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RRCHNM Past, Present, and Future
The first time that I came across the name Roy Rosenzweig was in the textbook for a class titled simply, “Historiography.” The book discussed Rosenzweig’s 1983 book, Eight Hours for What We Will, as a key work in American labor history. Since Eight Hours is a history of workers in Worcester, M
Announcing Death by Numbers Beta
RRCHNM is excited to announce the formal beta launch of the Death by Numbers database. There’s over a year left to go in the project and we’re still hard at work adding data to the database and building our first visualizations, so don’t be surprised at how large some of the gaps are in the [&
Schedule for the RRCHNM data working group, spring 2023
The RRCHNM data working group meets every other week each semester. The working group exists to aid and abet one another as we seek to create data-driven histories. In our sessions, we share work-in-progress, discuss readings, and teach one another the techniques of the trade. Each semester we creat
Helping Students Make History: Community Engaged Learning
Essays Helping Students Make History: Community Engaged Learning by Mills Kelly May 25, 2017 This article was originally published in Public History Weekly and is reprinted here with permission. Historical Study and Self-discovery In the United States, those of us who teach history are often guilty
RRCHNM Receives Grant in Collaboration with Fairfax City’s Office of Historic Resources at Historic Blenheim and Brandy Station Foundation for Digitization of Civil War Graffiti
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), in collaboration with Historic Blenheim and the Civil War Interpretive Center (Fairfax City, VA) and the Brandy Station Foundation (Brandy Station, VA), has been awarded a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Di
Basics of Tropy
Each semester, RRCHNM hosts a series of “Basics Of” sessions that teach the basics of an application, process, or methodology so our graduate students, affiliates, and faculty can get together and learn about that topic. These sessions are hosted by RRCHNM members who are resident expert
Connect with RRCHNM at AHA23
There are a lot of great sessions coming up at this week’s American Historical Association’s Annual Meeting, many of which feature RRCHNM-ers. To make finding those sessions easy for you so you can easily connect with us and learn more about our current projects, we thought we’d li
Evaluating Websites for History Teachers: Using History Matters in a Graduate Seminar
Essays Evaluating Websites for History Teachers: Using History Matters in a Graduate Seminar by Tracey Weiss May 2001 Teaching Digital History This article was originally published in The History Teacher 34, 3 (May 2001): 345-352 and is reprinted here with permission. This past fall I taught a gradu
For Better or Worse? The Marriage of the Web and Classroom
Essays For Better or Worse? The Marriage of the Web and Classroom by T. Mills Kelly August 2000 Teaching Digital History This article was originally published in Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 23 No. 2, Summer 2005 206-220, reprinted here with permission. Introduction When we think about the f
‘Dynamic Syllabi for Dummies’: Posting Class Assignments on the World Wide Web
Essays ‘Dynamic Syllabi for Dummies’: Posting Class Assignments on the World Wide Web by Gary J. Kornblith March 1998 Teaching Digital History This article was originally published in Journal of American History 84, 4 (March 1998): 1447-53 and is reprinted here with permission. As my friends at