Discovering the Links: Helping Students Piece Together a Story from Alexandria National Cemetery
Just after midnight on April 24, 1865, the Massachusetts, a side-wheel steamer carrying some 300 soldiers, collided with the Black Diamond, a small propeller boat anchored in the lower Potomac River.
Learn Local, Think National: Connecting Alexandria National Cemetery to American History
“They didn’t even spell out her name!” This outraged exclamation from an 11th grader at T.C. Williams High School made me absurdly happy. Why? Because against all odds I had somehow manage
RRCHNM welcomes Jessica Otis
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media are very happy to welcome Jessica Otis (@jotis13) to our ranks as a director, and as an assistant professor in the Department of History and Art His
Current Research in Digital History
The inaugural issue of RRCHNM’s new annual open-access, peer-reviewed publication Current Research in Digital History is now live. The issue was edited by Lincoln Mullen and Stephen Robertson,
World History Commons receives NEH Award
We are delighted to announce an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to create World History Commons in partnership with the World History Association and Associate Professor Ada
08/09/2018: RRCHNM @ DH@Wake
Megan Brett is leading a workshop “Multimedia Exhibit Building with Omeka” at the DH@Wake Summer Institute at Wake Forest University on August 9, 2018.
10/07/2018: RRCHNM @ Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute
Stephen Robertson will be part of a team working on Promoting a Public Face for Scholarly Journals at the Triangle Scholarly Communications Institute from October 7-11, 2018. Together with Lisa Brady,
08/15/2018: RRCHNM @ Society of American Archivists Conference
Megan Brett, Stephen Robertson and LaQuanda Walters Cooper will be presenting a lighting talk on Creating Local Linkages at the Public Library Archives and Special Collections Section meeting during
06/22/2018: Omeka S Workshop @ RRCHNM
We are happy to announce a day of workshops and activities for developers and users of Omeka S on June 22, 2018. The event will include an overview of the design of Omeka S, as well as introductions t
ReSounding the Archives Symposium
On Tuesday, April 24, the first ReSounding the Archives Symposium was held in the Garden Room of the Colonnade Club at the University of Virginia. This event culminated the first year of work on the R