The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce that it has received a three-year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support Mapping American Religious Ecologies. The generous funding comes from the Humanities Collections and Reference Resources program within the NEH’s Division of Preservation and Access. Mapping American […]
Alyssa Fahringer will be presenting “Papers of the War Department: Updating the Digital Edition and Community Transcription Project” in the lightning round on Women in Digital and Public History at the Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians in Philadelphia on Saturday, April 6, 2019
Sean Takats will be presenting “How to build a research tool for historians? Tropy as a case study” at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, September 26, 2018, at 2.00pm.
We are happy to announce a day of workshops and activities for developers and users of Omeka S on June 22, 2018. The event will include an overview of the design of Omeka S, as well as introductions to resources (mostly items, but other things as well), module, and site development from the Omeka team. […]
There are four sessions involving RRCHNM on the program at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington DC: (1) Teaching Hidden History: Learning by Developing Digital Modules (Saturday, 1/6/2018, 1.30PM-3.00PM) Kelly Schrum & Nate Sleeter (2) Arguing with Digital History: A Roundtable on Using Digital History to Make Arguments for Academic Audiences […]
Our second short annual report has recently been mailed out to RRCHNM’s friends and supporters. Produced in collaboration with the Development Office of College of Humanities and Social Sciences, the annual report describes project launches and grants for new projects in the academic year 2016-2016. In it you can find brief descriptions of five of those new projects, and […]
Stephen Robertson is presenting in the roundtable, “Race, Digital Humanities, and the Region,” at Race, Memory & the Digital Humanities Symposium, at the College of William & Mary, October 28.
During the summer of 2016, Sharon M. Leon and Sheila A. Brennan led a second Doing Digital History institute for advanced topics in digital humanities (IATDH) funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities together with an amazing team of graduate student mentors and visiting scholars. The final report and white […]
RRCHNM Graduate Research Assistant, Sara Collini, will present a poster session entitled “Eagle Eye Citizen: Interactive Engagement with Civics and History” at the ISTE 2017 annual conference in San Antonio, TX. Come learn how solving and creating online challenges using Library of Congress primary sources can help students develop historical thinking skills and civic understanding.
Kelly Schrum will be presenting to Wellesley College faculty on “Digital Storytelling in Higher Education.”