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Between The Wars: The United States, 1919-1941 (History 409)
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 1997) O'Malley, Michael
Bespoke website designed in late 1990s as the digital component of a history course. URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/
Between The Wars: The United States, 1919-1941 (History 409)
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 1997) O'Malley, Michael
Bespoke website designed in late 1990s as the digital component of a history course. URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/
The Presence of the Past Survey
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 1998) Rosenzweig, Roy; Thelen, David
This website supplements The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, published by Columbia University Press in November 1998, offering additional tables beyond those included in the book as well as the full text of the survey questionnaires.
The Culture of the Civil Rights Movement: Exploring Questions of History, Art, and Social Protest HIST 389
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 1998) Smith, Suzanne
Bespoke website designed in late 1990s as the digital component of a history course. URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/smith/SatSem/
Jacksonian Democracy
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 1999) O'Malley, Michael
Bespoke website designed in late 1990s as the digital component of a history course. URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/jackson
Hypertext Scholarship in American Studies
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 1999) Rosenzweig, Roy; Castonguay, James; Krasniewicz, Louise; Blitz, Michael; Thurston, Thomas; Westbrook, David
In order to encourage experimentation in hypertext and scholarship, American Quarterly in collaboration with the American Studies Crossroads Project at Georgetown University and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University launched this experiment in hypertext publishing. Rather than invite more theoretical statements about the possibilities of online publishing, they wanted to see what electronic publication might mean concretely for American studies scholarship. They also wanted to offer some of the conventional validation and peer review that scholarly publication in a journal generally offers. They solicited proposals and approved four projects, which then went through a peer review and revision process before being made available to the public through this website. In addition, the June 1999 issue of American Quarterly included comments on the experiment from the authors and from other scholars.
US History from Reconstruction to the Present (HIST 122)
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 1999) O'Malley, Michael; Smith, Suzanne
Bespoke website designed in late 1990s as the digital component of a US history survey course (HIST 122). Former URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122
Interpreting the Declaration of Independence
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 1999) Finnefrock, Jessica; O'Malley, Michael; Rosenzweig, Roy
The Journal of American History's round table on translations of the Declaration of Independence seemed like a natural candidate for on-line publication. Although the print journal was able to devote a substantial number of pages in the March 1999 issue to the round table, it could not also include the many versions of the Declaration of Independence, as it has been translated into different languages and at different times. Where possible, moreover, we have also included "naive" retranslations back into English so that those who don't know the different languages can get a sense of how some key concepts and words have been rendered. Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/declaration.
The Hard Hat Riots
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2000) Miller, Karl Hagstrom; Noonan, Ellen; Spencer, John
This website is part archive, part essay, and part interactive exhibit. The project focuses on the "hard hat riots" of May 1970. It uses the web's characteristics to foster historical inquiry, making it possible to navigate through multiple sources of evidence, explore diverse perspectives, and make connections within this "web" of material. Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/hardhats.
Blackout History Project
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2000) Sparrow, Jim; Summers, John; Vuong, TuVinh; Cheng, John
The Blackout History Project reconstructed two dramatic social responses to large-scale technological failure, specifically blackouts that encompassed the New York metropolitan region. In early November of 1965, at the height of the cold war, 30 million people living in the most densely populated region of the United States experienced a cascading power failure which blacked out almost the entire Northeast in less than fifteen minutes. Rising to the occasion, New Yorkers assisted each other in a spirit of cooperation and community uncharacteristic of ordinary city life. Twelve years later, in the summer of 1977, the New York metropolitan region experienced another massive power outage, but this time the popular response was quite different. Devastating riots and looting engulfed the poorer sections of the city, inflicting enormous economic damage at a time when New York City was already on its knees. The website includes a timeline of events, an archive of personal stories that were partially collected using a the website interface, and contextualizing essays. Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as part of the Science and Technology in the Making (STIM) project. It was hosted for a year by the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University before moving to George Mason University and continued hosting by the Center for History and New Media at blackout.gmu.edu
Greek American Experiences Between Two Cultures
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2001) Korologos Bazzarone, Ann
Greek American Experiences Between Two Cultures was an online oral history project that provided an opportunity for Greek Americans to record and access stories, anecdotes and personal histories via the world wide web.
The Roots of American Music HIST 389
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2002) Smith, Suzanne
Bespoke website designed in early 00s as the digital component of a history course. URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/smith/hist389f02/
The African American Experience in the United States: From Reconstruction to the Present
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2002) Smith, Suzanne
Bespoke website designed in early 2000s as the digital component of a history course. URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/smith/hist336s02/
Histories of American Popular Music HIST 615
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2002) Smith, Suzanne
Bespoke website designed in early 00s as the digital component of a history course. URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/smith/hist615f02/
Conceptions of the Self: Honors HIST 130
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2002) O'Malley, Michael
Bespoke website designed in early 00s as the digital component of a history course. URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/honors130
New Deal DC
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2003) Center for History and New Media, /
Prior to 2003. This project was intended to showcase DC artwork related to the New Deal. Formerly hosted at http://chnm.gmu.edu/newdeal/ndc/welcome.html.
HIST 499 Civil Rights and Grassroots Politics in 20th-Century America Spring 2003
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2003) Smith, Suzanne
Bespoke website designed in early 2000s as the digital component of a history course.
New Media Group in English
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2003)
This website was created for George Mason University faculty and students of new media writing and new media studies. It includes links to NMGE projects and relevant resources. Hosted at nmge.gmu.edu.
The Roots of American Music HIST 389
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2003) Smith, Suzanne
Bespoke website designed in early 00s as the digital component of a history course. URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/smith/hist389s03/
Magic, Illusion and Detection at the Turn of the Last Century
(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2004) O'Malley, Michael
Website for a history course at George Mason University. This course explored two simultaneous tendencies in American life at the turn of the last century. On the one hand, the rise of industrialization made Americans fascinated with personal transformation--with self making, with economic mobility, and with the possibility of changing your place in life. This new, modern world highlighted the difference between the real and the fake. In an age of mass copies and new identities, how could you tell the genuine, honest man from the con man? As much as they loved magic and personal transformation, Americans of this era loved detection, and the wide range of new techniques--like fingerprints, mug shots, and criminology generally--designed to pin identity down. The course focused on this simultaneous, contradictory fascination with both self transformation and with stabilizing identity. The course made extensive use of this game-like website, which was designed to reproduce some of the ambiguities of historical research itself. Former URL: chnm.gmu.edu/courses/magic/.

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