• Creating Local Linkages: Local History Activity Guide 

  Brett, Megan; Kelly, Mills; Robertson, Stephen; Wilkinson, Corinne; Walters Cooper, LaQuanda; Dauterive, Jessica (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2020-06-05)

  Based on the learning modules of our online course, Creating Local Linkages, the Local History Activity Guide includes models for public programs in libraries, especially those public libraries with special collections ...
• Debating Identity and Origins in Early 20th-Century American Commemoratives 

  Brennan, Sheila A. (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2012)

  Patriotic commemorations flowered following World War I in the United States, as did campaigns for securing limited- issue federal postage stamps. Beginning in 1920 with the Pilgrim Tercentenary issue, commemorative ...
• ‘Little Colored Bits of Paper’ Collected in the Progressive Era 

  Brennan, Sheila A. (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2010)

  While the postal service promotes philately today, it was not until the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1892–1893 that the U.S. Post Office Department acknowledged and capitalized on the growing world of philatelists ...
• Prototyping an Experimental Curated Publication: Digital Humanities Now, 2009-2014 

  Troyano, Joan Fragaszy; Cohen, Dan (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2014-06)

  This White Paper provides a history of the experimental curated publication Digital Humanities Now from its launch in November 2009 through June 2014. Originally distributed as blog posts, this report provides real-time ...
• Guide to Developing a Curated Publication 

  Troyano, Joan Fragaszy (2016-03-02)

  This Guide introduces the intellectual and practical considerations for initiating and sustaining a collaboratively-edited publication that sources and distributes web content. Based on three years of research, design, ...
• Discovering Scholarship on the Open Web: Communities and Methods 

  Troyano, Joan Fragaszy (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, 2013-04)

  Online publications that aggregate content from a wide variety of sources have become increasingly valuable to readers and publishers. The academy, however, is still unsure how to efficiently identify, collect, survey, ...
• Build, Analyse, and Generalise: Community Transcription of the Papers of the War Department and the Development of Scripto 

  Leon, Sharon (Ashgate, 2014)

  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 ...
• Mobile for Museums 

  Leon, Sharon; Brennan, Sheila A.; Lester, David (2009-12)

  For many years, art museums have been at the forefront of offering their visitors learning experiences that extend beyond traditional exhibit labels with gallery kiosks and audio guides. More recently, art museums continue ...
• Scholars as Students Introductory Digital History Training for Mid - Career Historians 

  Leon, Sharon; Brennan, Sheila A. (2015-09-01)

  Mid-career college and university faculty generally have achieved a significant level of expertise in their field of study. At the same time, research suggests that experts may not be so clear about every step of the ...
• Why Collecting History is Web 1.5 

  Brennan, Sheila A.; Kelly, Mills (2009-03)

  This case study offers insights into collecting and preserving history online that the team from the Center for History and New Media learned from building the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (http://hurricanearchive.org). ...
• Project Managment for Humanist: Preparing Future Primary Investigators 

  Leon, Sharon (#alt-academy, MediaCommons, 2011-05-06)

  For individuals with alternative academic careers, obtaining the skill set necessary to keep collaborative projects afloat and headed in the right direction is essential. Alternative academic careers are often made or ...
• A Human Being, and Not a Mere Social Factor: Catholic Strategies for Dealing with Sterilization Statutes in the 1920s 

  Leon, Sharon (Cambridge University Press on behalf of the American Society of Church History, 2004-06)

  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, ...
• Hopelessly Entangled in Nordic Pre-Suppositions: Catholic Participation in the American Eugenics Society in the 1920s 

  Leon, Sharon (Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 2004)

  This article examines the involvement of U.S. Catholics in the American Eugenics Society during the 1920′s. While Catholics were often opponents of eugenics, John A. Ryan and John Montgomery Cooper, both Catholic priests ...
• Tensions Not Unlike that Produced by a Mixed Marriage: Daniel Marshall and Catholic Challenges to Anti-Misecegenation Statutes 

  Leon, Sharon (Catholic University of America Press, 2008)

  In 1948, the California Supreme Court declared the state’s anti-miscegenation statute unconstitutional. Twenty years before the U.S. Supreme Court came to the same conclusion in Loving v. Virginia, Daniel Marshall argued ...
• Xayaburi and the Mekong Critical Point: Over-Damming the Shared River and Bigger Threats to the Shared Future 

  Le, Nhina (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2013-06)

  Despite the correlation between hydropower plant construction and economic growth, Laos’ approach to the Xayaburi issue may backfire. The construction of big dams on the Mekong River would lead to food insecurity and ...
• Is Google Good for History? 

  Cohen, Dan (2010-01-07)
• Smithsonian 1.1 and 2.9 

  Cohen, Dan (2009-01-27)
• Smithsonian 2.0 

  Cohen, Dan (2009-01-22)
• Sol LeWitt and the Soul of Creative and Intellectual Work 

  Cohen, Dan (2008-12-07)
• Leave the Blogging to Us 

  Cohen, Dan (2008-12-05)

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