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The John Carter Brown Library Supports the Production of Worlds Turned Upside Down
RRCHNM’s R2 Studios is thrilled to announce that The John Carter Brown Library (JCB) has generously invested $10,000 in support of our latest podcast, Worlds Turned Upside Down. Worlds Turned Upside Down tells the story of the American Revolution as a transatlantic crisis and imperial civil war th
RRCHNM Launches Next Round of Teaching Guides for Pre-Service History Teachers
Funded by the Library of Congress, the four teaching guides support new prospective teachers teaching Indigenous history and will be available on Teachinghistory.org. RRCHNM is proud to announce the launch of four new resources for pre-service teachers on Indigenous history in the United States. The
Talking to the Dead: Spiritualists and Seances
During my time working on the American Religious Ecologies project I became focused on female ministers and other types of religious leadership that appear in the Census. This interest aligns well with my dissertation research, which focuses on female preachers in the nineteenth century and their bo
Exploring True Crime in Early Modern Europe in the Classroom
This semester I’m using my expertise on crime and violence in a new way: I’m teaching an upper-level undergraduate course “True Crime in Early Modern Europe.” When we think of the true crime genre, we tend to think of documentaries, Netflix shows, Pulp Fiction, and podcasts, to name just a f
Jessica Otis Receives NEH Funding To Develop and Host Summer Institute On DH Methods
Jessica Otis of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) in collaboration with Ashley Sanders of UCLA, have been awarded funding as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities program. This grant will facilitate an
Nate Sleeter and Kelly Schrum Receive NEH Funding To Host Summer Faculty Institute
Dr. Nate Sleeter, of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), and Dr. Kelly Schrum, of the Higher Education Program (HEP), at George Mason University have been awarded funding as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Institutes for Higher Education Faculty program
Amanda Madden Receives NEH Funding to Create a Digital Edition of Goro Dati’s Sfera
Amanda Madden of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), in collaboration with Carrie Beneš of New College of Florida, Laura Ingallinella of the University of Toronto, and independent scholar Laura Morreale, have been awarded a major grant as part of the National Endowment for
Nate Sleeter Becomes RRCHNM’s Director of Educational Projects
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce that Dr. Nate Sleeter has become our new Director of Educational Projects. The K–12 and college educational resources that RRCHNM makes freely available to teachers, students, and parents regularly receive millions of visit
RRCHNM Past, Present, and Future
The first time that I came across the name Roy Rosenzweig was in the textbook for a class titled simply, “Historiography.” The book discussed Rosenzweig’s 1983 book, Eight Hours for What We Will, as a key work in American labor history. Since Eight Hours is a history of workers in Worcester, M
Passing the Baton
At the 2001 annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Roy Rosenzweig dumped a cup of coffee on me. He didn’t mean to, of course, but he did. It happened in the days when search committees often interviewed job candidates in hotel rooms and I was there to interview for a job at George