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Happy Anniversary, PressForward!
Happy Anniversary, PressForward! Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan foundation and based at George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, the PressForward project was born two years ago with a mission to showcase the varied, dynamic, and provocative digital humanities schol
THATCamp Leadership & participad | DH Fellow’s Blog
Ben Hurwitz (2nd year Digital History Fellow) On Thursday October 10, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and George Mason University welcomed DH’ers from around the globe to THATCamp Leadership 2013. For those of you who don’t know, THATCamp (The Humanities and Technolo
PressForward Editors-at-Large | DH Fellow’s Blog
Amanda Morton (2nd year Digital History Fellow) This semester the second year Digital History Fellows are sticking with one of the three divisions at RRCHNM (Research, Education, Public Projects) and participating in selected projects within those divisions. Some of us are coming in at the start of
How can technology help teachers to teach historical and critical thinking? | DH Fellow’s Blogpost
Amanda Regan (1st Year Digital history Fellow) How can technology help teachers to teach historical and critical thinking? Getting students to think critically about historical events rather than just memorizing the facts is challenging, but digital technology can help. With so many new digita
How It’s Made: Public History Projects | DH Fellow’s Blogpost
Spencer Roberts (2nd Year Digital history Fellow) In a recent conversation, a friend inquired about the projects on which I am working here at the RRCHNM. I explained that I am currently assigned to a project about the War of 1812 on behalf of the National Park Service, and described the basic eleme
Readings Course in Digital History | DH Fellow’s blogpost
Ben Hurwitz (2nd year Digital History Fellow) Since its inception, the George Mason history PhD program has emphasized exposure to the Digital Humanities (DH). The program requires completion of two courses that introduce students to digital tools and developments in the DH community. In addition to
The Impact of Education Projects | DH Fellow’s blogpost
As fellows in the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, my cohort and I will spend the better part of this year working within the three divisions, engaged in hands-on work with the tools and projects CHNM produces. We’ve begun our foray in the educational projects division of CHNM and
Remembering with the September 11 Digital Archive
During this day of remembrance, we urge you to browse through some of the materials collected by the September 11th Digital Archive, a collaborative effort between RRCNHM and the American Social History Project at the City University of New York to preserve and present the history of September 11, 2
Digital History Fellows At RRCHNM
The first Monday all-staff meeting of the year at RRCHNM was devoted to an orientation for the fourteen Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs) who will be working at the Center in 2013-14. GRAs are a key part of the Center’s staff, working in a range of capacities on projects in all three divisions
One Week | One Tool Team Launches Serendip-o-matic
After five days and nights of intense collaboration, the One Week | One Tool digital humanities team has unveiled its web application: Serendip-o-matic . Unlike conventional search tools, this “serendipity engine” takes in any text, such as an article, song lyrics, or a bibliography. It then ext