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.
Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is a platform for publishing online collections and exhibitions.
April 28, 2009
On Wednesday, May 13th at 7:00 p.m., the Rosenzweig Forum on Technology and the Humanities and the Washington Semantic Web Group will host the a forum on Social Networking and the Semantic web in the George Mason University Johnson Center Cinema. The forum will host four speakers, Mills Davis, Andy Roth, Mike Petit, and Dan [...]
The National Endowment for the Humanities has recognized CHNM’s significance by awarding a rare Challenge Grant to provide matching funds for donations to build an endowment that will enable it to continue to innovate and serve this vast audience.
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.
