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How can technology help teachers to teach historical and critical thinking? | DH Fellow’s Blogpost
Amanda Regan (1st Year Digital history Fellow) How can technology help teachers to teach historical and critical thinking? Getting students to think critically about historical events rather than just memorizing the facts is challenging, but digital technology can help. With so many new digita
How It’s Made: Public History Projects | DH Fellow’s Blogpost
Spencer Roberts (2nd Year Digital history Fellow) In a recent conversation, a friend inquired about the projects on which I am working here at the RRCHNM. I explained that I am currently assigned to a project about the War of 1812 on behalf of the National Park Service, and described the basic eleme
Getty Foundation Funds a Digital Humanities Summer Institute for Art Historians at RRCHNM
The Getty Foundation recently awarded the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media a grant to organize and run a digital humanities summer institute for art historians in 2014. “Digital Humanities for Art Historians” will target art historians, from graduate students, to mid-career and se
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The Challenges of Making a Challenge | DH Fellow’s Blogpost
Anne McDivitt (1st year Digital History Fellow) For the past few weeks at the Center for History and New Media, my fellow first year Digital History Fellows and myself were assigned to work in the Education division, which produces projects that are designed to teach history to a wide scope of peopl
RRCHNM Welcomes Stephanie Westcott
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media are very happy to welcome Stephanie Westcott to our ranks as a Research Assistant Professor. Stephanie is a historian of U.S. popular culture, with a recent dissertation from University of Wisconsin, Madison titled “Producing Panic: Media
Readings Course in Digital History | DH Fellow’s blogpost
Ben Hurwitz (2nd year Digital History Fellow) Since its inception, the George Mason history PhD program has emphasized exposure to the Digital Humanities (DH). The program requires completion of two courses that introduce students to digital tools and developments in the DH community. In addition to
RRCHNM Graduate Students Organize Inaugural Rails Girls DH
Guest post by RRCHNM Graduate Research Assistants, Jeri Wieringa and Celeste Sharpe As women graduate students working in digital humanities, we know first-hand the gender gap in our field. With few women programmers working in the digital humanities, and a lack of opportunities generally for women
The Impact of Education Projects | DH Fellow’s blogpost
As fellows in the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, my cohort and I will spend the better part of this year working within the three divisions, engaged in hands-on work with the tools and projects CHNM produces. We’ve begun our foray in the educational projects division of CHNM and
Digital History Fellows At RRCHNM
The first Monday all-staff meeting of the year at RRCHNM was devoted to an orientation for the fourteen Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs) who will be working at the Center in 2013-14. GRAs are a key part of the Center’s staff, working in a range of capacities on projects in all three divisions