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| JUNE 2003
1. Feature Article: Learning To Look Launches National Network Of Summer Institutes
Learning To Look Launches National Network of Summer Institutes How might illustrations by Frederic Remington, paintings by Alfred Bierstadt, and sculptures by Edmonia Lewis help advance our understanding of the frontier past? What can students learn from a nineteenth-century slave narrative set alongside J. T. Zealy's 1850 photographic portraits of Columbia, South Carolina, slaves "Delia" and "Jack"? And what questions about the past does such evidence leave unanswered? The study of visual sources has advanced in significant ways in recent years due in large part to the development of multimedia technologies such as the Internet. Simultaneously, cross-disciplinary collaborations among scholars studying and educators teaching American history and culture have improved students' ability to interpret and contextualize visual sources. This summer, ASHP/CML's national network of new media and pedagogy centers will undertake a promising course of study for improving teaching about the past through the use of visual sources. With support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/index_new.html is engaging a broad range of participants -- teachers of U.S. history and culture, art historians, museum educators, and archivists -- in an interdisciplinary dialogue that provides participating faculty with: 1) a sense of the scope and nature of visual sources available on the World Wide Web, including illustration, painting, public art, photography, advertising, and film; 2) an understanding of the interpretive questions scholars ask of visual sources; and 3) models for how to use visual sources to enhance students' understanding of American history and culture. Located on ten high school and college/university campuses around the country, Learning to Look (LtL) centers will conduct weeklong summer seminars on teaching with visual sources, followed by workshops and online communication throughout the year. Each center will address the theme of visual sources and new media pedagogy through various themes in American history, including life and culture in the 1920s and 30s, multicultural studies, African/African American history, and regional history. Each LtL center will also consult with local art, historical, and cultural institutions to add a new collaborative aspect to this program, combining LtL's broad goals with its own particular regional and/or thematic focus. Providing a mix of presentation, demonstration, and hands-on work, participants will engage with such topics as how to teach slavery using paintings and illustrations from the antebellum period and looking at the early national period through portraits of George Washington. Interactive learner guides from ASHP/CML and the Center for History and New Media (GMU)'s History Matters Web site will be introduced as teacher-friendly tools for interpreting evidence, featuring methods for examining photographs, letters and diaries, films, advertisements, and other source materials. Some centers are still accepting applications for summer institutes through June 2003. Go to http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/centers.shtml for a list of center locations and contact information or email Donna Thompson Ray, project director: DThompson@gc.cuny.edu.
September 11 Digital Archive Makes History! In May, 2003 the Library of Congress announced that The September 11 Digital Archive -- a joint project of ASHP/CML and CHNM funded by the Sloan Foundation -- will become the first digital acquisition in the Library's history. This unprecedented accession to the institution's holdings, scheduled for December 2003, will ensure both the long-term stability and future accessibility of the Archive's collection. Based on a recognition that the "historical record" is no longer purely made of paper, but also of email, Web sites, digital photos, online discussion forums, and other electronic forms of communication, The September 11 Digital Archive http://www.911digitalarchive.org uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the attacks and the outpouring of public responses to them. The September 11 Digital Archive addresses not only the history of the event itself, but larger questions of how the emergence of new electronic media and networks will change the collection, preservation, and writing of history. The Archive's far-reaching collection of over 200,000 digital object has received extensive coverage in a variety of media outlets, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and NPR. Making Connections Funded to Work With New Small Schools JPMorganChase awarded ASHP/CML a $10,000 grant to support our teacher professional development work with new small schools in New York City. This one-year grant for the 2003 calendar year is enabling us to provide support to humanities teachers in the areas of content, pedagogy, and curriculum development at a July 2003 Summer Institute. Grant Enriches September 11 Digital Archive ASHP -- in collaboration with the Museum of Chinese in the Americas, the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, and NYU's Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute -- is pleased to announce the receipt of a $150,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for the Chinatown Documentation Project (CDP). The CDP aims, through facilitated dialogues and recorded oral histories, to foster thoughtful community conversations and reflections on the consequences of September 11 for Chinatown and its residents. The CDP will present these dialogues and oral histories over the Internet so that they might serve as a resource for the community's articulation of its identity and defining of its future. The materials gathered will extend the mission of the September 11 Digital Archive and enrich its already broad collection. New Jersey Turnpike Web Site Gets Honorable Mention
In 2002 The New Jersey Historical Society commissioned ASHP/CML to create a Web site based on its popular What Exit: New Jersey and Its Turnpike exhibit. The American Association of Museums recently awarded the site an honorable mention: http://www.jerseyhistory.org/what_exit/index.html.
