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Apply Now for the Gerda Henkel Fellowship in Digital History
With the generous support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at the George Mason University (RRCHNM), and the German Historical Institute (GHI) invite applications from postdoctoral scholars and advanced doctoral students based in Europe for a 12-mo
Connect with RRCHNM at AHA24
There are a lot of great sessions coming up at this week’s American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting, many of which feature RRCHNM-ers. To make finding those sessions easy for you so you can easily connect with us and learn more about our current projects, we thought we’d li
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
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
RRCHNM Launches Next Round of Teaching Guides for Pre-Service History Teachers
Funded by the Library of Congress, the four teaching guides support new prospective teachers teaching Indigenous history and will be available on Teachinghistory.org. RRCHNM is proud to announce the launch of four new resources for pre-service teachers on Indigenous history in the United States. The
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
Exploring True Crime in Early Modern Europe in the Classroom
This semester I’m using my expertise on crime and violence in a new way: I’m teaching an upper-level undergraduate course “True Crime in Early Modern Europe.” When we think of the true crime genre, we tend to think of documentaries, Netflix shows, Pulp Fiction, and podcasts, to name just a f
Revolutionary Beginnings
We all know how the American Revolution ends, but do we really understand its beginnings? In the mid-1750s, far from Philadelphia, New York, Boston, or Charleston, and farther still from London, Paris, or Madrid, the choices made by British settlers, French colonists, and Indigenous peoples in a pla
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