The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning aims to revitalize interest in history by challenging the traditional ways that people learn about the past. Founded in 1981 by the late Herbert Gutman and Stephen Brier and based at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, ASHP/CML produces award-winning print, visual, and multimedia materials about the working men and women whose actions and beliefs shaped American history. These include the two volume Who Built America? textbook, Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry Into the Civil War and Reconstruction, ten Who Built America? documentary videos with accompanying Web resources, the CD-ROMs Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914 and Who Built America? From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946, the Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution CD-ROM and Web site, and the Web sites History Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web, The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum American Life and Culture, and Student Voices in World War II and the McCarthy Era.

ASHP/CML also leads faculty development programs that help teachers in New York City and across the country use the latest scholarship, technology, and active learning methods in their classrooms. These programs bring together high school and college faculty from history, English, and other social science and humanities disciplines in intensive summer workshops and ongoing reflective seminars where they develop strategies for enhancing students' reading, writing, and analytic skills. ASHP/CML works with New York City teachers through the Making Connections, and Teaching American History programs; and with college and high school faculty nationwide through the New Media Classroom program.

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning also direct operations for the Graduate Center's New Media Lab where students, faculty and others work on new media projects and research.

Directed by Joshua Brown, ASHP/CML is located at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, in the former B. Altman building at 365 Fifth Avenue. Our facilities house more than a dozen staff --historians, artists, video and multimedia producers, educators, and administrators--who create our multimedia materials and conduct professional development workshops for high school and college teachers. ASHP/CML receives limited support from the City University of New York and must raise the remainder of its operating funds from private foundations, corporations, and government agencies. American Social History Productions, Inc. serves as our not-for-profit subsidiary and holds the copyright to all text, video, and multimedia materials produced by the American Social History Project. ASHP/CML collaborates on many projects with the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in northern Virginia.