Upcoming Conference: Innovations in Collaboration: A School-University Model to Enhance History Teaching On June 26-28, 2003 The American Historical Association, National Council for the Social Studies, and Organization of American Historians will co-sponsor the Innovations in Collaboration conference to showcase model programs where K-12 and university educators are working together in innovative ways to enhance the teaching of history. 130 individuals from elementary and secondary schools, colleges and universities, and museums are expected to present at this conference, including Eric Foner of Columbia University, a long-time advisor and Board member of ASHP. For more than a decade, ASHP/CML has nurtured collaborations between college faculty and secondary school history teachers, helping them incorporate new scholarship and active learning methods into their classrooms. ASHP/CML will be presenting a session called Critical Inquiry and Collaborative Professional Development: Models from the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, where we will illustrate the approach we have taken to building successful partnerships and strengthening teaching and learning in American history classrooms. Panel Presenters: Eliza Fabillar, Education Co-Director, ASHP/CML; William Friedheim, Associate Professor of History, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY; Angela Darrenkamp, Social Studies Teacher, Phoenixville Area Middle School, Pennsylvania. Labor at The Crossroads Summer Schedule After fifteen years Labor at the Crossroads, New York's only monthly labor program about issues affecting working people, is discontinuing production. Labor at the Crossroads, better known as LABOR X, began in 1988 as a collaboration between ASHP/CML and the CUNY Association for Worker Education. Over its fifteen years, succeeding LABOR X producers Liz Sheehan, Tami Gold, and Simin Farkhondeh and executive producer Steve Brier produced more than seventy programs on topics such as immigrant and gay and lesbian worker rights, racism on the job, NAFTA and GATT, various union organizing drives, prison labor, and sweatshops. Although we are unable to continue to produce the series, LABOR X programs will remain available for sale and distribution. This summer Labor at the Crossroads will air several documentaries by a range of labor media producers. See program descriptions and airdates for the New York area below: Chicago Muzahaira: Stop Attacks on Immigrants. On February 15, 2003, a significant anti-war demonstration took place in Chicago¹s Pakistani neighborhood in tandem with international actions. A coalition of 100 organizations planned the event, which significantly differed from earlier protests because it took place where working people and immigrants live. The "muzahaira" on Devon Avenue showed the grassroots basis of the Chicago movement against the war. Produced by Labor Beat, 2003. In all five New York boroughs on CUNY-TV (Cable Channel 75) are Labor and the New Imperialism. Chicago trade unionists discuss their opposition to the Iraq war. With Steve Edwards, President of AFSCME 2858; Mark Position, Recording Secretary. Teamsters Local 705; Cynthia Rodriguez, Vice President, SEIU Local 73; Barry Romo, National Coordinator VVAW and Shop Steward, National Postal Mailhandlers Union; James Thwinda, Executive Director, Chicago Jobs with Justice; and Katie Jordan. Produced by Labor Beat, 2003. In all five New York boroughs on CUNY-TV (Cable Channel 75) Italy Stopped Italy Protest, Part I. After the elections of summer of 2001 in Italy, the new government led by Silvio Berlusconi launched an attack on more than 50 years of gains achieved by Italian workers. The major focus of the attack was to abolish Article 18 of the Worker¹s Statute, which forces employers to take back any worker who has been fired without just cause. This two-part program looks at the massive struggle by trade unions to oppose the government. Produced by Stefano Stefani/ Atelier Distribuzione in collaboration with l¹Unita of Italy. Wednesday, August 20 at 10:00 AM, 3:00PM, 8:00PM |
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| SEPTEMBER 2003
1. Feature Article: Learning to Look Summer Institutes
Learning To Look Summer Institutes This summer, ASHP/CML’s longstanding teaching with technology program, the New Media Classroom (NMC), conducted week-long institutes for our latest faculty development initiative, Learning to Look: Visual Evidence and the U.S. Past in the New Media Classroom.
