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Washington Area Technology & Humanities Fall Forum
This fall the Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities is pleased to present: Bob Stein on “The Evolution of Reading and Writing in the Networked Era” For the past several hundred years intellectual discourse has been shaped by the rhythms and hierarchies inherent in the
History Clearinghouse Contract, Omeka Grant
The Center for History and New Media is proud to announce its award of two major grants last week from the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. CHNM received a $7 million contract from the U.S. Department of Education, one of the largest competitive grants e
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 Helps Launch Local History Project
The Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce the launch of a new project, A Look Back at Braddock District, Fairfax County, Virginia at www.braddockheritage.org. Working with a committed team of volunteer researchers from the office of The Honorable Sharon Bulova, Braddock District Su
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
Firefox Co-Founder Blake Ross Interviewed by CHNM
This week the Mozilla Digital Memory Bank podcast features Firefox co-founder, Blake Ross. Ross first came to fame in 2002 after appearing on the cover of Wired Magazine while still a high school student. Ross agreed to meet with CHNM research assistants Ken Albers and Olivia Ryan at a California pu
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank Earns AASLH Award
The American Association of State and Local History recently awarded The Center for History and New Media and the University of New Orleans an Award of Merit for Leadership in History for our work on the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (www.hurricanearchive.org). AASLH presents the Award of Merit to h
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