Public history at work.
ASHP Podcast presents public-history conversations and talks from the American Social History Project. Recent episodes trace queer archives, trans oral history, inclusive classroom practice, and future-facing monuments as forms of public memory.
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ASHP Podcast is a public-history series rooted in the American Social History Project Center for Media and Learning. It looks at how history moves from archives, classrooms, museums, and research projects into public use. Recent episodes make that work concrete. The Making Queer History Public sequence follows LGBTQ+ history through archives, oral-history practice, inclusive curriculum, and teaching collections. Its focus is not only what happened in the past. The show keeps returning to who preserves evidence, who gets access to it, and how educators turn difficult records into usable public knowledge. One episode centers LGBTQ+ archives with Steven G. Fullwood. Another discusses trans lives and oral history with Michelle O'Brien, including the ethics of community control, vulnerability, and compensation in collecting stories. Later episodes move into classrooms, where Rachel Pitkin talks with educators about inclusive education law, lesson structures, cultural competency, and resistance to teaching queer and trans history. The fifth Making Queer History Public episode shifts to Tristan, a high school student in Brooklyn, and a teaching collection called In Their Own Words, Crossing Gender in the 18th and 19th Centuries. That episode is especially attentive to language, source gaps, and the care required when archival records do not clearly preserve a person's own words about identity. The feed also reaches beyond queer public history. Monuments of the Future, with Kubi Ackerman, asks how museums might memorialize the present and the future and send warnings or messages to future generations. Climate crisis, inequality, public space, and speculative memorials sit beside classroom practice and archival preservation. Across these episodes, ASHP Podcast favors patient explanation over personality-driven commentary. It sounds like a working room for historians, educators, students, and cultural workers. The value is in process: how people build responsible access to social history, how they teach it, and how they argue for its place in public life. The result is practical, reflective history audio for listeners interested in the machinery behind public memory.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants history connected to archives, classrooms, museums, and public memory. It is especially useful for someone interested in LGBTQ+ public history and teaching with primary sources.
What sets it apart: ASHP Podcast stands apart by focusing on the work of making history public: preservation, curriculum, source interpretation, and access. The show treats educators, students, archivists, and cultural workers as central figures in historical practice.
The American Social History Project · Center for Media and Learning is dedicated to renewing interest in history by challenging traditional ways that people learn about the past. Founded in 1981 and based at the City University of New York Graduate Center, ASHP/CML produces print, visual, and multimedia materials that explore the richly diverse social and cultural history of the United States. We also lead professional development seminars that help teachers to use the latest scholarship, technology, and active learning methods in their classrooms.
Stonewall testimony meets a classroom lesson plan, and your history textbook starts looking suspiciously thin.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A grounded discussion of teaching LGBTQ+ history while classrooms sit inside a larger political fight.
Teaching LGBTQ+ history becomes a practical test of what history education is meant to do in the fourth episode of ASHP's Making Queer History Public.
A focused look at New Jersey educators turning inclusive education law into classroom practice.
New Jersey educators' push to secure LGBTQ+ history in schools gives this episode a clear frame: how the state's inclusive education law moved LGBTQ+ topics into curriculum and classroom life.
A vivid Stonewall memory opens into a grounded look at trans oral history and the politics of who gets to hold the record.
The episode begins in the charged memory of Stonewall: raids treated as routine, lights snapping on, people pushed into the street, and then a crowd that would not move along.
A clear, grounded look at how LGBTQ+ history is preserved and shared in public institutions.
Making Queer History Public starts with a focused editorial question: how do historians and other knowledge workers bring LGBTQ+ history into public view?
Fast chat, blunt laughs, real-life oversharing.
Real stories for bold, curious kids.
Land, collapse, and radical ecology.
Afro-Hebraic scripture with historical fire.
Childhood history, argued through evidence.
Sex work history with sharp community memory.
Rachel Pitkin opens Making Queer History Public with an AHA report, a two-year investigation into American secondary schools, and uses it to frame why LGBTQ+ history belongs in classrooms.
New Jersey's 2019 LGBTQ-responsive curriculum law is the center of Making Queer History Public Episode 3, which tracks how queer history is pushed into classrooms.
Miss Major describes Stonewall as a routine police bar raid across the United States that turned into a fight when people finally refused to leave.
Audre Lorde opens Making Queer History Public by describing 1950s Village queer women as outsiders and "the gay girl's version of the beatniks," which sets up an episode about how LGBTQ+ history reaches the public.
Kubi Ackerman uses the Future City Lab at the Museum of the City of New York to question how museums represent an unknowable future.