Congratulations to Envisioning Seneca Village on being selected as the 2025 winner of the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History! Envisioning Seneca Village is a project depicting what this significant nineteenth-century village might have looked like in the spring of 1855, about two years before it was destroyed by the City of […]

I first learned of Seneca Village in 2020. That summer, people tired of having to explain why Black Lives Matter and with an online audience freshly enraged at racism turned to history to popularize further examples of how Black people in the United States had been systematically dispossessed and disempowered by the forces of White […]

American Religious Ecologies seeks to understand how congregations from different religious traditions related to one another by creating new datasets, maps, and visualizations for the history of American religion. After years of photographing, editing, cataloging, and uploading schedules to the American Religious Ecologies website, we are excited to announce that we have uploaded the last […]

This past summer I had the opportunity to work on RRCHNM’s sustainability team. Our work focused on flattening websites built with content management systems (CMS), such as Drupal, Omeka, and WordPress. Flattening refers to the process of simplifying dynamic, database-backed websites to static versions built with only HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This minimizes server space […]

Funded through the American Historical Association as part of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program, the teaching guides will support history educators in teaching a more comprehensive and complete history of American independence. RRCHNM is proud to announce new grant funding to create two teaching guides for teachers on the history of […]

When the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media runs a job search for a project manager, it’s pretty common to get applicants who have an undergraduate or master’s degree in history. We’re always happy to get applicants who also have museum experience or familiarity with Omeka. It’s a lot more unusual to get […]

From March 19th to March 21st, 2025, the German Historical Institute (GHI) in Washington, DC hosted the Seventh Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History. The conference theme, real-time history, drew on Roy Rosenzweig’s call to action that historians need to directly address the methodological potential and risks of the digital age. Designed as a […]

Over the past three decades, RRCHNM has received many awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). We’ve used a truly tiny portion of the federal budget to have a huge impact on individuals and communities. Students in public schools use our teaching resources. Visitors to public history sites learn more from our websites. […]

Many RRCHNM-ers will be featured in sessions coming up this week at the American Historical Associations Annual Meeting. To connect with RRHCNM and learn more about our current projects, here is a list of those sessions. Saturday, January 4 Digitizing Black History at HBCU’s: A Collaborative Public History Approach Bowery (Sheraton New York, Lower Level), […]

We are pleased to announce a generous end-of-year donation from our friends and colleagues at Digital Scholar. Their gift of $100,000 will be split equally between the Director’s Innovation Fund, where it will allow us to experiment with new approaches to the study of history, and to the RRCHNM Endowment, which sustains our ongoing operations.  […]

Over its thirty years, graduate students in history have been a critical part of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. Graduate students don’t just take classes and work on faculty projects. They create innovative scholarship that fulfills RRCHNM’s mission of creating history in new media. Most recently, history graduate students at George […]

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce the launch of the Denig Manuscript Project, created in collaboration with the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library. The Denig Manuscript Project brings an eighteenth-century, Pennsylvania-made manuscript and watercolors to life through a collaborative multimedia digital project. High-resolution digital images, updated translations, forensic […]

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) is excited to announce that R2 Studios has received a $10,000 grant from the Dr. Scholl Foundation to advance the studio’s mission to democratize access to history through podcasting.  Founded in 2021, R2 Studios strives to tell unexpected stories based on the latest research to […]

Recently, the Religious Ecologies Project produced an introductory video that gives a brief history of the United States Census of Religious Bodies, an overview of this project, and the goals we hope to gain from digitizing these census schedules. Many who frequent our site may be curious about why since a great deal of this […]

On October 11, 2024, the Connecting Threads project launched its website and celebrated the conclusion of the first phase of the project with a public symposium at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Connecting Threads is a collaborative digital history project dedicated to amplifying the contributions of Indian weavers and African Caribbean consumers to […]

Funded by the Library of Congress, these four teaching guides will support new prospective teachers teaching post-1970s U.S. history and civics and will be available on Teachinghistory.org. RRCHNM is proud to announce the launch of four new resources for pre-service teachers on post-1970s history in the United States. The guides were made possible with generous […]

250 years after her birth, Jane Austen remains a giant in the cultural zeitgeist. Her works have been adapted hundreds of times over multiple mediums, and she remains one of the most popular writers in the English language. Yet little is known about Jane Austen the person. Her sister Cassandra burned her letters, leaving just […]

For over 35 years, the annual Digital Humanities Conference, organized by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), has been a premier gathering for scholars, researchers, practitioners, and professionals from around the globe. This event is a vital platform for fostering dialogue, sharing knowledge, and advancing digital research and teaching across various disciplines.  This year, […]

Amanda Madden of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), in collaboration with Carrie Beneš of New College of Florida, Laura Ingallinella of the University of Toronto, and independent scholar Laura Morreale, has been awarded a second major grant as part of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Scholarly Editions and Translations […]

Deepthi Murali and Jason Heppler of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) has received a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Digital Humanities Advancement Grant (Level II) of $138, 256 in support of the ongoing global textile history project Connecting Threads: Digitally Connecting Collections, Expanding Public Engagement.  Connecting Threads is a […]