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Talking to the Dead: Spiritualists and Seances
During my time working on the American Religious Ecologies project I became focused on female ministers and other types of religious leadership that appear in the Census. This interest aligns well with my dissertation research, which focuses on female preachers in the nineteenth century and their bo
Jessica Otis Receives NEH Funding To Develop and Host Summer Institute On DH Methods
Jessica Otis of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) in collaboration with Ashley Sanders of UCLA, have been awarded funding as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program. This grant will facilitate an
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
Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant Joins the R2 Studios Network
This post is cross-posted on r2studios.org with further details about the announcement. RRCHNM’s R2 Studios and historian Kathryn Gehred are excited to announce a new partnership that will bring the highly-rated podcast series Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant to the R2 Studios network.&
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
Remembering Paula Petrik
Today we share the sad news that Professor Paula Petrik, our former colleague here at RRCHNM, has passed away at the age of 74 at her home in Montana. Paula was an early pioneer in digital history and was the author or co-author of several books and/or CD-ROMs in Western history, women’s history,
Evaluating Websites for History Teachers: Using History Matters in a Graduate Seminar
Essays Evaluating Websites for History Teachers: Using History Matters in a Graduate Seminar by Tracey Weiss May 2001 Teaching Digital History This article was originally published in The History Teacher 34, 3 (May 2001): 345-352 and is reprinted here with permission. This past fall I taught a gradu