Resources
History Departments Around the World
Searchable database linking to roughly 1,200 history departments around the world. If a department has a web site, it’s here.
Essays on History & New Media
Essays devoted to the theoretical and practical aspects of taking history into a digital format, including comments on design and technical factors.
Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web
A book that provides a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians who wish to produce online work, or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started.
THATCamp
Short for "The Humanities and Technology Camp", THATCamp is a BarCamp-style, user-generated "unconference" on digital humanities. THATCamp is organized and hosted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Digital Campus, and THATPodcast.
DC Area Tech and Humanities Forum
Co-sponsored by the Center for History & New Media (CHNM) at GMU and the Center for New Designs in Learning & Scholarship (CNDLS) at Georgetown, the Washington DC Area Technology and Humanities Forum explores important issues in humanities computing and provide an opportunity for DC area scholars interested the uses of new technology in the humanities to meet and get acquainted.
Blogs
Blogs written by CHNM staff members.
Podcasts
Podcasts presented by CHNM staff members.
Episodes
CHNM's series of famous episodes in world history, including images, movie clips, and sound.
Sidelights
Amusing episodes from American history that make a serious point.
Tools Center
Browse a collaborative Wiki resource spanning any and all tools that might be applicable to the practice of online history.
Services
The Center for History and New Media provides a wide range of paid and unpaid services to historical and cultural practitioners and institutions. These services fall into four categories: consulting, web design, database development, and conference management. Please email or call Tom Scheinfeldt at 703-993-9277 to discuss service and pricing options.
Consulting: With support from the Alfred P. Sloan foundation, CHNM offers free consulting to institutions and individuals collecting the recent history of science, technology, and industry through the Web. CHNM makes a special effort to provide advice suited to your project's scope, focus, and budget. Services include help with strategic project planning, technology, website design, and outreach. In the past we have worked with the National Institutes of Health, NASA, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, and many individuals. Paid consulting contracts are also available to practitioners and institutions working outside the fields of history of science, technology, and industry.
Web design: CHNM provides contract web design services tailored to the needs of historians and cultural heritage institutions. CHNM brings nearly a decade of design experience to its web-design contracts. More important, it brings an intimate understanding of the challenges that historians and other humanists face in developing sound and engaging web content.
Database development: Most CHNM projects make use of databases; for example, the September 11 Digital Archives makes available more than 150,000 digital objects through a database system built at CHNM. Recognizing the increased demand for flexible and powerful web-database applications among historical and cultural institutions, CHNM offers database design and implementation services on a contract basis. Recent clients include the National Museum of American Jewish History, the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, and the Jewish Women's Archives.
Conference management: CHNM provides custom software solutions to allow association members to register, make payment, and upload proposals and papers for annual meetings and other scholarly gatherings.