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Moving Forward
Roy Rosenzweig co-founded the Center for History and New Media in 1994 and directed the Center until he passed away last month. In the early years, the Center was just Roy and a few others, but in the last seven years the number of projects, size of the staff, and overall ambition of the Center [&he
Echo Grants, NYC Digital History Workshop
The Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce two exciting opportunities for historians of science, technology, and industry: Echo Online Collection Grants and a Doing Digital History Workshop in New York. CHNM’s Echo project is pleased to announce the availability of up to five
CHNM Digital Memory Banks in the News
Two of CHNM’s “digital memory bank” projects have drawn major media attention of late, marking important landmarks in both American history and their own development. On August 29, 2007 on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) announc
Upcoming ECHO workshop and ECHO Grants
Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, Technology, and Industry July 12-15, 2007 The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) announces two exciting opportunities for historians of science, technology, and industry. This summer, CHNM’s ECHO project (http://echo.gmu.ed
Now on shelves: Dan Cohen’s Equations from God
Beginning with Plato and ending on the eve of the twentieth century, CHNM Director of Research Projects, Dan Cohen’s latest book, Equations from God (Johns Hopkins University Press), tells the story of how and why so many Europeans and Americans came to see mathematics as a divine language, a
Virginia Tech launches April 16 Archive in collaboration with CHNM
Virginia Tech’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) has just announced the launch of the April 16 Archive. Employing technologies originally developed in conjunction with CHNM’s stable of “Digital Memory Bank” projects including Echo, the September 11 Digital Arch
Rosenzweig Receives OAH Distinguished Service Award
On Saturday, March 31, during the 100th Annual Meeting of the the Organization of American Historians (OAH) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, CHNM Director Roy Rosenzweig was presented with the OAH Distinguished Service Award for an individual or individuals whose contributions have significantly enriched
CHNM launches First Podcast – Mozilla Digital Memory Bank
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University is pleased to announce the launch of its first podcast. The Mozilla Digital Memory Bank Podcast will feature highlights from oral histories taken from current and former Mozilla employees. The biweekly show will cover a wide range of to
World History Matters awarded the 2007 James Harvey Robinson Prize
On January 5, 2007 at the American Historical Association’s Annual General Meeting, representatives from CHNM, including Roy Rosenzweig, Kelly Schrum, Kristin Lehner, and Sharon Leon accepted the James Harvey Robinson Prize for World History Matters (Co-Director, Mills Kelly was unable to atte
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank Collects 5,000 Objects
Since its launch in November 2005, the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank has collected over 5000 digital objects from institutional partners, such as the Louisiana State Museum and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, and from hundreds of individual contributors. The