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The John Carter Brown Library Supports the Production of Worlds Turned Upside Down
RRCHNM’s R2 Studios is thrilled to announce that The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) has generously invested $10,000 in support of our latest podcast, Worlds Turned Upside Down. Worlds Turned Upside Down tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war th
Nate Sleeter and Kelly Schrum Receive NEH Funding To Host Summer Faculty Institute
Dr. Nate Sleeter, of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), and Dr. Kelly Schrum, of the Higher Education Program (HEP), at George Mason University have been awarded funding as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Institutes for Higher Education Faculty program
Amanda Madden Receives NEH Funding to Create a Digital Edition of Goro Dati’s Sfera
Amanda Madden of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), in collaboration with Carrie Beneš of New College of Florida, Laura Ingallinella of the University of Toronto, and independent scholar Laura Morreale, have been awarded a major grant as part of the National Endowment for
RRCHNM Past, Present, and Future
The first time that I came across the name Roy Rosenzweig was in the textbook for a class titled simply, “Historiography.” The book discussed Rosenzweig’s 1983 book, Eight Hours for What We Will, as a key work in American labor history. Since Eight Hours is a history of workers in Worcester, M
Passing the Baton
At the 2001 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Roy Rosenzweig dumped a cup of coffee on me. He didn’t mean to, of course, but he did. It happened in the days when search committees often interviewed job candidates in hotel rooms and I was there to interview for a job at George
Collaboration With NMAAHC and HBCU Partners Moves Into Beta Testing Mode
A team from RRCHNM spent three days in Atlanta in June conducting an Omeka S training workshop for the five HBCU partner institutions in the HBCU History Culture and Access Consortium sponsored by the Office of Strategic Partnerships at the National Museum for African American History and Culture. O
Welcome, Kristen Jacobsen!
RRCHNM welcomes our newest team member–Kristin Jacobsen! Kristin comes to us with experience in military history, public history, and digital projects–she has an MA in Applied History from George Mason University and a MMAS in Military History from the US Army Command and General Staff College.
Bon Voyage
This week we bid bon voyage to two of our graduate research assistants, Laura Brannan Fretwell and Caroline Greer. But it’s a happy bon voyage because Laura and Caroline are leaving RRCHNM to go spend three months at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH). During their r
Helping Students Make History: Community Engaged Learning
Essays Helping Students Make History: Community Engaged Learning by Mills Kelly May 25, 2017 This article was originally published in Public History Weekly and is reprinted here with permission. Historical Study and Self-discovery In the United States, those of us who teach history are often guilty
RRCHNM at the AHA
The first week of January 2023 was quite a week for the team at RRCHNM. Close to twenty of us were at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Philadelphia, presenting papers, taking part in round tables, and showing off work at poster sessions. Our fantastic graduate students ma