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Item A Look Back at Braddock District(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2011) Bulova, Sharon; Cook, John; Center for History and New MediaThe Honorable Sharon Bulova spearheaded A Look Back at Braddock, when she represented Braddock District on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors in 2005. She initiated a series of town meetings, inviting historians and archaeologists to talk about the history of the Fairfax County's Braddock area. A task force of 80 volunteers formed out of those meetings and initiated an oral history project. From the oral history project, the book, Braddock's True Gold: 20th Century Life in the Heart of Fairfax County, a companion map of historical sites, a video, and a student history competition for secondary students evolved. This website augments and extends Braddock's True Gold with greater access to the research and documentation collected by the project team and contributed by community residents. The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media conceptualized, designed, and produced the website using Omeka. Hosted at braddockheritage.org.Item American Egyptomania(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2004) Grafton, Scott; English Department; Center for History and New MediaAmerican Egyptomania was a joint project of the Center for History and New Media, the English Department at George Mason University and Professor Scott Trafton, and the College of Arts and Sciences' Technology Across the Curriculum program (TAC). This website is devoted to exploring American fascination with Egypt and its history. It includes primary source documents, a list of secondary literature, and a list of web resources. Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/egyptomania.Item American Women’s Dime Novel Project(2013) Carr, FeliciaThis website grew out of George Mason University Cultural Studies PhD Felicia Carr's research for her dissertation entitled “All For Love: Gender and Class and the Woman’s Dime Novel in Nineteenth-Century America,” which examines the genre of women’s dime novel writing and its role in changing gender and class formations. The website includes a cover gallery, introductory essay, primary source materials, and links to digitized dime novels. Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/dimenovels.Item CIA Declassified(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2008) Leon, SharonCirca 2008. This site was a prototype for a project dedicated to opening the historical record of the CIA to the public. The documents featured in this collection offer a glimpse at the Agency's activities. Though the majority these holdings are Agency documents meant for internal use, personal interviews and recollections are also included. The project welcomed contributions of personal recollections from those involved in the Central Intelligence Agency and its related institutions. Published using Omeka.Item Civic Education Project and Digital Memory Bank(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2008) Civic Education Project; Kelly, Mills1991-2008. The Civic Education Project is an international non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1991 to promote pluralism and international standards in social science education in countries developing civil society capacity. From 1991-2004 they operated three different fellowship programs in Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and over 20,000 students participated in courses offered by the program. The website that was archived in 2019 was actively developed from circa 2007-2008 and included a memory bank where fellows, staff members, students, and partners could write about their personal experiences with the program. It also included a replica of the original website from circa 1999-2006. Formerly hosted at civiceducationproject.org.Item Creating Local Linkages(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2020-05) Brett, Megan; Legg, Jannelle; Walters Cooper, LaQuanda; Robertson, Stephen; Kelly, Mills; Brennan, Sheila A.; Dauterive, Jessica; Nguyen, Kim; Wilkinson, CorinneCreating Local Linkages created an open-access curriculum, and a series of online courses using that curriculum, that introduced public librarians to the core elements of researching and publishing local history using digital tools. There were four course cycles. Course participants had access to a users-only forum, powered by Commons in a Box (CBox), where they could post responses and discuss the modules. CBox also enabled them to create documents to share with the teaching team and each other. Over the five modules, participants built out sample content on Omeka.net sites. In addition to the online courses, the team led two in-person workshops based on the CLL curriculum. At the end of the grant period, the team produced a Local History Activity Guide for public librarians to use when planning online or in-person programming, based on the course modules.Item Curiosities from the Streets: 19th Century London to Today(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2009) Thompson, Kenneth; Messenger, MattCharles Hindley's Curiosities of Street Literature, a compilation of British broadside ballads, was published by Reeves and Turner in London in 1871. This digital edition was edited and prepared by Kenneth Thompson and Matt Messenger in 2009 using Omeka. Dr. Thompson was a Term Associate Professor of English and Matt Messenger was a graduate student in History at George Mason. Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/curiosity/.Item Data Mining With Criminal Intent(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2011) Cohen, Dan; Hitchcock, Tim; Rockwell, Geoffrey; Sander, Jörg; Shoemaker, Robert; Sinclair, Stéfan; Takats, Sean; Turkel, WilliamThe Datamining with Criminal Intent project brings together three online resources: the Old Bailey Online, Zotero and TAPoR. It allows users to study the rich Old Bailey resource (127 milllion words of trial accounts), using analytical tools from TAPoR like Voyeur and information management tools like Zotero. Researchers interested in studying the Old Bailey can now work in a distributed research environment where they can query the Old Bailey site through a dedicated API; save result sets and queries to their Zotero account where they can be managed; and then send result sets from Zotero to text analysis tools like the Voyeur tools which have been enhanced to optimise their usefulness with these texts.Item Early Identification Program 20th Anniversary: Many Faces, Many Dreams(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2007) Center for History and New Media; George Mason University Early Identification ProgramThis website commemorates the 20th anniversary of George Mason University's Early Identification Program, an innovative, multiyear college preparatory program for first-generation college-bound middle and high school students. Established in 1987, EIP works in partnership with seven local public school systems to increase the number of students who will be the first in their family to attend college by heightening their academic aspirations. This Omeka site includes photographs, articles, and testimonials. Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/eip.Item Eleanor Roosevelt: Courage to Lead(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2011) RRCHNM; Eleanor Roosevelt Papers ProjectThis is not a full capture of the original Eleanor Roosevelt: Courage to Lead project, which was intended to highlight the activities and life of former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt through creating digital versions of her personal papers and other sources related to her. URL: http://chnm.gmu.edu/ER/ER-narrative.html http://eleanorroosevelt.orgItem Farm Security Administration(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2010)From 1935 to 1943, photographers working for the federal government produced the most enduring images of the Great Depression. Beginning under the auspices of the Resettlement Administration in 1935 and then the Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1937, a group that over time included about twenty men and women worked under the supervision of Roy E. Stryker to create a pictorial record of the impact of hard times on the nation, primarily on rural Americans. This website was dedicated to showcasing this work.Item Features: Conversations with Historians(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2009) Center for History and New Media, /Estimated circa 1996, not updated since 2009 or possibly 2013. This site was intended to feature interviews with historians, explorations of historical sources and maps, and similar historical material. Formerly hosted at http://chnm.gmu.edu/features/.Item For Us the Living(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2018) Schrum, Kelly; Rosenfeld, Jennifer; McCartney, James; Lee, Joo Ah; Preperato, Chris; White, Gwendolyn K.; Broubalow, Justin; Swain, Greta; Kelley, Caroline; Nunez, BriannaFor Us the Living is a series of five interactive modules that encourage high school students to explore American history through the stories found in Alexandria National Cemetery. Established in 1862 as one of the nation’s first national cemeteries during the Civil War, Alexandria National Cemetery’s rich history invites students to explore connections to the Civil War, civil rights history, women’s history, the Lincoln assassination, and Reconstruction. Through the modules, students learn historical and critical thinking skills as well as content — the “how” of history in addition to the “what.” Each module invites students to analyze primary and secondary sources, including photographs, maps, legislation, diaries, letters, and video interviews with scholars. At the end of each module, students can complete a digital activity or service learning project related to the module theme, at their teacher’s discretion.Item Forward Capture: Imagine the Future of Public History(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2009) Center for History and New Media; National Council on Public HistoryThe National Council on Public History celebrated its 30th year in 2009-2010. In conjunction with the 30th anniversary celebration and a conference session organized by Teresa DeFlitch at the April 2009 NCPH conference, this Omeka site served as a place where anyone with an interest in public history could contribute thoughts about the future of the field, in the form of brief narrative descriptions of about 500 words.Item Greek American Experiences Between Two Cultures(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2001) Korologos Bazzarone, AnnGreek 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.Item Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2008-09-30) Barnes, Steven A.; Rosenzweig, Roy; Scheinfeldt, Tom; White, Gwendolyn K.; Razlogova, Elena; Brennan, Sheila A.; Griffith, Misha Mazzini; Mikheeva, Anastasia; Hurter, Alexis; Ghajar, Lee Ann; Visintin, Mjiriana; Boggs, Jeremy; Hurter, Stephanie R.; Veprek, Laura; Kelly, Kristopher; Shuman, Amanda; Graulich, Andrew; Vinokur, Misha; Shepherd, AmmonThe website Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives presented the history of the gulag system as a browseable archive of videos, art, artifacts, photographs, and life stories of former Gulag prisoners. It featured thematic exhibitions, including a virtual tour of the reconstructed camp and museum made possible by the Gulag Museum at Perm-36. There were also teaching resources for introducing the Gulag's history into middle and high school classrooms. The project originated in a collaboration between Steven Barnes, CHNM, and the National Park Service. The content now at gulaghistory.org/nps was an online version of a traveling exhibit GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom, which was developed by the National Park Service, Amnesty International USA, the Gulag Museum in Perm, Russia, and the International Memorial Society. The exhibit opened in 2006 and was on view through 2008. The NPS exhibit website was made possible through a Teaching Across the Curriculum Grant awarded to Dr. Barnes by George Mason University Dr. Barnes worked with partners at the Gulag Museum at Perm 36 (2004-2014) to secure funding from to make a web exhibit about the experiences of the prisoners of the Gulag, and to hold a conference on the topic. The conference was held at the Davis Center at Harvard University and funded by the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. The teaching materials on the site were created by the Davis Center at Harvard University. The devblog subdomain (gulaghistory.org/devblog), preserved here, was a Moveable Type site used by the project team between 2004 and 2005 while working on a prototype site for a grant application to the National Endowment for the Humanities (gulaghistory.org/neh). The grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities allowed them to build the main site, which utilized an early version of the Omeka software. Barnes started a podcast to highlight new scholarship on Soviet and Russian history during the period of the Gulag (gulaghistory.org/podcast), but only two episodes were released.Item here is new york: a democracy of photographs(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2004) here is new yorkIn response to the World Trade Center tragedy, and to the unprecedented flood of images that have resulted from it, a unique exhibition and sale of photographs was displayed in a store front in SOHO. HERE IS New York was not a conventional gallery show. It was tailored to the nature of the event and to the response it elicited. The exhibition was subtitled "A Democracy of Photographs" because anyone and everyone who took pictures related to the tragedy was invited to submit their images to the gallery, where they were digitally scanned, printed and displayed on the walls alongside the work of top photojournalists and other professional photographers. All of the prints were sold to the public for $25, regardless of their provenance. The net proceeds from the sale of these prints went to the Children's Aid Society WTC Relief Fund. After the gallery show ended, the photographs were exhibited on this website. Formerly hosted at hereisnewyork.org.Item Historical Simulations(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2011) Pellegrino, AnthonyThe purpose of this WordPress website was to gather lesson plans and activities from teachers and teacher-educators who have found success in using historical simulations in social studies classrooms. The website ultimately did not include any lesson plans, only a link to one simulation activity on another website. Formerly hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/historicalsimulations.Item 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, DavidIn 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.Item Interpreting the Declaration of Independence(Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 1999) Finnefrock, Jessica; O'Malley, Michael; Rosenzweig, RoyThe 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.