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History and Culture Access Consortium
History and Culture Access Consortium The HBCU History and Culture Access Consortium (HCAC) is an initiative to digitize, preserve, and make visible the rich historical collections at HBCU archives and museums. This project was launched by The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History
World History Commons Adds Several New Primary Sources
World History Commons recently prioritized adding primary sources from lesser-covered regions and time periods to give a more thorough overview of world history for educators to pull from. As the Project Associate heading this endeavor, I focused my efforts on ancient and post-classical Oceania, Nor
Remembering: Angel David Nieves
Written by: Steve Brier It is with great sadness that the members of the Advisory Board and the staff of the RRCHNM note the sudden passing on December 5th of our colleague and RRCHNM board member, Ángel David Nieves. A distinguished and pioneering scholar in the digital humanities and the developm
A Veteran’s Day Salute to our Valued Partnership with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
This Veteran’s Day, we at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) would like to highlight the incredible work of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). The mission of the DPAA is to provide the fullest possible accounting for American personnel lost in foreign conflicts
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
Nate Sleeter Becomes RRCHNM’s Director of Educational Projects
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce that Dr. Nate Sleeter has become our new Director of Educational Projects. The K–12 and college educational resources that RRCHNM makes freely available to teachers, students, and parents regularly receive millions of visit
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
RRCHNM To Host DH2024 Conference
We are thrilled that in just about a year from now, RRCHNM and the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) will be bringing DH2024 to Washington, D.C.! The annual ADHO Digital Humanities Conference is the central and largest event of the international DH community and unites scholars fro
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