Rosenzweig on Digital Archives in Chronicle of Higher Education

CHNM Director, Roy Rosenzweig appears in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education with a column entitled Digital Archives Are a Gift of Wisdom to Be Used Wisely. In the article, Rosenzweig argues that it is not enough to digitize sources and build archives. Rather, the librarians, archivists, and scholars who create digital resources must also take measures to insure they remain accessible to all and to help students make sense of what they find there. As examples of this approach, Rosenzweig points to several CHNM projects, including History Matters, World History Matters, and CHNM’s forthcoming project, Historical Thinking Matters, which will scaffold primary sources in a way that encourages students to check sources, corroborate evidence, and contextualize it.