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Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History Winner
Congratulations to Envisioning Seneca Village on being selected as the 2025 winner of the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History! Envisioning Seneca Village is a project depicting what this significant nineteenth-century village might have looked
Lost in the Park: Roy Rosenzweig’s Public History Legacy
I first learned of Seneca Village in 2020. That summer, people tired of having to explain why Black Lives Matter and with an online audience freshly enraged at racism turned to history to popularize further examples of how Black people in the United States had been systematically dispossessed and di
American Religious Ecologies Team Completes Digitization
American Religious Ecologies seeks to understand how congregations from different religious traditions related to one another by creating new datasets, maps, and visualizations for the history of American religion. After years of photographing, editing, cataloging, and uploading schedules to the Ame
Graduate Student Reflections: Sustainability Summer
This past summer I had the opportunity to work on RRCHNM’s sustainability team. Our work focused on flattening websites built with content management systems (CMS), such as Drupal, Omeka, and WordPress. Flattening refers to the process of simplifying dynamic, database-backed websites to static ver
RRCHNM Receives Funding to Create Teaching Guides on the American Revolution
Funded through the American Historical Association as part of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program, the teaching guides will support history educators in teaching a more comprehensive and complete history of American independence. RRCHNM is proud to announce new grant fundin
Saying Goodbye – Kristin Jacobsen
When the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media runs a job search for a project manager, it’s pretty common to get applicants who have an undergraduate or master’s degree in history. We’re always happy to get applicants who also have museum experience or familiarity with Omeka. It’s
Report from the Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History
From March 19th to March 21st, 2025, the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC hosted the Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History. The conference theme, real-time history, drew on Roy Rosenzweig’s call to action that historians need to directly address the method
Carrying On When the Grants Go Away
Over the past three decades, RRCHNM has received many awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). We’ve used a truly tiny portion of the federal budget to have a huge impact on individuals and communities. Students in public schools use our teaching resources. Visitors to public h
Celebrating Women’s History Month
Since RRCHNM’s founding in the 1990s, we have been committed to highlighting the contributions women made in the past. One of our first projects was a CD-ROM version of the textbook Who Built America? which grew out of efforts to reinterpret American history from “the bottom up”—drawing on s
Teaching, Writing, and Research with AI
When Chat GPT first appeared in November 2022, the almost universal reaction in the humanities community could be summed up in one word – Yikes! Almost without warning this new tool seemed ready to make it incredibly easy for students to “write” essays using prompts that took no more than a mi