The Learning to Look (LtL) institutes—which took place at Miillersville University (PA); Washington State University (WA); Assumption College (MA); CUNY’s Graduate Center and City College Center for Worker Education (NY); Spelman College (GA); Dillard University (LA); Maryville College (TN); and Mott Community College and Middle College HS (MI).—provided participating faculty with access to new scholarship in the field of U.S. history and American studies using visual evidence as a means to study the past. Featuring humanities educators from high school and college classrooms, along with museum and historical archive professionals, the goal of each institute centered on building successful strategies for interpreting and critically evaluating visual resources for effective interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Using a wide range of new media teaching resources in American history, art history, and literature, each institute addressed various topics and themes in the U.S. past, including African-American culture, regional history, the Interwar Years and the changing nature of American visual culture, and working class history. The institutes featured such curricular resources as the newly launched Learner Guides from the History Matters Web site, which help students analyze and interpret photographs, advertisements, films, and other forms of primary evidence; Fotonotes, an online “seeing and writing” tool; and classroom-tested inquiry learning activities using image archives found on the Web. The Learning to Look summer institutes included programming from our three new Regional Centers: Spelman College (GA); the CUNY Center for Worker Education (NY); and Dillard University (LA). For further information on the Learning to Look faculty development program and our yearlong activities, contact Donna Thompson Ray at: DThompson@gc.cuny.edu.
Library of Congress Aquires The September 11 Digital Archive The Library of Congress will mark its first major digital acquisition of September 11, 2001, materials with the addition to its collections of The September 11 Digital Archive (http://911digitalarchive.org). The Digital Archive is a joint project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and George Mason University's Center for History and New Media - two organizations that have explored digital history for more than a decade. On Sept. 10, 2003 the Library of Congress will formally accept the material, which contains more than 135,000 written accounts, e-mails, audio recordings, video clips, photographs, Web sites and other digital materials that document the attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and western Pennsylvania and their aftermath. These items will provide researchers with a major source of information about the attacks. "Even in the midst of the initial chaos of the horrific events of September 11, 2001, the Library of Congress began collecting materials documenting the attacks," said Diane Kresh, director of the Library's Public Service Collections. "Since that time, the Library has been amassing material through its public service divisions and overseas offices. This September 11 Digital Archive, with its vast content of firsthand accounts, will add to the broad range and diversity of materials already acquired by the Library of Congress that relate to the September 11 tragedy." These digital materials offer a wide spectrum of opinions and perspectives, ranging from recordings of Manhattan residents' voicemails on the morning of September 11 to drawings by children from Los Angeles depicting the attacks. "As with other collective historical events," said Eric Foner, Columbia University DeWitt Clinton Professor of History, "the memory of September 11 will be an essential part of historical understanding in the future. By preserving the raw material of history -- which now includes evidence recorded in digital form -- The September 11 Digital Archive will help contribute to subsequent generations' understanding of the past and, therefore, of themselves." The Archive is the largest digital collection of September 11-related materials, serving as the Smithsonian Institution's designated repository for digital objects related to the attacks. The availability of these materials in the Library of Congress will prove invaluable to future historians and researchers. To mark the acquisition of The Digital Archive, the Library of Congress will host a daylong symposium, "September 11 as History: Collecting Today for Tomorrow." The event, which will take place in the Library's Coolidge Auditorium on September 10, will feature commentary by leading U.S. historians, librarians, and archivists, including Ronald Walters, University of Maryland, and Michael Kazin, Georgetown University. Kazin’s keynote address is "12/12 and 9/11: Tales of Power and Tales of Experience in Contemporary History." New York Community Trust Awards ASHP/CML Grant To Work With New Small Schools The New York Community Trust awarded ASHP/CML a $60,000 grant in support of a two-year education program. The grant provides partial funding for a partnership between ASHP/CML and a consortium of eight new small theme-based schools in the Bronx, New York. ASHP/CML will provide sustained professional and curriculum development support to participating humanities teachers. ASHP/CML Holds Teacher Institutes for New Small Schools With support from JPMorganChase, ASHP/CML conducted a two-day teacher institute on August 25th and 26th at the CUNY Graduate Center. Focusing on Slavery and Reconstruction, hands-on workshops provided participating faculty with rich social history content and innovative teaching strategies.
