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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
“Voices from the Storm” Podcast Debuts
This summer CHNM’s Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) features a new series of podcasts, “Voices from the Storm.” Each week, from now until the end of September, Mills Kelly and Sheila Brennan read stories submitted to the online archive. Listeners hear from hurricane evacuees an
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
CHNM and The Speech Accent Archive on NPR
Lynn Neary of National Public Radio’s Weekend Edition spoke with Professor of Linguistics, Steven Weinberger, about The Speech Accent Archive, a CHNM-affliated site. The speech accent archive is established to uniformly exhibit a large set of speech accents from a variety of language backgroun
CHNM and National Park Service Open Ellis Island Exhibition
CHNM is pleased to announce the opening of a virtual and physical exhibit on the Russian Gulag. CHNM has teamed with the U.S. National Park Service and the Gulag Museum in Perm, Russia, to provide a companion website for the traveling exhibit Gulag: Soviet Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom, n
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank gets an A+ from Education World
Stating that the “site is very well designed and interesting,” Education World awarded CHNM’s Hurricane Digital Memory Bank an A+ rating. It also recommended the project to students and teachers at nearly all grade levels, from early elementary to high school. Education World helps
Cohen and Rosenzweig on Death of Multiple-Choice Exams
CHNM staffers Dan Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig have published an article in the Feb. 24, 2006 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education on the implications of Cohen’s H-Bot software, and of similar data-mining services and the web in general. “No Computer Left Behind” argues that just
Women in World History Recognizes National Women’s History Month
In recognition of National Women’s History Month, CHNM’s NEH-funded Women in World History website would like to announce its imminent completion. Women and World History provides free access to primary sources about women across all time periods and world cultures – valuable resou
Cohen on Illinois Public Radio
On Friday, February 3, CHNM’s Director of Research Projects, Dan Cohen appeared on Illinois Public Radio’s Focus 580 to discuss his recent book, Digital History and other topics in history and new media. The entire interview is now available as an MP3 file from WILL’s website.
CHNM named among “The Best of the Humanities on the Web” by NEH
The Center for History and New Media has been nominated for inclusion in the National Endowment for the Humanities’ EDSITEment: The Best of the Humanities on the Web project as one of the best online resources for education in the humanities. A peer review panel composed of educators and admin