Providing free access to primary sources, building high-quality online teaching modules, and offering instruction on critical thinking skills.
Developing publications and applications to define digital humanities for a new generation of scholars, librarians and museum professionals.
Bringing history to audiences worldwide by collecting digital records, archiving documents of the past, and presenting historical exhibits.
Explore the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe through essays, primary sources, and case studies.
December 11, 2008
CHNM has received a $50,000 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration (MATC) for Omeka, a software project that greatly simplifies the online publication of collections and exhibits. The award was given at the Coalition for Networked Information meeting Dec. 8 in Washington, D.C.
MATC awards recognize not-for-profit organizations that are making substantial contributions of their own resources [...]
Digital history is an approach to examining and representing the past that takes advantage of new communication technologies such as computers and the Web. It draws on essential features of the digital realm, such as databases, hypertextualization, and networks, to create and share historical knowledge.
Digital history complements other forms of history—indeed, it draws its strength and methodological rigor from this age-old form of human understanding while using the latest technology.
