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Histories of the National Mall will make visible the rich past of the National Mall for its millions of on-site visitors through a website easily accessible by mobile phones that provides content and interpretation far superior to static guidebooks and existing mobile tours and applications.

A vast, free historical archive has emerged on the Internet. New technology, together with millions of dollars in government and foundation funding, has democratized access to the historical record in ways unimaginable. The potential represented by this development has only been partially realized because most students lack the skills to decipher historical texts and to synthesize them into coherent narratives. Many teachers are similarly ill prepared.This project addresses the paradox of an…

Hidden in Plain Sight is an online course for practicing K-12 teachers in the Commonwealth of Virginia designed to teach about America's past through everyday objects. This course was created by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University with funding from the Virginia Department of Education

The CHNM team in the summer of 2007 gather for a group photo to send to Roy Rosenzweig while he was in Boston for treatment.

A fifth-grade student examines a photo at the Maryland Historical Society. Teaching American History activities explored how to analyze photographs as historical evidence.

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Drawing on the latest archival-based research on the Gulag, this web exhibit provides an innovative, multifaceted consideration of the human struggle for survival in the Gulag, the brutal and often lethal Soviet system of forced labor concentration camps and internal exile.