The 1918 prosecution of Eugene Debs under the Espionage Act—and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's later change of mind—is the first moment explored in a new, four-module teaching guide on the contested history of free speech in America.
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Congratulations to Envisioning Seneca Village!
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How Roy Rosenzweig's research on Seneca Village sparked decades of archaeological discovery, public exhibits, and a digital reconstruction of the Black community displaced to build Central Park.
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After years of photographing, editing, and cataloging, the American Religious Ecologies team has uploaded every surviving schedule from the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies.
Read more →PhD student Savannah Scott reflects on the challenges of flattening the 98,000-item 9/11 Digital Archive into a static site and building search for it.
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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 …
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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 …
Read more →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 …
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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? …
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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 …
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Just a couple miles from RRCHNM is the campus of Woodson High School, part of the Fairfax County Public School system. Until this past year the school was named for W. T. Woodson, the long time …
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At the start of January, I had the privilege of attending the American Historical Association and presenting a poster for the Religious Ecologies project. While it was fun to put the poster together …
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