Projects

Who Built America?
1995-09-01
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…
The Lost Museum
1996-01-01
A re-creation of PT Barnum’s American Museum as a lens into mid-19th century New York City and antebellum America. The Lost Museum website offers visitors a visualization and spacial interpretation of…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution
1997-06-01
LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY: EXPLORING THE FRENCH REVOUTION provides an accessible and lively introduction to the French Revolution as well as an extraordinary archive of some of the most important…
History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web
1998-02-20
Designed for high school and college teachers and students of U.S. history survey courses, this site serves as a gateway to online resources and offers unique teaching materials, first-person primary…
Interpreting the Declaration of Independence by Translation
1999-03-01
The Journal of American History's round table on translations of the Declaration of Independence seemed like a natural candidate for on-line publication. Although the print journal was able to devote…
Fostering the Recent History of Science and Technology in New Media (Echo 1)
2001-01-01
Echo 1 engaged in cultivating on-line archival practices among well-defined audiences and enabling popular engagement in the recent history of science and technology through web-based interactivity.…
September 11 Digital Archive: Collecting, Preserving and Presenting the Past
2002-01-01
The September 11 Digital Archive will play a key role in the use of electronic media to collect, preserve and present the history of the September 11 attacks and the public responses.
World History Sources
2002-07-01
World History Sources provides a portal to world history websites developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

Original project title: World History Matters
Defining US: The American Experience
2002-10-01
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…
Women, World History, and the Web: Teaching and Learning Through Online Primary Sources
2003-07-01
Women, World History, and the Web creates an online curriculum resource center to help high school and college world history teachers and their students locate and analyze primary sources dealing with…
Creating a More Perfect Community
2003-10-01
Creating a More Perfect Community is a Alexandria City Public Schools Teaching American History project designed in partnership with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason…
Peopling the American Past
2003-10-01
Peopling the American Past is a Teaching American History project designed in partnership with the Clarke, Culpeper, Fauquier, Frederick, Manassas City, Orange, and Winchester Public Schools and the…
Western Civilization Webography Project
2004-01-01
The Webography Project helps students learn to review the historical content of websites. Students using the Project visit and review one or more websites, answering questions in a database and…
Echo 2: Exploring and Collecting the History of Science, Technology, and Industry in a Digital Era
2004-07-01
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,…
EDSITEment: The Lessons of History
2004-09-01
Partner in project headed by David Jaffee (CUNY). Three software tools for the NEH’s EDSITEment web portal will include a “Text Collection and Annotation Tool,” an “Image Collection and Annotation…
Historical Thinking Matters
2005-01-01
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…
The Object of History: Teaching American History Through Artifacts
2005-10-01
The strength of history museums lies in their collections, their objects. But students and teachers often lack the skills to make sense of historical objects, to analyze them closely and tease out…
Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives
2005-10-01
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…
Foundations of U.S. History: Virginia History as U.S. History
2005-10-01
Teaching American History grant partnership project between Loudoun County Public Schools and George Mason University, providing K-12 U.S. History teachers with year-long professional development…
SmartFox: the Scholar’s Browser for Digital Collections
2005-10-01
SmartFox, a set of tools incorporated into popular, open, and free web software, will address these major problems by creating a web browser that is “smarter” in two key ways. First, one tool will…
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
2005-10-24
A pilot version of the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, to collect and preserve digital evidence of the devastating Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005—Katrina, Rita, and Wilma.
Virginia 400
2006-01-01
To mark the 400th anniversary of the English settlement of Jamestown, CHNM has created Virginia 400, a portal for finding, teaching, and learning about Virginia History on the web. Pulling from the…
Probing the Past: Virginia and Maryland Probate Inventories
2006-01-01
Probing the Past provides a searchable version of information contained in the transcriptions of all 325 probate inventories. Users may browse by time period or city/county, or search the database to…
Making the History of 1989: Sources and Narratives of the Fall of Communism
2006-04-01
The goal of Making the History of 1989 is to make visible to teachers and students the events of 1989 and the processes by which historians turn those events into sometimes conflicting narratives,…
Hurricane Digital Memory Bank
2006-06-01
The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) seeks, first, to collect and preserve digital evidence of the devastating Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005—Katrina, Rita, and Wilma. The purpose of the grant is…
Conflict and Consensus: Key Moments in U.S. History
2006-07-01
Conflict and Consensus: Key Moments in U.S. History is a Montgomery County Public Schools Teaching American History project designed in partnership with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New…
Firefox Scholar 2.0: Building the Next Generation Scholarly Research Tool
2006-11-01
Although we are excited about our progress on Firefox Scholar 1.0, it was only intended as a pilot—one that would not work with all the major research collections and one focused on libraries in the…
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
2006-12-01
Grant proposes to continue the work started at by Theodore Crackel and his team at East Stroudsburg State University in 1994. The purpose and goal is to make available some 50,000 War Department…
Children and Youth in History
2007-05-01
Children and Youth in History addresses the critical absence of children and youth in U.S., European, and world history courses.
Bracero History Archive - Collaborative Documentation in the Internet Age
2007-06-01
The Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States, ended more than four decades ago. Current debates about immigration policy—including discussions about a new…
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
2007-07-01
Continues work on the Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 project. Grant proposal requests 3 additional years of funding to further the migration of files and data to the CHNM campus and completion…
Teachinghistory.org
2007-10-01
Teachinghistory.org, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, was designed to help K–12 history teachers access resources and materials to improve U.S. history education in the classroom.