Using ASHP/CML curriculum materials, sample sessions included an activity analyzing the nature and meaning of slave resistance using the video, Doing As They Can: Slave Life in the American South; a visual literacy exercise investigated the Eastman Johnson painting, A Ride for Liberty; and participants surveyed the History Matters Web site. English and social studies teachers commented on the value of ASHP/CML resources in enhancing their curriculum. The Chinatown Documentation Project
In collaboration with The Museum of Chinese in the Americas, the Columbia University Oral History Research Office, and New York University's Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute, ASHP/CML has received a $150,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation for The Chinatown Documentation Project (CDP). The CDP aims, through facilitated dialogues and recorded oral histories, to foster thoughtful community conversations and reflections on the consequences The gathered materials will extend the mission of The September 11 Digital Archive and enrich its already broad collection. For further information on the Chinatown Documentation Project, contact Fritz Umbach at: ghu1@cornell.edu.
"Talking History" Online Forum From History Matters http://historymatters.gmu.edu/browse/talkhist/ ASHP/CML Seminar Schools in Crisis?: Historical Perspectives on City School Reform This free public event, sponsored by ASHP/CML and The Graduate Center’s Continuing Education Program, will bring together historians and activists to discuss the current dilemmas facing urban education, their historical origins, and their potential remedies. Panelists include: Adina Back, Visiting Fellow, New York University Institute for Education and Social Policy; John Spencer, Assistant Professor of Education, Rowan University; an invited representative of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, a coalition of parent organizations, community school boards, concerned citizens and advocacy groups that seeks to reform New York State's school finance system to ensure adequate resources and the opportunity for a sound basic education for all students in New York City; and Jean Anyon, Professor of Urban Education, The Graduate Center, CUNY, and author of Ghetto Schooling: A Political Economy of Urban Educational Reform. |
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1. Announcements:
ASHP/CML Is on the Move! With the start of the new year, the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning will bid a fond farewell to our TriBeca offices. After more than eight years at 99 Hudson Street, the entire ASHP/CML staff will be united in one complex of offices and facilities on the 7th floor of the CUNY Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan. This move will not only So, beginning on January 19th please redirect your ASHP/CML postal mail and compass settings to Center for Media and Learning, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Our e-mails will (thankfully) remain the same and watch our website for updated phone numbers and extensions. Library of Congress Receives 911 Digital Archive
The September 11 Digital Archive - a joint endeavor of ASHP/CML and George Mason University's Center for History and New Media -- has partnered with the Library of Congress (LC) to insure the long-term preservation of the Archive's holdings. The Library's accessioning of the collection represents the first major digital acquisition in that institution's history. On Sept. 10, 2003 the LC formally accepted the collection, which contains more than 135,000 written accounts, e-mails, audio recordings, video clips, photographs, websites, and other materials that document the attacks and their aftermath. To mark the donation, the Library hosted a daylong symposium, "September 11 as History: Collecting Today for Tomorrow," featuring reports and commentary by leading U.S. historians, librarians, archivists, as well as by Josh Brown, ASHP's executive director, and Fritz Umbach, the Archive's co-director. Excerpts from the event were broadcast over C-SPAN during Fall 2003.
The Archive is the largest digital collection of September 11-related materials, serving as the Smithsonian Institution's designated repository for digital objects related to the attacks. These digital materials offer a wide spectrum of international opinions and perspectives, ranging from recordings of Manhattan residents' voice mails on the morning of September 11 to digital commentary culled from organizations in the Middle East . The availability of these materials in the Library of Congress will prove invaluable to future historians and researchers. Teaching American History Grants In September, ASHP/CML and Region 7 of the New York City Department of Education received funding from the federal Department of Education’s Teaching American History program. This grant, totaling nearly one million dollars, will support Historians and Teachers: A Partnership to Improve Knowledge, Teaching, and Learning in American History, a three-year project with middle and high school social studies teachers in Region 7 (which encompasses Staten Island and parts of Brooklyn). Also involving the Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Museum of Art, and Educational Development Corporation, Historians and Teachers will hold day-long retreats with historians and a week-long summer institute during which participating teachers will be introduced to the historiography, defining documents, and methods of historical inquiry for four historical periods . Teachers will also work in small groups to create curriculum units that they will test, refine, and ultimately publish in print and online versions for region-wide use. ASHP's New Media Classroom teaching-with-technology faculty development program has been selected as a provider for Greencastle Antrim School District's U.S. Department of Education's Teaching American History Grant. Located in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, the district's grant represents a network of over three rural school districts. From 2003-6, the New Media Classroom will conduct professional development institutes, guide curriculum development projects, and provide mentoring to participating teachers. Other providers for the grant are Facing History, and the National Council for History Education. |
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