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Grassroots Politics and Reconstruction

Published December 11, 2011

Historian Gregory Downs explains how grassroots political movements powered both the radical political possibilities and the ultimate violent defeat of Reconstruction.Read full description

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Scott Reynolds Nelson: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

Published November 24, 2011

Historian Scott Reynolds Nelson presents three rarely explored aspects of the Civil War.Read full description

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Gary W. Gallagher: Civil War Myths and Misinformation

Published November 17, 2011

Historian Gary W. Gallagher discusses the concept of union in the nineteenth century and its importance in the Civil War.Read full description

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The Civil War @ 150: A Public Program on Civil War Photography

Published November 1, 2011

Come to the Martin Segal Theatre at the CUNY Graduate Center on Thursday, November 3, 2011, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, for the third of our public seminars marking the sesquicentennial of the start of the U.S. Civil War. Supported by a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities, previous programs in the series brought together leading scholars and educators to discuss recent trends in the study of the conflict and the gap between scholarly and popular understanding of the war.

At the November 3rd event, entitled “Is There...Read more

ASHP/CML Awarded IMLS Planning Grant

Published November 1, 2011

We are pleased to announce that the Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), in partnership with the American Social History Project, a National Leadership Planning Grant for Contextualizing the Visual Archive for Teaching. This project is designed to research and prototype an interactive online interface for archives and libraries that will help teachers use historical American images by linking them to rich contextual information as well as to full catalog records. During the planning phase of the grant, we will conduct research among potential users and program a sample set of test images for...Read more

ASHP/CML Launches NEH Summer Institute Website: The Visual Culture of the American Civil War

Published November 1, 2011

We are pleased to announce the launch of our NEH Summer Institute website, The Visual Culture of the American Civil War. On this site you will find information about our July 2012 summer institute for college and university faculty, which we are hosting at the CUNY Graduate Center. The institute will focus on the the Civil War’s array of visual media—including the fine arts, ephemera, and photography—to assess how information and opinion about the war and its impact were recorded and disseminated, and the ways visual media expressed and shaped Americans’ understanding on both sides of the conflict. The...Read more

A Note to CUNY Faculty and Staff

Published November 1, 2011

Planning to make a contribution to the CUNY Campaign? Help ASHP/CML continue to produce teaching materials and bring services to New York City’s history teachers. We are #2949 in the CUNY Campaign list of participating agencies, under “CUNY-Based Organizations.” Thank you!Read more

2016 Institute Faculty

Principal Faculty

  • Joshua Brown is executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S.

Institute Schedule and Syllabus

Pre-institute reading

Winslow Homer, The Letter for HomeLouis P. Masur, The Civil War: A Concise History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011); Alice Fahs, The Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001), pp. 1-61; James W. Cook, “Seeing the Visual in U.S. History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008).

Stipends

NEH Summer Scholars will receive the NEH-stipulated stipend of $2,200 to cover their expenses during the institute. The first check will be paid during the first week and the second during the final week. (Payment will require completing a W9 form, including your Social Security number, and taxes will apply to this stipend.)  Stipends are intended to help cover books and other research expenses, and ordinary living expenses.  Applicants should note that supplements will not be given in cases where the stipend is insufficient to cover all expenses.

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