Who Built America?

Who Built America?

History in New Media: U.S. History CD-ROM

We propose to produce a U.S. history CD-ROM for both public and in-school audiences. Who Built America? A Nation Transformed, 1914-1946, uses hypertext and multimedia to survey a vast panorama of key historical events. Public access will be assured by the distribution of free copies to schools and public libraries and by placing portions of the completed CD-ROMs on the Internet.  The overall goal is to develop prototypes for presenting scholarly-based historu through electronic media and to foster increased dialogue about the use of new media for the presentation of the humanities to in-school and public audiences.

(The grant proposal included a second CD-ROM, Landscapes in Time, that would provide a dense portrait of a particaulr time and a single place. That project was not funded in 1995. The American Social History Project reapplied in 1996 and received limited funding to develop this project. It became The Lost Museum)

09/01/1995

08/31/1997

Roy Rosenzweig

Stephen Brier

Roy Rosenzweig

Mike O'Malley

Barbara Melosh

Joshua Brown

Pennee Bender

Andrea Ades Vasquez

National Endowment for the Humanities

American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning