On the 25th anniversary of the home pregnancy test kit, the National Institutes of Health and CHNM launched A Thin Blue Line, a new web exhibit that explores the history of the pregnancy test kit from the NIH laboratory to the digital age, and encourages women to add their own stories to the history of […]
In November 2003, CHNM acquired DoHistory, a website that explores the life of eighteenth-century New England midwife Martha Ballard, whose diary was the basis for Lauren Thatcher Ulrich’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Laurie Kahn-Leavitt’s PBS film, both entitled A Midwife’s Tale. CHNM acquired the website from the Film Study Center at Harvard University, where the website […]
CHNM, in partnership with eight Northern Virginia school districts, received two three-year Teaching American History grants from the Department of Education in October 2003. Creating a More Perfect Community, a joint project with Alexandria City Public Schools, provides U.S. history instructors with professional development focused on content and skills specifically related to teaching history, including […]
In October 2003, CHNM and Georgetown’s Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship hosted “What Can Good Web Design Do for Humanities Projects: Reflections and Case Studies.” The forum provided an opportunity for scholars, designers, and interested students to discuss how technical design as expressed through the web encouraged or discouraged learning. Brad Johnson […]
This fall’s Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities focuses on “What Can Good Web Design Do for Humanities Projects: Reflections and Case Studies.” Our panelists are Brad Johnson, Creative Director, and Julie Beeler, Studio Director, of Second Story (http://www.secondstory.com) and Mike O’Malley and Paula Petrik, Associate Directors, Center for History and New […]
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 who remember the earlier blackouts came to the […]
The second Richard W. Lyman Award was given today to CHNM Director Roy Rosenzweig. Presented by the National Humanities Center, the Lyman Award recognizes the innovative use of information technology in humanistic scholarship and teaching. “The Lyman Award continues to recognize scholarly achievement of unusual merit and impact,” said James J. O’Donnell, Georgetown University provost […]
Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown, these periodic forums will explore important issues in humanities computing and provide an opportunity for DC area scholars interested in the uses of new technology in the humanities […]
Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown, these periodic forums will explore important issues in humanities computing and provide an opportunity for DC area scholars interested the uses of new technology in the humanities to […]