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Kelly Receives Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award
T. Mills Kelly, assistant professor of history and art history and associate director of the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), will receive a 2005 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award (OFA), the commonwealth’s highest honor for faculty at Virginia’s colleges and universities. Kelly
Echo exhibit reviewed in The Public Historian
A Thin Blue Line, CHNM’s online exhibition documenting the history of the pregnancy test kit is the subject of a website review published in the most recent issue of The Public Historian, the journal of the National Council on Public History. A Thin Blue Line is a collaboration between CHNM
HNN in NYT
New York Times columnist John Tierney discusses Rick Shenkman’s predictions about the presidential inaugural address. Shenkman is editor of CHNM’s History News Network. Click here to read the article.
CHNM celebrates 10th anniversary
From its humble origins in the mind “and on the personal computer” of a single historian at George Mason University to its current place as one of the most respected and visited Internet sources for history with nearly ten million visitors a year, the Center for History and New Media (CH
CHNM Director recognized for “excellence in the humanities”
In a ceremony held December 9, 2004 at Old Town Hall in Fairfax, Virginia, CHNM Director, Roy Rosenzweig was presented with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ Award for Excellence in the Humanities. The award recognizes citizens whose work – both professional and volunteer ̵
Digital preservation grant includes CHNM
In partnership with colleagues at the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive, CHNM has received an award from the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program to build upon work done in connection with its Business Plan Archive, a two-year
New Echo website launched
Echo: Exploring and Collecting History Online – Science, Technology, and Industry (http://echo.gmu.edu/) announces the launch of its redesigned, expanded, and improved website. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Echo provides the most comprehensive portal for the history of science on t
September 11 Digital Archive posts visitor response cards from Smithsonian exhibition
From September 11, 2002 to July 6, 2003, more than 1 million people from around the world visited “September 11: Bearing Witness to History,” an exhibit at the National Museum of American History. In addition to displays of photographs, television footage, artifacts from ground zero, and
NIH, CHNM launch Web exhibit exploring history of home pregnancy tests
On the 25th anniversary of the home pregnancy test kit, the National Institutes of Health and CHNM launched A Thin Blue Line, a new web exhibit that explores the history of the pregnancy test kit from the NIH laboratory to the digital age, and encourages women to add their own stories to the history
NASA, ECHO launch Web exhibit on Columbia space shuttle
One year after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the NASA History Office has partnered with ECHO’s Shuttle Archive to collect personal reflections on space exploration as part of an online exhibit about Columbia’s mission and crew. The exhibit includes NASA photos, documents, and repo