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Donor Wall Display
Donors now have their name in lights in the new display at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.
Remembering the Hurricanes of 2005
As weather forecasters show Tropical Storm Issac heading directly towards the Louisiana coast on August 29, we are all reminded of another storm that came ashore on the Gulf Coast on the same day in 2005. Hurricane Katrina was a Category 5 storm that wiped out towns in Louisiana and Mississippi; cau
Summer Intern — Web Developer
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University is seeking a creative, energetic, and well-organized student for a 2012 summer internship (8 to 12 weeks) at a leading digital humanities center. Strong grades and ability to work in a team are essential. Preferenc
Matthew Battles set to Visit the Center
Matthew Battles, author of the book Library: An Unquiet History, and Producer + Editor for Digital Humanities Projects for metaLAB at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will be coming to visit on 4/18 at 3pm in the Science Showcase (Research Hall 101 in the tower). Matthew wi
RRCHNM Shapes WebWise 2012
WebWise 2012 was not your average professional conference with a StarTrek actor and a punk rocker in the lineup as keynote speakers. The attendees of WebWise 2012, a conference sponsored by the Institute for Museum and Library Services for their grantees and other library, archives, and museum profe
Announcing OccupyArchive.org
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University is pleased to announce the launch of #OccupyArchive occupyarchive.org, an effort to collect, preserve, and share the stories and born-digital materials of Occupy Wall Street and the associated Occupy movements arou
New Civil War Poster from Teachinghistory.org
What can a quilt, a map, photographs, a haversack, and a receipt tell you about the past? Thanks to Teachinghistory.org’s new FREE poster, “How Do You Piece Together the History of the Civil War?,” these objects can teach a lot about the Civil War and about how historians piece together the pa
Introducing PressForward
For some time here at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media we have been thinking about the state of scholarly publishing, and its increasing disconnect with how we have come to communicate online. Among our concerns: • A variety of scholarly work is flourishing online, ranging from
Scripto Alpha Launches with the Papers of the War Department
We are pleased to announce the alpha implementation of Scripto, CHNM’s open source tool for crowdsourcing documentary transcription, with the Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 project. Beginning today, interested volunteers can register to begin transcribing any of the materials in thi
For Virginians: Government Matters
Fairfax County Public Schools teachers explored the activities and case studies found within For Virginians: Government Matters on March 1 at an inservice about state and local government. The day included presentations by Chairman Sharon Bulova, Delegate Scott Surovell, and former Senator Emilie Mi