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NEH awards a Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to CHNM for Crowdsourcing Transcription Tool
CHNM is pleased to announce an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities to support the design and development of a tool for crowdsourcing documentary transcription. The $49,215 award will enable CHNM’s dev team to to build an open source tool to enable
Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to Support Regional THATCamps
CHNM is pleased to announce a major award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the growing regional THATCamp network. The $264,000 award will provide new supports for training in digital methods and make it easier for regional THATCamps to be established and run. A regional coordinator wi
Bracero History Archive Wins NCHP Outstanding Public History Project Award
On Saturday, March 13, 2010, the CHNM’s Bracero History Archive received the National Council on Public History’s award for “Outstanding Public History Project.” The award recognizes excellence in work completed within the previous two calendar years that contributes to a bro
Rosenzweig Forum Returns – Negotiating the Cultural Turn(s): Subjectivity, Sustainability, and Authority in the Digital Humanities
The Rosenzweig Forum for Digital Humanities returns this month with a program entitled “Negotiating the Cultural Turn(s): Subjectivity, Sustainability, and Authority in the Digital Humanities.” On Wednesday, February 17, 2010 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Murray Room of Lauinger Library at Georg
CHNM AHA Panel: Humanities in the Digital Age
On Friday, January 5th, the Center for History and New Media presented a highly successful panel and poster session at the American Historical Association’s 2010 Conference. The CHNM-hosted session aimed to provide participants with an overview of different digital tools and services now available
CHNM Wins International Funding for Digging into Data Challenge
The Center for History and New Media, as part of a team with humanities centers from the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Alberta, has received funding from the Digging into Data Challenge Competition for their project, “Data Mining with Criminal Intent: Using Zotero and TAPoR on
CHNM Grants Administrator Andy Privee Wins the 2009 GMU Mary Roper Award
Andy Privee, the grants administrator for the Center for History and New Media (CHNM), and Kathy Secrist, a long-time staff member of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, were each presented with a 2009 Mary Roper award in a ceremony at the George Mason University Center for the Arts December
CHNM Announces the First Receipient of the AHA Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship
The Center for History and New Media is honored to announce Digital Harlem Everyday Life, 1915-1930 as the inaugural recipient of the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History. The award will be presented at the 2010 AHA Conference in San Diego t
CHNM and Mount Vernon launch Martha Washington biography site
The Center for History and New Media and George Washington’s Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens are proud to announce the launch of a new website chronicling the life of Martha Washington. Through the generosity of Donald and Nancy DeLaski, Martha Washington: a Life (marthawashington.us) examines Mar
George Mason and CHNM to Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall with Support from the German Embassy
The Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989, signaling the end of the Cold War and the beginning of a new era in transatlantic relations and European unity. November 9, 2009 celebrates 20 years since the Berlin Wall was torn down. Long a symbol of isolation and contention, the Berlin Wall now symb