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Public hearing for new CHNM project: “Virginia History Here”
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will host a public hearing to consider its planned proposal to the Virginia Deptartment of Transportation’s enhancement program for a new project, “Virginia History Here.” The project plans to use new mobile communicat
Echo site chosen as Voice of America’s “Website of the Week”
August 20, 2005 : The Center for History and New Media is happy to announce that Our World, Voice of America’s weekly science and technology magazine, selected Echo as their “Website of the Week.” Art Chimes, the host of Our World, discussed the dynamic and diverse nature of Echo w
Speech Accent Archive relaunched
The Center for History and New Media, Technology Across the Curriculum Program, and the Linguistics Program in the Department of English are pleased to announce the release of a newly designed and expanded website: the speech accent archive. Originally started by Professor Steven Weinberger in 1998,
Rosenzweig on Digital Archives in Chronicle of Higher Education
CHNM Director, Roy Rosenzweig appears in this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education with a column entitled Digital Archives Are a Gift of Wisdom to Be Used Wisely. In the article, Rosenzweig argues that it is not enough to digitize sources and build archives. Rather, the librarians, archivists,
Completion of Lost Museum Announced
Together with longtime collaborators at the CUNY Graduate Center’s American Social History Project, CHNM is happy to announce the completion of The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum American Life and Culture. This innovative, interactive website re-creates P. T. Barnum�s American Museum,
CHNM Website Rated Tops by ISTE
The Center for History and New Media is happy to announce that its website has been chosen as one of the best for secondary school teachers by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Written by James Lerman and published by ISTE 101 Best Web Sites for Secondary Teachers lists C
History Matters Recognized by New York Public Library
The New York Public Library selected History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web to be included in its Best of Reference 2005. The Best of Reference, created each year by a committee of librarians from The New York Library, is a list of 25 reference books and websites acknowledging useful res
CHNM-affiliated project profiled in Chronicle
The Business Plan Archive, a project directed by David Kirsch at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business and hosted at CHNM, is featured this week in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Business Plan Archive is a cousin to CHNM’s own Echo: Exploring and Collect
Cohen, Syllabus Finder featured in Inside Higher Ed
Reviewed this week in Inside Higher Ed is an article by CHNM Director of Research Projects, Dan Cohen. The subject of the article, which appears in the most recent issue of the Journal of American History is CHNM’s innovative software tool, Syllabus Finder and the sophisticated analysis of the
Digital Stories: Multimedia Narratives, Cultural Resources, and Humanities Knowledge
This spring’s Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities, which will focus on new ways of representing humanities knowledge through short multimedia narrative. Authors of these multimedia narratives combine images, music and sound from personal and cultural archives, cultural in