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Death By Numbers
Death By Numbers One of the most dreaded diseases in early modern England was plague. The city of London alone lost an estimated 225,000 people to plague in the century between 1563 and 1665. As an extension of government attempts to track plague deaths during outbreaks, London officials started pub
Jessica Otis Receives Major NSF Grant
RRCHNM Professor and Director of Public Projects Jessica Otis has been awarded $443,425 from the NSF to support her digital work on the history of the plague in early…
From Historical Sources to Datasets: A Preview of DataScribe
Updated November 11: The beta release is now available for download (zip file). Scholars in history and related humanities fields are increasingly turning towards data analysis and visualization in order to understand the past. Historians have of course long used sources with quantitative informatio
04/17/2019: RRCHNM @ Shakespeare Association of America Meeting
Jessica Otis will be presenting “Death by Numbers: Quantitatively Analyzing the London Bills of Mortality” at the Shakespeare Association of America Meeting in Washington, DC, on April 19, 2019
08/15/2018: RRCHNM @ Society of American Archivists Conference
Megan Brett, Stephen Robertson and LaQuanda Walters Cooper will be presenting a lighting talk on Creating Local Linkages at the Public Library Archives and Special Collections Section meeting during the Society of American Archivists Conference on August 15, 2018, at 4.00 PM. Creating Local Linkage
Veterans Legacy Program contract awarded to RRCHNM
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is proud to announce that we received a contract from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) National Cemetery Administration (NCA) in support of their Veterans Legacy Program. Students working within RRCHNM’s Education Division will be res
IMLS funds Opening Omeka for Close and Distant Reading
RRCHNM is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to fund Opening Omeka for Close and Distant Reading [LG-05-14-00125-14]. Over the course of the two decades since the invention of the web browser, the w
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Receives MERLOT Award for Online Learning Excellence
At the 2009 Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT) International Conference, the CHNM website Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution was presented with the MERLOT Classics Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resource. The MERLOT Awards pro
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity Receives MERLOT Award for Online Learning Excellence
At the 2009 MERLOT International Conference this coming August, MERLOT will present Jack Censer, Dean of the George Mason University College of Humanities and Social Sciences, with the MERLOT Classics Award for Exemplary Online Learning Resource for the CHNM website, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: E
NEH awards funding for “Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives”
The Center for History and New Media and the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University are excited to announce that we have received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create a premier bi-lingual Russian-English interactive web-based exhibit entitled,