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| APRIL 2004
1. Announcements:
On the Move...Again! We are pleased to announce that the entire staff of the American Social After four years, the education programs of ASHP/CML have left its space in trendy Tribeca to join the rest of the project at 34th and Fifth. And if that wasn't enough, the New Media Lab has relocated from our subterranean quarters on The Graduate Center's “X” level to the 7th floor as well. We can all now be found in the neighborhood of room 7389, so please feel free to stop by! Teaching Traditional American History Program —Historians and Teachers
ASHP/CML’s Historians and Teachers faculty development program kicked off on March 5 with an enthusiastic group of 34 teachers from Region 7 of the New York City public schools. Professor Herbert Sloan of Barnard College lectured on “Was the Constitution a Democratic Document?” and the middle and high school teachers took part in lively analysis and discussion of documents from the ratification debates of 1787 and 1788. The first in a series of five “retreats” designed to give teachers the opportunity to explore topics in U.S. history in the company of noted historians, this day-long session on the Constitution was followed by Long Island University professor Jeanie Attie, who spoke about “The Civil War: From Secession to Gettysburg.” Future sessions of the program will include Professor Elizabeth Ewen on the Progressive Era (April 16), ASHP/CML Executive Director Joshua Brown on the Gilded Age (May 3), and Professor Komozi Woodard on the Civil Rights Movement (May 27). In late June, teachers will take part in a week-long summer institute where, guided by ASHP/CML staff, they will work in small groups to explore these topics in greater depth and develop lessons for use with their students. Historians and Teachers is supported by the Teaching Traditional American History grant from the U.S. Department of Education. Young America: Experiences of Youth in U.S. History Learning to Look Faculty Development Program – Call for Participants This summer a number of ASHP/CML Learning to Look (LtL) new media and pedagogy centers will conduct weeklong institutes on teaching with visual sources, followed by workshops and online communication throughout the year. As in previous summers, each LtL center will focus on ways that visual sources and new media pedagogy can enhance the teaching of various eras, subjects, and themes in U.S. history. Centers will also collaborate with local art and historical institutions to support broader goals and methods for teaching and learning about the past.
Providing a mix of presentation, demonstration, and hands-on work, participants will engage with such topics as how to teach the Gilded Age using paintings and illustrations from the 1870s and looking at the Great Depression through New Deal murals. 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 online archival resources. Some centers are still accepting applications through June 2004. 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 .
ASHP/CML Seminar Quagmire: The History of An Idea ASHP/CML, in cooperation with the Office of Continuing Education and Public Programs at The Graduate Center, will host a special seminar on Tuesday, April 27, 2004, on "Quagmire: The History of an Idea." For more than a century, the U.S. military has marched off to engage in “splendid little wars" only to find itself mired in drawn-out occupations, contested by both the occupied populations and by critics at home. “Quagmire,” popularized as a metaphor during the war in Vietnam, has become a shorthand way to discuss recent imperial ventures gone awry. This public seminar will bring together historians and writers to explore the history of U.S. military intervention in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and its media representations at home, drawing links between past and present and providing historical context for the widely invoked idea of “quagmire.” Panelists will include Christian Appy, author of Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides; Mary A Renda, Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies, Mount Holyoke College, and author of Taking Haiti: Military Occupation an the Culture of U.S. Imperialism; Marilyn Young, Professor of History, New York University, and author of The Vietnam Wars, 1945–1990; and Pennee Bender (Moderator), Associate Director, ASHP/CML. The event is free, and will take place from 6 to 8 pm in Room C-201 at The Graduate Center. |
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| OCTOBER 2004
Feature Article:
1. As we begin our 24th year . . . . . . our range of projects grows as our dedication to advancing public knowledge about the past and the history of working people intensifies. ASHP/CML may have achieved a venerable age, but we're still eager to embark on new ventures that, we hope, promote learning about the past and stretch the parameters of *how* we learn. To name just a few ongoing activities: While continuing our fifteen-year collaborative work in New York's high schools, we have inaugurated several faculty institutes under the federal Teaching American History faculty-development program. Our social history-rich websites are being complemented by professional development and new media projects that focus on critical use of visual evidence in exploring the past. And our New Media Lab and participation in The Graduate Center's Interactive Technology and Pedagogy certificate program are direct interventions in shaping the future of innovative new media scholarship and teaching. Fortunately, our efforts on occasion receive recognition: most recently, the New Jersey Historical Society's “What Exit? New Jersey and Its Turnpike” website, produced by ASHP/CML, was awarded the Special Web Art Bronze Award from UNESCO's International Committee of Museums for Audiovisual, Image, and Sound New Technologies. So, as ASHP/CML nears a quarter-century, even as we face some uncertainties and obstacles, we look forward to a new year of vigorous and creative work.
2. NEH EDSITEment Project: "Lessons of History" In conjunction with David Jaffee of The City College of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, ASHP/CML was awarded a contract to produce “Lessons of History,” interactive classroom activities for the National Endowment for the Humanities' EDSITEment website. Building on CUNY's “Investigating U.S. History” project, ASHP/CML will work with teachers and scholars to create 24 interactive activities on Colonial America, the American Revolution and Constitution, FDR and the New Deal, and the 1960s to the 1980s. These new teaching resources will be available on the EDSITEment site in early 2007. 3. Teaching American History Grants In July ASHP/CML was a partner in two Teaching American History grants awarded to the New York City public schools by the U.S. Department of Education. ASHP/CML will be the lead partner working with middle and high school teachers in NYC's Region 4, made up of schools in western Queens and the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. This program will provide teachers with a series of five day-long retreats, each featuring a noted historian and focused on a different topic in U.S. History, along with a week-long summer institute and ASHP curriculum materials. Other partners in the grant, who will host retreats and introduce teachers to their resources, include the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn Historical Society, and Museum of Television and Radio. Bill Tally of the Education Development Center will conduct research to evaluate the program¹s effectiveness.
4. October 4th Public Seminar: New York Underground Five aficionados of New York's subterranean past will participate in a panel discussion that explores the history of the city's literal "lower depths." The participants include Julia Solis, author of New York Underground; Robert Sullivan, author of Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants; Chris Neville, lecturer for Place Matters on the Marble Cemetery; and Anne-Marie Cantwell and Diana diZerega Wall, authors of Unearthing Gotham: The Archaeology of New York City. This free event, sponsored by ASHP/CML, The Gotham Center, City Lore, and the Continuing Education program will take place on Monday, October 4th, at 6:30 in the Elebash Recital Hall of the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue. 5. 2004 Herbert G. Gutman Memorial Lecture
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Alice Kessler-Harris, R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University and author of, most recently, the Bancroft Prize-winning In Pursuit of Equity: How Gender Shaped American Economic Citizenship, will discuss "Thinking Globally: Paradoxes of a Gendered Labor History." The free event will be held on Thursday, October 7, at 6:30 in the Skylight Room (Room 9100) at The Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue. The lecture series, co-sponsored by ASHP/CML and The Graduate Center's Center for the Humanities and Ph.D. Program in History, is dedicated to the memory of the late labor historian and ASHP/CML co-founder Herbert Gutman.