RRCHNM Launches New Teaching Guides for Pre-Service History Teachers
Funded by the Library of Congress, these four teaching guides will support new prospective teachers teaching post-1970s U.S. history and civics and will be available on Teachinghistory.org. RRCHNM is
Coming This Winter: Finding Jane Austen Podcast
250 years after her birth, Jane Austen remains a giant in the cultural zeitgeist. Her works have been adapted hundreds of times over multiple mediums, and she remains one of the most popular writers i
RRCHNM Hosts DH 2024: Reinvention and Responsibility
For over 35 years, the annual Digital Humanities Conference, organized by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), has been a premier gathering for scholars, researchers, practitioners
Amanda Madden Receives Second Round of NEH Funding to Create a Digital Edition of Goro Dati’s Sfera
Amanda Madden of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), in collaboration with Carrie Beneš of New College of Florida, Laura Ingallinella of the University of Toronto, and indep
Deepthi Murali and Jason Heppler Receive NEH Funding for Connecting Threads Project
Deepthi Murali and Jason Heppler of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level
Introducing Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History Podcast
Introducing Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History podcast from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and R2 Studios The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) at George Mason
Graduate Student Reflections: Teaching DH
This 2024 spring semester at George Mason University, I was an instructor of record of HIST 390 “The Digital Past” course. This course satisfies the university’s Information Technology and Compu
Religious Digitization: A Step Beyond a Database
Every ten years from 1906 to 1946, the United States Census Bureau surveyed religious congregations, synagogues, and other religious groups in a census similar to the population census. At the time, c
RRCHNM Delivers Arnhem Postal History Prototype Database
Many of us started “pandemic projects” large and small over the past several years. Tim Gale’s project, a prototype website and database of his extensive collection of postal artifacts, is one o
AHA Survey Finds RRCHNM’s Teachinghistory.org and History Matters to be Top Resources for K-12 Teachers
A recent survey of K-12 social studies teachers by the American Historical Association finds that Teachinghistory.org remains a frequently used resource with 56 percent reporting that they used the si