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AHA Survey Finds RRCHNM’s Teachinghistory.org and History Matters to be Top Resources for K-12 Teachers
A recent survey of K-12 social studies teachers by the American Historical Association finds that Teachinghistory.org remains a frequently used resource with 56 percent reporting that they used the site. Funded by the Department of Education from 2008 to 2012 and directed by former Director of Educa
American Religious Ecologies Receives Second NEH Grant to Work with 1926 Census of Religious Bodies
We are grateful to acknowledge a second NEH grant in support of our American Religious Ecologies project. The National Endowment for the Humanities announced this week that RRCHNM will receive a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grant for $350,000 to continue our work with the 1926 Cens
Tropy 1.13 Release
The Tropy team is pleased to announce the release of Tropy 1.13. In addition to several performance and user interface improvements (see full release notes here), this release introduces the new standard project type. In standard projects, all imported images are copied into a bundled project folder
The Garden in the Machine: The Impact of American Studies on New Technologies Date: December 1999
Essays The Garden in the Machine: The Impact of American Studies on New Technologies Date: December 1999 by Randy Bass December 1999 Archives, Scholarship This essay is undergoing revision. (Constructive) comments may be sent to the author. Unpublished essay, reprinted with permission from http://ww
Why Collecting History Online is Web 1.5
Essays Why Collecting History Online is Web 1.5 by Sheila A. Brennan and T. Mills Kelly March 2009 Archives, Research It seems like only yesterday that we were transitioning from the first-generation, read-only web to the “read-write web” of Web 2.0, that fosters community and collaboration wher
Introducing DataScribe 101
Fall workshops hosted by the DataScribe project team will further support user exploration of DataScribe 101’s capabilities. Earlier this year, RRCHNM released DataScribe, a structured transcription module for the Omeka S platform. This module enables scholars to identify the structure of the
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 On the night of November 8, 1800, fire devastated the United States War Office, consuming the papers, records, and books stored there. Two weeks later, Secretary of War Samuel Dexter lamented in a letter that “All the papers in my office [have] been destroyed
Making the History of 1989
Making the History of 1989 CHNM received generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the German Historical Institute (Washington D.C.) to create Making the History of 1989, a new website on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989.Making the History of 1989 has thr
The September 11 Digital Archive
The September 11 Digital Archive The September 11 Digital Archive collects, preserves, and presents the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. It has become the leading digital repository of material related to the events of 9/11/2001 and includes more tha
Remembering the Creation of the September 11 Digital Archive
Shortly after the September 11 attacks, the team here at the Center for History and New Media, in collaboration with our partners at the American Social History Project at CUNY…