American Religious Ecologies Team Completes Digitization
American Religious Ecologies seeks to understand how congregations from different religious traditions related to one another by creating new datasets, maps, and visualizations for the history of Amer
Graduate Student Reflections: Sustainability Summer
This past summer I had the opportunity to work on RRCHNM’s sustainability team. Our work focused on flattening websites built with content management systems (CMS), such as Drupal, Omeka, and WordPr
Report from the Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History
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 hi
Celebrating Women’s History Month
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 Americ
Teaching, Writing, and Research with AI
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
Celebrating Black History Month
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 superi
Graduate Student Reflections: How Network Analysis Influenced My Research
As a fifth year PhD candidate in the History Department, I have combined my desire to learn everything I can about female preachers in the early American republic with my enthusiasm for any and all da
Tropy 1.13 Release
The Tropy team is pleased to announce the release of Tropy 1.13. In addition to several performance and user interface improvements (see full release notes here), this release introduces the new stand
Introducing DataScribe 101
Fall workshops hosted by the DataScribe project team will further support user exploration of DataScribe 101’s capabilities. Earlier this year, RRCHNM released DataScribe, a structured transcrip
Introducing the Proceedings of THATCamp!
THATCamp, The Humanities and Technology Camp, is an open, inexpensive meeting where humanists and technologists of all skill levels meet to learn and build together in sessions proposed on the spot: i