Omeka - A Free, Open-source, Standards-Based, Easy-to-Use Web Publishing Platform to Bring History and Heritage Museums into the Era of Web 2.0
2007-10-01
Omeka is a next-generation web publishing platform for smaller history museums, historical societies, and historic sites. Omeka will do for this constituency what blog software has done for ordinary…
Exposing and Sharing the Hidden Archive: Advancing Scholarship and Academic Collaboration
2008-01-01
The Internet Archive and the Zotero Project propose a collaborative project to build a structured archival and access environment for the aggregated materials of thousands of scholars. The project…
Martha Washington: A Life
2008-01-01
The Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University proposes to create an online exhibit that uses the contours and major events in Martha Washington’s life to introduce visitors to…
Scholarship in the Age of Abundance: Enhancing Historical Research with Text-Mining and Analysis Tools
2008-06-01
This project gathers information about how digital resources are being currently used, seeks to make them easier to use in more sophisticated ways, and exemplifies some promising approaches to text…
Omeka Mobile for Art Museums
2008-10-01
A white paper investigating mobile technology usage in gallery spaces and makes recommendations for art museums on how best to use these new applications to engage visitors with visual art objects
Omeka for Art History and Art Museums
2008-10-01
To build a set of plugins for Omeka to meet the particular demands of art historians and art museum staff: CDWA-lite migration tool; Cooliris slide show integration tool; and image annotation tool
For Virginians: Government Matters
2008-10-01
For Virginians: Government Matters is a free online teaching and learning resource highlighting active citizen involvement, the impact of state and local government on daily life, and how individuals…
Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Exhibit Website
2009-04-01
An exhibit website for The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (ERP) offering a dynamic introduction to Roosevelt’s many public roles.
Virginia Studies: Thinking Historically About Virginia
2009-05-01
Virginia Studies: Thinking Historically about Virginia is an engaging, self-paced course for Virginia Studies teachers. The course is taught online through a series of interactive modules. Each module…
One Week, One Tool: Practical Lessons from a Digital Humanities Barn Raising
2009-07-01
The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has come to the conclusion that effective digital tools for scholars are forged mostly in practice rather than theory. There is no…
Omeka Commons: Preserving and Sharing Our Dispersed Digital Commonwealth
2009-12-01
Large collecting institutions and their foundation backers have made good progress in recent years digitizing and making collections available online. Private corporations such as Thompson and Google…
Using  Zotero  and  TAPoR  on  the  Old  Bailey  Proceedings:  Data  Mining  with  Criminal  Intent 
2010-01-01
The With Criminal Intent project will create an intellectual exemplar for the role of data mining in an important historical discipline–the history of crime–and illustrate how the tools of digital…
Digital Methods Training at Scale: Leveraging THATCamp Through a Regional System
2010-04-01
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…
Zotero Everywhere: Browser- and Machine-Independent Support for the Research Community
2010-06-08
Through initiatives such as optional fee-based cloud storage through the recently formed Corporation for Digital Scholarship, a non-profit established to underwrite Zotero’s continuing
costs, the…
Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool
2010-07-01
Proposal to create an open source transcription tool to enable researchers to access handwritten historical documents.
To be used with Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and a few other test…
Papers of the War Department 1784-1800
2010-07-01
Grant proposal for additional funds in support of the Papers of the War Department, 1874-1800 project. Indicates that in 2007, the project shifted emphasis toward the immediate availability of…
ScholarPress: Open Source Digital Tools for Teaching and Research
2010-09-01
ScholarPress is a suite of tools that will enable humanities scholars far more control of how they teach and present their research. We will develop three tools: Courseware, Researcher, and Vitaware.…
Unveiling History: Exploring America's Past
2010-09-01
Unveiling History: Exploring America’s Past is a Teaching American History grant that provides professional development opportunities for elementary, middle-, and high-school teachers. Teachers who…
Everyday Americans, Exceptional Americans
2010-09-10
Everyday Americans, Exceptional Americans is a Loudoun County Public Schools Teaching American History project designed in partnership with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at…
The PressForward Initiative: Creating New Modes and New Platforms for Scholarship Beyond Traditional Forms
2011-06-01
Grant document proposes the PressForward Initiative (PFI) to explore the best means for aggregating, curating, and crediting scholarship that is currently decentralized across the web or does not fit…
Crowdsourcing Documentary Transcription: an Open Source Tool
2011-07-01
Proposal to create an open source transcription tool to enable researchers to access handwritten historical documents. To be used with Papers of the War Department, 1784-1800 and a few other test…
September 11 Digital Archive: Saving America's Treasures
2011-10-01
In the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, the staff at the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the American Social History Project (ASHP) at the City University…
Connecticut History
2011-10-01
Connecticut History is a project of Connecticut Humanities in partnership with CHNM and Connecticut Explored. The website is designed to serve as a home for stories about the people, traditions,…
Sustaining Digital Humanities Training Through THATCamp
2012-04-01
The THATCamp program has offered low-cost digital methods training to hundreds of humanities scholars. Largely as a result of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s 2010-2012 investment of $260,000,…
Histories of the National Mall
2012-04-01
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…
Sea of Liberty
2012-06-01
Inspired by the Monticello exhibition, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty, the interactive website Sea of Liberty invites you to: explore documents, letters, artwork, and photographs related to the ideas…