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History Matters Recognized by New York Public Library
The New York Public Library selected History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web to be included in its Best of Reference 2005. The Best of Reference, created each year by a committee of librarians from The New York Library, is a list of 25 reference books and websites acknowledging useful res
Kelly Receives Virginia’s Outstanding Faculty Award
T. Mills Kelly, assistant professor of history and art history and associate director of the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), will receive a 2005 Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award (OFA), the commonwealth’s highest honor for faculty at Virginia’s colleges and universities. Kelly
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
CHNM Director recognized for “excellence in the humanities”
In a ceremony held December 9, 2004 at Old Town Hall in Fairfax, Virginia, CHNM Director, Roy Rosenzweig was presented with the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ Award for Excellence in the Humanities. The award recognizes citizens whose work – both professional and volunteer ̵
Roy Rosenzweig discusses digital preservation in Investors Business Daily
“RESEARCHERS LOOK TO SAVE DISAPPEARING LANGUAGES ONLINE” BY SHEILA RILEY FOR INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY NOVEMBER 9, 2004 Academics are creating repositories of information in cyberspace – and making the ivory tower more democratic in the process. Preserving endangered language
Digital Tools for the Humanities: What’s Being Developed? What is Needed?
This fall’s Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities focuses on “Digital Tools for the Humanities: What’s Being Developed? What is Needed?” Our panelists are David Greenbaum and Raymond Yee from the University of California Berkeley’s Interactive Univer
Digital preservation grant includes CHNM
In partnership with colleagues at the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive, CHNM has received an award from the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program to build upon work done in connection with its Business Plan Archive, a two-year
Now on shelves: History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History
History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online Alan Gevinson, Kelly Schrum, Roy Rosenzweig Based on the award-winning website History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, which is a joint project of CHNM and the American Social History Project at the CUNY Graduate Center, this unique
September 11 Digital Archive posts visitor response cards from Smithsonian exhibition
From September 11, 2002 to July 6, 2003, more than 1 million people from around the world visited “September 11: Bearing Witness to History,” an exhibit at the National Museum of American History. In addition to displays of photographs, television footage, artifacts from ground zero, and
New York City blackout renews attention to CHNM project
Following the massive power outages that hit the northeastern United States in August 2003, The Blackout Project – a CHNM website that covers the history of New York City’s great blackouts of 1965 and 1977 – received sudden, unprecedented attention. The news media as well and those