Our New Digital History Fellows & Their Work on RRCHNM’s History
This semester RRCHNM welcomes two new DH Fellows, Laura Crossley and Jessica Dauterive. This year the Fellows practicum at the Center began with a seminar with Stephen Robertson, the director. The go
Omeka S 1.0 Beta Release
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University is pleased to announce the public beta release of Omeka S (1.0), the next-generation, open source web-publishing platform
Meet the Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellow for Digital History
In early September, the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media welcomed Gabor M. Toth, Assistant Professor at the University of Passau, as
Teachers Selected for Understanding Sacrifice: WWII in the Pacific
RRCHNM, in partnership with National History Day, the American Battle Monuments Commission, and the National Cemetery Administration, is pleased to announce the selection of 18 teachers to study World
Collections Continue to Grow in September 11th Digital Archive
The fifteenth anniversary of the attacks on September 11, 2001 is upon us. We see that the legacy of those events continues to live on in current political debates, foreign and domestic policy-making,
A New Website for RRCHNM
Today we’re officially launching a redesigned website for RRCHNM. We’re also taking the opportunity to move it to an updated url: igorj2.sg-host.com. The site’s last major redesign w
Mapping Early American Elections Begins with NEH Funding
The National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, announced in March 2016, that it had awarded a three-year grant of $200,000 to support a new project to be housed at th
Understanding Sacrifice Wins National Award
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM), National History Day (NHD), and the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) are pleased to announce that the web project, Understanding
Doing Digital History 2016 is a Wrap
In July, RRCHNM welcomed 24 American historians to Mason’s Arlington campus for two intensive weeks of the National Endowment for the Humanities-sponsored summer institute, Doing Digital History 201
In Memory of Lt. Col. Ronald J. Martin, USMC, Retired
On July 14, 2016, the Rosenzweig Center lost Ronald J. Martin, a longtime and valuable member of our team, to his struggle with cancer. Ron came to the Center in 2008 to serve join the team of scholar