Shae Corey, a graduate student on the American Religious Ecologies project, created a zine introducing the project's work on identifying congregations in Washington, DC, along with a guide to making an...

The 1918 prosecution of Eugene Debs under the Espionage Act—and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's later change of mind—is the first moment explored in a new, four-module teaching guide on the contested ...

Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882–1908.

This prize is awarded annually to honor and support work on a creative and freely available new media project, and in particular for work that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with...

The industry is focused on how AI is transforming engineers’ work. Where does that leave the product manager?

I’ve spent the last couple of months revising my Data Visualization book for a second edition that, ideally, will appear some time in the next twelve months. As with the first edition, I’ve posted...

Catch up on all the latest from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media! Covering project updates, graduate student success, and more, read and subscribe to RRCHNM News to stay up to date...

Issue 18 of the "Working on It" newsletter, about catching up on agentic AI tools, a rethought syllabus for Data Analysis for History, and John Turner's biography of Joseph Smith.

A historian reflects on how agentic AI coding tools have changed the possibilities for digital history, making once-rare programming skills widely accessible, and argues that digital history should be...

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V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog

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...

My friend and colleague John Turner published his biography, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, this past summer with Yale University Press. (Why the delayed blog post? Because I…

Grateful to the ASA, ASLH and CSKI for prizes awarded to Harlem in Disorder: 2025 Ángel David Nieves Book Award for Best Monograph, American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus (press rel…

YouTube video by Omohundro Institute

I’ve posted my syllabus for this semester’s iteration of Data Analysis for History. I’ve been teaching this course for over a decade. (Previous iterations: 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023.) T...

In This Episode Katharina Matro (Social Studies Teacher at Walter Johnson High School) Jeff McClurken (Professor of History and American Studies; Chief of Staff to the President, University of Mary Wa...

YouTube video by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM)

Public symposium exploring Madras textile fashions in India and the Caribbean.

“Religion &”: Center Conversations on the State of Religion and the Current Moment Religion & Antisemitism Panelists Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University, Bloomington Britt Tevis, University of Pen...

Department: Col of Humanities and Soc Science Classification: Post Doc 12 month Job Category: Research Faculty Job Type: Full-Time Work Schedule: Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk) Location: Fairfax, VA W...

Department: Col of Humanities and Soc Science Classification: Post Doc 12 month Job Category: Research Faculty Job Type: Full-Time Work Schedule: Full-time (1.0 FTE, 40 hrs/wk) Location: Fairfax, VA W...

Antisemitism has deep roots in American history. Yet in the United States, we often talk about it as if it were something new. We’re shocked when events happen like…

The AHA has issued a statement condemning the recent order from Oklahoma State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters requiring “all Oklahoma schools ... to incorporate the Bible, which inc...

‎Show Antisemitism, U.S.A.: A History, Ep Episode 1: No Sanction to Bigotry - Jul 10, 2024

Antisemitism has deep roots in American history. Yet in the United States, we often talk about it as if it were something new. We’re shocked when events happen like…

Antisemitism has deep roots in American history. Yet in the United States, we often talk about it as if it were something new. We’re shocked when events happen like…

Graduate students can connect with RRCHNM during their studies at George Mason University as Graduate Research Assistants (GRAs), Graduate Affiliates, or through Digital History Internships.

AI is just one small part of data centers’ soaring energy use.

"American Religion @ RRCHNM" is a newsletter that provides updates specific to the many projects about American Religion developed at RRCHNM.

Every ten years from 1906 to 1946, the United States Census Bureau surveyed religious congregations, synagogues, and other religious groups in a census similar to the population census. At the time, churches were considered a public good, similar to a public park or school. Through these religious censuses, the government could ensure counties had enough churches and what religions and spiritual sects were growing/prospering within the United States at any given time. Of the five religious censuses that the bureau conducted (1906-1946), only the schedules from the 1926 census still exist.