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Completed World History Sources Project
This summer CHNM completed the NEH-funded World History Sources, a website focused on the learning and teaching of world history with primary sources. The site features: Finding World History, a guide to the 200 best online primary source archives in world history; Unpacking Evidence, eight guides t
Alexandria schools recognize CHNM and GMU
The Center for History and New Media and the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University have received an award from Alexandria City Public Schools for “commitment and dedication to the students of Alexandria City Public Schools” for their work with ACPS teachers thr
Completion of Lost Museum Announced
Together with longtime collaborators at the CUNY Graduate Center’s American Social History Project, CHNM is happy to announce the completion of The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum American Life and Culture. This innovative, interactive website re-creates P. T. Barnum�s American Museum,
History Matters wins Robinson Prize
The American Historical Association has awarded the James Harvey Robinson Prize for “outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history” to History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web. History Matters was created by CHNM in collaboration with the American Social Hist
Echo expands to include Collecting and Tools Centers
CHNM announces the launch of the new Echo Collecting Center and Tools Center, which join the Research Center and Resource Center to make Echo the most comprehensive website for collecting and presenting the history of science, technology, and industry online. The Collecting Center provides annotatio
Roy Rosenzweig discusses digital preservation in Investors Business Daily
“RESEARCHERS LOOK TO SAVE DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES ONLINE” BY SHEILA RILEY FOR INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY NOVEMBER 9, 2004 Academics are creating repositories of information in cyberspace – and making the ivory tower more democratic in the process. Preserving endangered language
New Echo website launched
Echo: Exploring and Collecting History Online – Science, Technology, and Industry (http://echo.gmu.edu/) announces the launch of its redesigned, expanded, and improved website. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Echo provides the most comprehensive portal for the history of science on t
September 11 Digital Archive posts visitor response cards from Smithsonian exhibition
From September 11, 2002 to July 6, 2003, more than 1 million people from around the world visited “September 11: Bearing Witness to History,” an exhibit at the National Museum of American History. In addition to displays of photographs, television footage, artifacts from ground zero, and
NASA, ECHO launch Web exhibit on Columbia space shuttle
One year after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the NASA History Office has partnered with ECHO’s Shuttle Archive to collect personal reflections on space exploration as part of an online exhibit about Columbia’s mission and crew. The exhibit includes NASA photos, documents, and repo
Second DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities
Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown, these periodic forums will explore important issues in humanities computing and provide an opportunity for DC area scholars int