CHNM has been awarded a contract build a custom collections management system for the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. The new system will allow NMAJH researchers working at …
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In partnership with the City University of New York’s City College and the American Social History Project, and with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for …
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This fall’s Washington DC Area Forum on Technology and the Humanities focuses on “Digital Tools for the Humanities: What’s Being Developed? What is Needed?” Our panelists are …
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In partnership with colleagues at the University of Maryland and the Internet Archive, CHNM has received an award from the Library of Congress’s National Digital Information Infrastructure and …
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History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online Alan Gevinson, Kelly Schrum, Roy Rosenzweig Based on the award-winning website History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, which is a …
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Echo: Exploring and Collecting History Online - Science, Technology, and Industry (http://echo.gmu.edu/) announces the launch of its redesigned, expanded, and improved website. Funded by the Alfred P. …
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CHNM Assistant Director Tom Scheinfeldt discusses the September 11 Digital Archive on Chicago’s WGN Radio 720 “Nick at Night” show. Click here to listen to the interview.
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From September 11, 2002 to July 6, 2003, more than 1 million people from around the world visited “September 11: Bearing Witness to History,” an exhibit at the National Museum of American …
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Here Is New York, the online gallery of images depicting the September 11 attacks and their aftermath, will not go the way of most website content, vanishing forever into the cyber-ether: Rather, this …
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Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown, these periodic forums will …
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The American Library Association’s Machine-Assisted Reference Section (MARS) committee included History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web on its sixth annual list of Best Free Reference …
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On the 25th anniversary of the home pregnancy test kit, the National Institutes of Health and CHNM launched A Thin Blue Line, a new web exhibit that explores the history of the pregnancy test kit from …
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