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The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning (ASHP/CML) is an academic research center at the City University of New York Graduate Center. ASHP/CML creates public materials and provides services for the teaching and learning of United States social history.

History:
The project was founded in 1981 by historians Herbert Gutman and Stephen Brier as the American Working Class History Project. It grew out of a 1977-80 series of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars that introduced new labor history scholarship to trade union members from diverse occupations and backgrounds. In 1983, with funding from the Ford Foundation, the title became the American Social History Project, reflecting the expansion of its scope and purpose to create a multimedia curriculum for community college and adult education classes on the history of working people in the United States. The result of the first phase of ASHP was the publication of a two-volume trade book, ''Who Built America? Working People and the Nation’s Economy, Politics, Culture and Society'' in 1989 and 1992 as well as a series of supplementary documentaries. In During this time ASHP also collaborated with History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, to create documentaries and hold production workshops about the history of working people in South Africa.

In the 1990s, while producing additional documentaries and new editions of the Who Built America? book, the second phase of ASHP’s work turned to digital and online projects, starting with a 1993 CD-ROM version of Who Built America? produced by the Voyager Company. At this time, ASHP/CML also began developing programs in collaboration with Roy Rosenzweig and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.

HERB: Social History for Every Classroom
HERB is a database of primary documents, classroom activities, and other teaching tools for 6-12 educators in U.S. history classes. The site is named in honor of American Social History Project co-founder Herbert Gutman.

History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web
Designed for both high school and college classrooms, History Matters contains descriptions of and links to websites and first-person primary source documents, guides for analyzing historical evidence, classroom activities, and other resources.

Mission US
ASHP is content developer for the Mission US series, an adventure-style online game in which players take on the role of young people during critical moments in U.S. history. The game is collaboratively created by ASHP, the Educational Development Center, WNET, and Electric Funstuff.

The September 11 Digital Archive
This project is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and presentation of the history of the attacks on September 11th and their 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 2003, the Library of Congress accepted the Archive into its collections.

The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum American Life and Culture
The Lost Museum offers a three-dimensional re-creation of P. T. Barnum’s American Museum.

CUNY Digital History Archive
The CUNY Digital History Archive is a digital public archive and portal that gives the CUNY community and the broader public online access to archival materials related to the history of the City University of New York.

Professional Development:
ASHP/CML provides professional development programs to history faculty at the 6-12 and college levels.

On the 6-12 level, these include past partnerships with school districts in New York City and Pennsylvania to develop and implement Teaching American History professional development programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education, as well as online professional development through their Who Built America Badges for History Education program where history educators earn digital badges by demonstrating competence in instructional design and disciplinary literacy skills.

On the college level, ASHP/CML hosts summer institutes at the Graduate Center for college and university faculty on the visual culture of the American Civil War. It also organized the Bridging Historias professional development programs for community college humanities faculty to help expand the teaching and understanding of Latino history and culture across humanities disciples.

Publications:

 * Who Built America: Working People and the Nation's History, 3rd Edition, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0312446918
 * Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction, The New Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0156584197
 * Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-271-02088-4

External Links:

 * Official Website