of LGBTQ+ history, and create an opportunity for educators to discuss pedagogy. After the institute, ASHP/CML will create a digital resource with primary sources and curriculum materials that can be shared with other teachers.

The summer institute builds on ASHP/CML's...Read more