Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

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Since 1994, the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past.

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    2006: Crossroads for Copyright
    (2005-12-29) Cohen, Dan
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    A Human Being, and Not a Mere Social Factor: Catholic Strategies for Dealing with Sterilization Statutes in the 1920s
    (Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History, 2004-06) Leon, Sharon
    This article reviews the developing strategies of Catholic opposition to state laws for compulsory sterilization of so-called ‘feeble-minded’ residents of state institutions during the 1920s. In 1927 the Supreme Court, in its landmark decision Buck v. Bell, affirmed the constitutionality of such laws. This article traces the work of Catholic moral theologians, such as John A. Ryan, and representatives of various lay organizations in opposing such laws and educating Catholic laity on the natural law issues in the debate. In 1930 the National Catholic Welfare Conference published four pamphlets in a series entitled ‘Problems of Mental Deficiency’ that provided a full compliment of medical, legal, and moral objections to the laws. On 31 December 1930 Pope Pius XI in his encyclical ‘Casti Connubii’ provided an authoritative pronouncement on eugenics and sterilization that reaffirmed Catholic opposition to eugenics policy initiatives.
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    A Look Back at Braddock District
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2011) Bulova, Sharon; Cook, John; Center for History and New Media
    The 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.
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    American Egyptomania
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2004) Grafton, Scott; English Department; Center for History and New Media
    American 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.
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    American History Now: Explorations in Digital Curation
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2014) O'Malley, Michael
    2013-2014. American History Now was a WordPress publication developed as part of the PressForward project. As part of the broad effort to redefine scholarly communication in the digital age, American History Now sought to use digital media to make the peer review process more open, facilitate intellectual discussion, and build a community of readers. Conceived as an experiment in digital curation focused on collecting, juxtaposing, and framing ideas, American History Now eschewed a long pre-publication peer review and editing process. Instead, all relevant content submitted was accepted for immediate publication and opened to peer review through comments by readers. American History Now republished work found elsewhere and solicited original material. The first and only “issue” of American History Now was dedicated to vinyl, its history, and its current place in American culture. The original plan was to turn the scholarship on the site into an ebook exhibit at the end of the project in April 2014, but that final step was never completed.
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    American Women’s Dime Novel Project
    (2013) Carr, Felicia
    This 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.
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    Anthologize
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2010) Leon, Sharon; Gorges, Boone; Murray-John, Patrick; Cohen, Dan; Boggs, Jeremy; Owens, Trevor; Brennan, Sheila A.; Casden, Jason; Gossett, Kathie; Hanrath, Scott; Kapsalis, Effie; Knox, Doug; McCune, Zachary; Meloni, Julie; Ramsay, Steve; Rashleigh, Patrick; Remy, Jana; Scheinfeldt, Tom
    Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic texts. Grab posts from your WordPress blog, import feeds from external sites, or create new content directly within Anthologize. Then outline, order, and edit your work, crafting it into a single volume for export in several formats, including—in this release—PDF, ePUB, TEI. Anthologize was built during One Week One Tool, an NEH Summer Institute at George Mason University’s Center for History and New Media. Major sponsors of Anthologize were the Office of Digital Humanities of the National Endowment for the Humanities, City Tech OpenLab, and Demokratie & Dialog e.V. This site was intended to promote and provide resources for Anthologize, while the plugin itself is available in the WordPress plugins directory (https://wordpress.org/plugins/anthologize/). Hosted at anthologize.org.
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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/
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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/
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    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
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    Build, Analyse, and Generalise: Community Transcription of the Papers of the War Department and the Development of Scripto
    (Ashgate, 2014) Leon, Sharon
    RRCHNM’s foray into community transcription with the Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and the development of Scripto offers some significant lessons for cultural heritage institutions and professionals who want to engage with their constituents in meaningful ways. Primarily, we gained a dedicated and engaged audience for PWD, and a tremendous insight into their motivations. Equally important, the development process for the generalized tool, and its role in the larger ecosystem of open-source software that enables widespread user participation in cultural heritage projects, points to viable directions for the development of subsequent tools. Together this case study of PWD and the story of the creation of Scripto suggest that a wide range of cultural heritage organizations can launch and sustain lightweight transcription projects that encourage increased engagement with core audiences.
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    Building the Washington Metro
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2007-02-26T20:44:56Z) The Echo Project; Schrag, Zachary M.
    This site tells the story of the Washington Metro, a 103-mile rapid transit system serving Washington, D.C., and the surrounding areas of Maryland and Virginia. Planning for Metro began in the 1950s, construction began in 1969, and the first segment opened for operation in 1976. Metro is one of the largest public-works projects ever built, and it is the second-busiest rail transit system in the United States. This site was researched and written by Zachary M. Schrag, author of The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006). Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/mars/metro.
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    Burroughing into Mexico
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2020-09-01) Brett, Megan; Mullen, Abby; Cote, Andrew; McKenzie, David; Phelps, Nicole
    Season 1, Episode 1 of Consolation Prize. In our first episode of Consolation Prize, we go to Mexico to investigate how Americans tried to maintain their rights as Americans while sometimes subverting Mexican authority. In particular, we focus on Marmaduke Burrough’s relationship with one American merchant, John Baldwin. Credits: Host: Abby Mullen Producers: Abby Mullen and Megan Brett Music: Andrew Cote Voice acting: Mills Kelly Production assistant: Brenna Reilley Experts: David McKenzie and Nicole Phelps https://consolationprize.rrchnm.org/episode-1/
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    CHNM Tools
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2008)
    This is a zipped code dump of the various research tools developed by RRCHNM. These tools included survey builders, poll builders, web scrapbooking, syllabus finders, note taking tools, and more.
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    CIA Declassified
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2008) Leon, Sharon
    Circa 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.
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    Civic Education Project and Digital Memory Bank
    (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2008) Civic Education Project; Kelly, Mills
    1991-2008. 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.
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    Claude Shannon: the Man and His Impact
    (2007-02-26T20:45:02Z) RRCHNM
    The Claude Shannon project seeks to preserve the memory of the man whose mathematical theories laid the groundwork for the digital communication technology underlying the Internet. Shannon’s ideas, initially applied to telephone switching systems and early computing, proved tremendously useful in other scientific fields including genetics, encryption, and quantum physics. Shannon, dubbed the father of modern information theory, also applied his theoretical work to one of his favorite hobbies, juggling. His famous juggling machines illustrated his creativity, inveterate tinkering and great powers of invention.Hosted at chnm.gmu.edu/mars/shannon.
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    Clio Wired (History 696) 2014
    (2014) Takats, Sean
    Website designed in mid-2010s as the digital component of an introduction to digital history course, required for PhD students in the Department of History and Art History