American Social History Productions Incorporated

What it reported doing in 2025

Who built america? An open educational resource: development of an open educational resource based on our groundbreaking two-volume history textbook, who built america? Working people and the nation's history, in combination with our award-winning history teaching website, history matters: the u.s. Survey course on the web. The oer will offer instructors and students a wholly free, multi-layered, and customizable resource for u.s. History classrooms. Along with adding new content to the oer, conducted in-person and online workshops and shared information at the annual conference of the national social studies association.mission us: development of a series of award-winning, free online history games for middle school classrooms in collaboration with thirteen/wnet. The series has been used by over 3,000,000 students and 80,000 teachers nationwide. In fy25, ashp completed work on mission 8, spirit of a nation, which was publicly launched in 2025. In addition, we have been developing ideas and strategies for continuing funding, testing, and updating of the series.visual culture of the american civil war and its aftermath: we continued developing an existing website that used resources from our summer neh institute, visual culture of the american civil war and its aftermath. This project culminates a decade-long investigation of american visual culture during the civil war funded by the neh.lgbtq+ histories of the united states: submitted a proposal for funding to coordinate a summer institute; proposal to neh was rejected. Offered public speaker series in collaboration with program in social studies education, nyu. Social history for every classroom: worked with students and educators to add new materials to this digital resource, including new collections on lgbtq+ history and new teaching resources.disability rights in nyc: developed and submitted major grant for funding to work with college of staten island, the nyc disability rights archive, and other partners to produce an online archive of primary source materials. The grant was rejected after reaching the second round, and resubmitted in the fall for the 2026 cycle.podcast: continued development of a podcast series, making queer history public, that explores how the work of historians, activists, educators, and archivists have preserved and reclaimed the telling of lgbtq+ history.new media lab: managed computer lab, adding new equipment to assist students and faculty at the graduate center. Conducted hands-on workshops related to media production, ai and digital scholarship, and other topics, offered web-hosting and consultations to students and faculty, and hosted community meetings. Wrote grant proposals to cover costs for new and upgraded equipment. Cuny ai lab: co-launched a multi-centered initiative to develop open ai infrastructure, curriculum, and instructional materials. Applied to several internal and external grants to fund the program

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
• Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -97.3%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.99; rating input score 65; 65th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -89.1% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -9.8% per year; rating input score 0; 25th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: -8.5% per year; rating input score 0; 19th percentile among comparable filings