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…

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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...

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In 1809, North Carolina lawmakers tried to stop Jacob Henry from taking his seat in the state legislature because he was Jewish. Many Americans believed that Jews l…

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Before the American Revolution, Sephardic Jews like Aaron Lopez found economic opportunity and religious freedom in Newport, Rhode Island, but not full citizenship,…

Before the American Revolution, Sephardic Jews like Aaron Lopez found economic opportunity and religious freedom in Newport, Rhode Island, but not full citizenship,…

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…

"Render therefore to all their due: ... honor to whom honor."

What does it mean to study America's public Bible in historical newspapers?

Throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, newspapers in the United States—even newspapers which were not published by a religious denomination or organization—made frequent rec...

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…