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Eighth-grade students closely examine the wording of the Declaration of Independence in a Teaching American History activity.

Defining US: The American Experience is a Fairfax County Public Schools Teaching American History project designed in partnership with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University to increase teachers' and students' knowledge of traditional American history and ability to analyze primary sources and think historically. Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, TAH grants developed, documented, evaluated, and disseminated innovative and cohesive models of…

The audience members participating in Digital Campus LIVE RECORDING with interaction of the audience. Taken by George H. Brett II.

The audience members participating in Digital Campus LIVE RECORDING with interaction of the audience. Taken by George H. Brett II.

In 2008, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) created an informal yearly conference on digital methods in the humanities called THATCamp—The Humanities and Technology Camp. The new style of the conference, with its emphasis on communicating new methods and trying things out rather than talking formally, helped to attract a wide range of curious scholars, and it spawned numerous locally-organized regional THATCamps in 2009. This proposal intends to leverage the energy and attendance of…

A teacher participating in the Teaching American History program sketches the National Building Museum in process exploring how architecture can be analyzed as a historical source.

Echo 2 worked to build on the efforts of Echo 1. Beginning in July 2005, week-long, intensive workshops for fifteen participants who plan to create online projects in the history of science, technology, and industry.