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10/19-10/21/2016: RRCHNM @ Art History in a Digital Dimension
Sheila Brennan will be attending Art History in a Digital Dimension at the University of Maryland, College Park.
10 Years After Katrina, the Enduring Value of the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
Ten years ago, we knew as historians that we couldn’t assess fully the social, cultural, economic, and political implications of the devastating hurricanes in the summer of 2005. We did know that previous natural disasters had profound consequences. The 1927 Mississippi River Flood, for example, f
100 Leaders Opens for Voting!
National History Day (NHD) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) announce the launch of the voting platform for 100 Leaders in World History (100leaders.org), a project sponsored by Kenneth E. Behring. The site includes profiles of 100 leaders in world history selected by
CHNM Releases Omeka 0.10b
The Center for History and New Media, in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society, is pleased to announce a major new release of its Omeka web publishing platform, version 0.10b. From the Swahili word meaning “to display” or “to lay out for discussion,” Omeka is a ne
CHNM celebrates 10th anniversary
From its humble origins in the mind “and on the personal computer” of a single historian at George Mason University to its current place as one of the most respected and visited Internet sources for history with nearly ten million visitors a year, the Center for History and New Media (CH
AHA Survey Finds RRCHNM’s Teachinghistory.org and History Matters to be Top Resources for K-12 Teachers
A recent survey of K-12 social studies teachers by the American Historical Association finds that Teachinghistory.org remains a frequently used resource with 56 percent reporting that they used the site. Funded by the Department of Education from 2008 to 2012 and directed by former Director of Educa
Graduate Student Reflections: Brandan P. Buck
My name is Brandan P. Buck, and I am currently in my fifth year as a Ph.D. candidate in history at George Mason University and graduate research assistant at Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), where I have spent four of the last five years of my Ph.D. program with Mason. In [&
Religious Ecologies Hits Digitization Milestone
The 1926 Census of Religious Bodies collected more than 232,000 schedules from religious organizations across the United States. The Religious Ecologies team frequently receives requests about which denominations have been uploaded to our website, specifically which denominations have all of their s
The End of Our Hike
Every hike has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Some are short, some are long. In the case of the Appalachian Trail, one of those hikes can last less than an hour, or it can stretch almost 2,200 miles. On October 5, 2021, the team at RRCHNM’s R2 Studios began our journey through the [&hellip
World History Commons Adds Several New Primary Sources
World History Commons recently prioritized adding primary sources from lesser-covered regions and time periods to give a more thorough overview of world history for educators to pull from. As the Project Associate heading this endeavor, I focused my efforts on ancient and post-classical Oceania, Nor