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B.A.,
magna cum laude, Columbia College, N.Y., 1971.
Research
student in history on Kellet Fellowship, St. JohnÕs College of Cambridge Univ.
(England), 1971-73.
Ph.D.,
History, Harvard Univ., 1978.
Mark
and Barbara Fried Professor of History & New Media; College of Arts and
Sciences Distinguished Professor of History; Director of Center for History and
New Media, George Mason Univ., 1981 to present (Asst. Prof., 1981-85; Assoc.
Prof., 1985-92; Prof. 1992-98).
Mellon
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan Univ., 1980 to 1981.
Assistant
Professor of History and Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 1978 to
1980.
James
Harvey Robinson Prize of American Historical Association for Òoutstanding
contribution to the teaching and learning of historyÓ for History Matters, Jan. 2005.
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
Award for Excellence in the Humanities, December 2004.
Forrest G. Pogue Award for Excellence in Oral
History, March 2004.
Richard
W. Lyman Award (presented by the National Humanities Center and the Rockefeller
Foundation) for Òoutstanding achievement in the use of information technology
to advance scholarship and teaching in the humanities,Ó 2003.
Vice-President, Research Div., American Historical
Association, 2003-5.
State
of Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award, 1999.
ÒEdsitementÓ
selection by NEH for ÒHistory MattersÓ Web site.
Historic
Preservation Book Prize for Best Book of 1998 from Center for Historic Preservation,
Mary Washington College and Award of Merit from American Association for State
and Local History for The Presence of the Past.
James
Harvey Robinson Prize of American Historical Association for Òoutstanding
contribution to the teaching and learning of historyÓ and finalist, Interactive
Media Festival Award for Who Built America? CD-ROM.
Urban
History Association Prize for Best Book in North American Urban History; Abel
Wolman Prize for Best Book in Public Works History; Abbott Cumming Lowell Prize
for Best Book of 1992 from Vernacular Architecture Forum; Historic Preservation
Book Prize for Best Book of 1992 from Center for Historic Preservation; New
York Historical Association Award for Best Manuscript on New York History, 1991
(for The Park and the People.)
Fulbright
Commission, Senior Scholar, Australia, June-July, 1990.
John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1989-90.
Forrest
G. Pogue Award for Excellence in Oral History, November, 1987.
Albert
J. Beveridge Research Grant from the AHA, 1987.
NEH
Research Grant for ÒCentral Park: A Social History,Ó 1986 to 1988.
Distinguished
Faculty Award, GMU, 1986.
American
Association for State and Local History Research Grant, 1985.
NEH
Fellowship for College Teachers, 1984 to 1985.
Research
Grant from NEH for Oral History of Government-Sponsored Arts Projects, 1983 to
1985.
Mellon
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan Univ., 1980 to
1981.
Books,
CD-ROMs, Films
Digital
History: A Guide to Presenting, Preserving, or Gathering the Past on the Web (U. of Penn.
Press, 2005), co-author with D. Cohen.
History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History
Online (Bedford, 2004), co-author
and editor with Alan Gevinson and Kelly Schrum.
A
Companion to Post-1945 America (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), co-editor with J-C Agnew.
The
Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1998), co-author
with D. Thelen.
Liberty,
Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (Penn State University Press, 2001), co-producer
of interactive CD-ROM and of website (http://chmn.gmu.edu/revolution).
Who
Built America? Working People
& the NationÕs Economy, Politics, Culture & Society (New York: Worth Publishers, 2000), co-author of
Volume two of this two-volume text and supervising editor of both volumes.
Who
Built America? From the Great War of 1914 to the Dawn of the Atomic Age in 1946, a multi-media CD-ROM (New York: Worth Publishers,
2000), lead author and executive producer.
Who
Built America? From the Centennial of 1876 to the Great War of 1914, a multi-media CD-ROM (New York: Voyager, 1993),
co-author with S. Brier and J. Brown (vis. ed.)
