September 9, 2026
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Alexandra Miller
An Ocean of HTML
Graduate Research Assistant Alexandra Miller reflects on building a Twine game to teach students about the cosmopolitan world of ports and ships in the age of sail.
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July 27, 2026
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Shae Corey
How To Make an Academic Zine for a Public Audience
Zines offer academics a creative and accessible way to share research with broader audiences. This guide introduces the basics of creating an academic zine, from planning your content to designing an engaging final product.
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June 14, 2026
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Deepthi Murali
South Asia Collections at The Met: A Preliminary Computational Look
A preliminary computational analysis of 5,000+ MET objects reveals how South Asian art entered the collection — who donated it, when, and what happens to it now.
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May 18, 2026
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Sam Lebovic
Debs Invites Arrest
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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December 8, 2025
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Paige Magoto
Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History Winner
Congratulations to Envisioning Seneca Village!
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December 4, 2025
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Alexandra Miller
Lost in the Park: Roy Rosenzweig’s Public History Legacy
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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August 29, 2025
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Rachel Whyte
American Religious Ecologies Team Completes Digitization
After years of photographing, editing, and cataloging, the American Religious Ecologies team has uploaded every surviving schedule from the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies.
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Savannah Scott
Graduate Student Reflections: Sustainability Summer
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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July 25, 2025
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Nate Sleeter
RRCHNM Receives Funding to Create Teaching Guides on the American Revolution
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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May 13, 2025
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Lauren Rever
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 …
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Lincoln Mullen
Carrying On When the Grants Go Away
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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March 6, 2025
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RRCHNM
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 America? …
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