LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States
Since 2020, the ASHP has supported and promoted the efforts of educators and public historians focused on LGBTQ+ history.
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Teaching programs, digital curriculum resources, and podcasts
Summer Institutes for Middle and High School teachers: in 2022 and 2024, ASHP organized and hosted NEH-funded summer programs for secondary school educators who want to incorporate LGBTQ+ history into history, social studies, and other classes.
-Reflections from 2022 institute participants
In 2020-2021, ASHP worked with scholars and classroom teachers to develop 20 middle and high school lessons for Hidden Voices: LGBTQ+ Stories in United States History. These lessons were distributed to teachers throughout the NYC public school system and are available to other educators online.
Primary sources, suggested teaching activities and other LGBTQ+-related materials are being added to Social History for Every Classroom. See the Military History and the LGBTQ+ Community collection of documents and a forthcoming collection LGBTQ+ Struggles for Equality and Justice in the Twentieth Century.
Making Queer History Public, three thematic issues of ASHP’s podcast series, focus on efforts to collect and preserve LGBTQ+ history and for inclusive education. Funded with the support of Humanities New York and the CUNY LGBTQ+ Consortium.