CHNM Director recognized for “excellence in the humanities”
In a ceremony held December 9, 2004 at Old Town Hall in Fairfax, Virginia, CHNM Director, Roy Rosenzweig was presented with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ Award for Excellence in th
New Echo website launched
Echo: Exploring and Collecting History Online – Science, Technology, and Industry (http://echo.gmu.edu/) announces the launch of its redesigned, expanded, and improved website. Funded by the Alf
September 11 Digital Archive featured on WGN
CHNM Assistant Director Tom Scheinfeldt discusses the September 11 Digital Archive on Chicago’s WGN Radio 720 “Nick at Night” show. Click here to listen to the interview.
September 11 Digital Archive posts visitor response cards from Smithsonian exhibition
From September 11, 2002 to July 6, 2003, more than 1 million people from around the world visited “September 11: Bearing Witness to History,” an exhibit at the National Museum of American
September 11 Digital Archive guarantees preservation of Here Is New York gallery
Here Is New York, the online gallery of images depicting the September 11 attacks and their aftermath, will not go the way of most website content, vanishing forever into the cyber-ether: Rather, this
History Matters recognized by the American Library Association
The American Library Association’s Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) committee included History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web on its sixth annual list of Best Free Reference
NIH, CHNM launch Web exhibit exploring history of home pregnancy tests
On the 25th anniversary of the home pregnancy test kit, the National Institutes of Health and CHNM launched A Thin Blue Line, a new web exhibit that explores the history of the pregnancy test kit from
NASA, ECHO launch Web exhibit on Columbia space shuttle
One year after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the NASA History Office has partnered with ECHO’s Shuttle Archive to collect personal reflections on space exploration as part of an online ex
CHNM takes on DoHistory
In November 2003, CHNM acquired DoHistory, a website that explores the life of eighteenth-century New England midwife Martha Ballard, whose diary was the basis for Lauren Thatcher Ulrich’s Pulit
CHNM co-hosts forum on website design
In October 2003, CHNM and Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship hosted “What Can Good Web Design Do for Humanities Projects: Reflections and Case Studies.”