 Past/Present is a collaboration among leaders from the worlds of filmmaking, game design, education, and online learning. To contact our team, write to us at pastpresent@cnam.com. The Center for New American Media is well-known to public television viewers as the organization behind such films as People Like Us: Social Class in America, Small Ball: A Little League Story, and American Tongues. CNAM’s films, created by producers Louis Alvarez, Andrew Kolker, and Peter Odabashian, have won two Peabody Awards and two duPont-Columbia Awards and have been widely seen on PBS over the last two decades. Muzzy Lane Software is best known for their sophisticated World War II simulation game Making History, which is featured in college-level history classes. Muzzy Lane is a leader in games for learning, and works with partners including Pearson Education, DARPA, and others. Their games include the Making History series, an noted line of historical strategy games that has been used in hundreds of classrooms across the United States. Maryland Public Television is a leading public television station that has pioneered the integration of digital tools and games into the realms of both the schools and public television. Their educational portal is called Thinkport and they are currently launching an online algebra game called Lure of the Labyrinth into the schools. Past/Present has been supported by a generous development grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's American History and Civics Initiative  
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