We use digital media to democratize history.
At the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media we use digital media and computer technology to democratize history: to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.
Since 1994—under the founding direction of Roy Rosenzweig—the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media has worked to create digital history and software that is free and fully available to all.
They are shaped by collaborations with practitioners and audiences, and are produced by teams of researchers, developers, designers, and graduate and undergraduate students.
In 2020, our various projects attracted an audience of more than 2 million unique visitors. To do this work, and to keep our projects free and open access and (mostly) open source, we depend on grant funds from government agencies, private foundations, and individuals who believe in our mission. We also do contract work for like-minded organizations across the humanities, in education, and in public history.
Our projects attracted an audience of more than 2.1 million unique visitors.
An endowment provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities and over 300 donors, and support from College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, sustain the infrastructure of the Center, but we need the continued support of people like you to help us continue to do the work that we do.
We encourage you to explore our projects, get to know our staff, follow our activities, and consider how you might work with us, collaborate with us, or build something interesting with us.