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Cohen on Illinois Public Radio
On Friday, February 3, CHNM’s Director of Research Projects, Dan Cohen appeared on Illinois Public Radio’s Focus 580 to discuss his recent book, Digital History and oth
Women in World History Announces Online Forum
CHNM is happy to announce that our Women in World History project will host the third in its series of four month-long online forums in February 2006, Women in Latin America. These
CHNM on CNN
On Friday, January 13, CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer” featured CHNM’s Hurricane Digital Memory Bank. Internet reporter, Jacki Schechner, enthu
CHNM Launches Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
In an effort to collect, preserve, and present the stories and digital record of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, The Center for History and New Media has launched the Hurrican
CHNM “Tech Tuesday”
On Tuesday, January 10, Roy Rosenzweig and Dan Cohen will discuss their new book, Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web on NPR and W
CHNM named among “The Best of the Humanities on the Web” by NEH
The Center for History and New Media has been nominated for inclusion in the National Endowment for the Humanities’ EDSITEment: The Best of the Humanities on the Web project
Firefox Scholar in Chronicle of Higher Education
Featured in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education is CHNM’s latest software development project, “Firefox Scholar.” Due for beta release in Summer 2006,
Cohen and Rosenzweig on Truth, Lies, and the Web
Historians have generally taken a dim view of the state of knowledge on the Web, pointing to the many inaccuracies on Web pages written by amateurs. In a new article in First Monda