ASHP/CML has been at the forefront of history on the web since the mid-1990s, producing a variety of websites where teachers, students, and the general public can discover the past. Our subjects range from revolutionary France to the twenty-first century U.S. and points in between. We’ve developed primary document and oral history archives, teaching tools, and 3-D re-creations that help users explore such places in the past as P. T. Barnum’s American Museum in 1865, New York City’s Chinatown after the September 11th attacks, and Brooklyn College in the 1950s. We continue to develop new web projects that showcase the latest historical thinking, rich archival resources, and the best new digital tools available.

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9/11 Digital Archive: On September 11, 2001, people around the world reacted to the attacks by using the Internet and digital media. This project is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and presentation of the history of that day and its aftermath. The Archive contains more than 150,000 digital items, including more than 40,000 emails and other electronic communications, more than 40,000 first-hand stories, and more than 15,000 digital images. In September 2003, the Library of Congress accepted the Archive into its collections, making it the Library’s first major digital acquisition. The site was produced by ASHP/CML and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Ground One: Voices from Post-911 Chinatown: Presenting more than two dozen oral history interviews with Chinese Americans (available in both Chinese and English), this site explores how the events of September 11, 2001 indelibly changed one Manhattan neighborhood. The site was created collaboratively by ASHP/CML, the Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, and New York University’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution: This site introduces the extraordinary events of the French Revolution, from its origins in eighteenth-century French society through its legacies in the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte and after. It includes essays by scholars that survey the Revolution’s major themes and a searchable archive of more than 600 primary sources. This site was produced by ASHP/CML and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, with support from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A book and CD-ROM of the same name are available from Penn State University Press. 

Zoom In: This project features 18 skill-focused, document-rich lessons on social history topics that address every era of U.S. history. These interactive inquiries engage students in reading documents closely, gathering evidence, and writing an argumentative or explanatory essay. Each lesson includes all the materials teachers need— a compelling hook, slides with essential context, a variety of historical sources, carefully designed reading materials, and discussion prompts and templates for writing well-structured essays. Created in partnership with Education Development Center.