Saying Goodbye — Ken Albers
Sixteen years ago, Ken Albers was a new doctoral student in history here at George Mason University. Part of his program included being assigned as a graduate research assistant at what was then known
New Directions at RRCHNM
Fifteen years ago a team of faculty, students, and developers here at RRCHNM began an ambitious new project. They wanted to create a browser plug-in that would allow users to capture and save things t
Documenting, Sharing, and Learning from Jewish Life During the Pandemic
The Council of American Jewish Museums and George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media Receive Grants for Major Archiving Project Led by Lippman Kanfer Foundation for L
PhD Students Brannan and Hubai Accepted as HASTAC Scholars
Two PhD students in GMU’s Department of History and Art History, Laura Brannan and Janine Hubai, have been accepted as HASTAC Scholars. The HASTAC scholarship program supports graduate students
Murali’s “Visualizing the Interwoven World” Receives Grants from AIIS
Dr. Deepthi Murali has received a Digital India Learning Scholarship grant from the American Institute of Indian Studies in support of a new digital art history project. Visualizing the Interwove
40,000+ Documents from Religious Bodies Census Digitized Nearly a Century Later
Today the American Religious Ecologies project is releasing the initial version of a website that makes available tens of thousands of documents from the 1926 U.S. Census of Religious Bodies. These sc
New Publication Model, Editor for Current Research in Digital History
For the past three years, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has been publishing a peer-reviewed journal, Current Research in Digital History. Over those three years, our mission
Current Research in Digital History 2020
Today RRCHNM is publishing the third issue of our open-access, peer-reviewed publication Current Research in Digital History. This issue features six essays on topics ranging from the Student Nonv
From Historical Sources to Datasets: A Preview of DataScribe
Updated November 11: The beta release is now available for download (zip file). Scholars in history and related humanities fields are increasingly turning towards data analysis and visualization in or
Congratulations to Capital Jewish Museum on Groundbreaking Festival
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, RRCHNM has been collaborating with a series of partners on its Pandemic Religion and American Jewish Life project. We have been very fortunate to have had the