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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.

Origins
Founded in 1981 by historians Herbert Gutman and Stephen Brier as the American-Working Class History Project, the project grew out of a 1977-80 series of National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminars that introduced new social history scholarship to trade union members from diverse occupations and backgrounds, most of whom had no college experience. Building on the summer seminars, the new project was funded by NEH with the goal of creating a curriculum on the history of U.S. working people using scholarly articles edited for readability and slide tape programs.

"Who Built America" and Documentaries
Confronted by the limited accessibility of academic writing, in 1983 the project turned to writing a synthesis of U.S. social history accompanied by multimedia presentations. With funding from the Ford Foundation to develop curricular materials for community colleges, the now American Social History Project produced a two-volume trade book, ''Who Built America? Working People and the Nations Economy, Politics, Culture and Society,'' published by Pantheon Books in 1989 and 1992,  and a series of documentaries originally produced as slide tape programs, 16 mm film, and videos that have since been digitized for DVD and the web. Subsequent editions of Who Built America? were published by Worth Publishers and Bedford/St. Martins as textbooks in 2000 and 2008.

Professional Development
With the availability of the documentaries and book in 1989, ASHP began a series of professional development programs funded by the Diamond Foundation, Dewitt Wallace-Readers Digest Fund, Pew Charitable Trusts, CUNY Office of Academic Affairs, and New York City Department of Education to bring new social history to instructors at both the community college and high school levels in New York City and nationwide.

Early Digital Adopters
In 1991, ASHP became an early adopter of digital formats in history education in collaboration with The Voyager Company creating the CD-ROM ''Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914'' published in 1993. In 1994, Apple computers included the title as part of its educational package, distributing the material to thousands of schools across the country. Additional digital projects both on CD-ROM and for the web soon followed, several produced collaboration with Roy Rosenzweig and his Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Along with its digital projects, beginning in 1996 ASHP created professional development programs with the NEH funded New Media Classroom to help college faculty develop lesson plans incorporating new digital technologies into  humanities courses, one of the Endowment’s first digital humanities projects. Since the turn of the twenty-first century, ASHP has continued to develop web-based history projects for the public and professional development programs for faculty from middle school through 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