The
Park and the People: A History of Central Park (Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1992), co-author with
E. Blackmar.
History
Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment (Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1989), co-edited
with W. Leon.
Presenting
the Past: Essays on History and the Public (Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 1986), co-edited with S.P. Benson
and S. Brier.
Eight
Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ.
Press, 1983).
Government
and the Arts in Thirties America: A Guide to Oral Histories and Other Research
Materials (Fairfax: George Mason
Univ. Press, 1986), chief editor.
Water
and the Dream of the Engineers
(Boston: Cine Research Associates, 1983), co-writer and researcher for this
eighty-minute historical documentary film, which was produced by R. Broadman
and J. Grady.
Mission
Hill and the Miracle of Boston (Boston:
Cine Research Associates, 1979), co-producer of this sixty-minute historical
documentary film with R. Broadman, J. Grady, and J. Pennington.
Experiments
in History Teaching (Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Harvard-Danforth Center, 1977), co-edited with S. Botein, W.
Leon, M. Novak, and G.B. Warden.
Articles
"No Computer Left Behind," Chronicle
of Higher Education,
February 24, 2006, co-author with D. Cohen.
ÒWeb of lies? Historical knowledge on the
Internet,Ó First Monday, 10
(December 2005), co-author with D. Cohen.
"Digital Archives Are a Gift of
Wisdom to Be Used Wisely," Chronicle of Higher Education, June 24, 2005.
ÒScarcity or Abundance: Preserving the Past in a Digital
Era,Ó American Historical Review
(June 2003).
ÒThe
Road to Xanadu: Public And Private Pathways on The History Web,Ó Journal of
American History (September 2001).
ÒRewiring the History and Social Studies Classroom:
Needs, Frameworks, Dangers, and Proposals,Ó (co-author with Randy Bass), in Journal
of Education (2000) and Computing
in the Social Sciences and Humanities,
ed. by Vernon Burton.
ÒThe Riches of Hypertext
for Scholarly Journals,Ó Chronicle of Higher Education, March 17, 2000.
ÒCrashing the System: Hypertext and American
Studies Scholarship,Ó American Quarterly (June 1999), author of
introductory essay and guest editor of special section in journal and Web site:
http://chnm.gmu.edu/aq.
ÒLive Free or Die? Death, Life, Survival, and
Sobriety on the Information Superhighway,Ó American Quarterly 51(March 1999): 160-74.
ÒWizards,
Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet,Ó American
Historical Review 103 (December
1998): 1530-52.
ÒAmerican
Memories: What a National Survey Tells Us About How Americans Use the Past,Ó The
Long View 4 (Spring
1998):87-100.
ÒBrave
New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web,Ó Journal
of American History (June 1997),
132-155, co-author with M. OÕMalley.
ÒHistorians
and the Web: A Guide,Ó AHA Perspectives (Jan. 1996), 11-16, co-author with M. OÕMalley and A. McMichael.
ÒThe
Best of Times, The Worst of Times,Ó Journal of Social History 29 (1995), 99-108.
ÒNew
Media, Old PoliticsÓ History Microcomputer Review (Fall 1995), 53-58, co-author with S. Brier and J.
Brown.
ÒSo,
WhatÕs Next for Clio?Ó CD-ROM and Historians,Ó Journal of American History (March 1995), 1621-1640.
ÒHistorians and Hypertext: Is it More Than Hype?Ó AHA
Perspectives (March 1994), 3-6,
co-author with S. Brier. [Another version published in Lawrence Dowler, ed.,
Gateways to Knowledge (MIT Press,
1997).]
ÒWhy
Read a History Book on a Computer? Putting Who Built America? on CD-ROM,Ó History Microcomputer Review, 9 (Fall 1993), 9-14, co-author with S. Brier.
ÒDigitizing
the Past: A History Book on CD-ROM,Ó Information Services and Use, 13 (1993), 35-40.
ÒGovernment
and the Arts: Voices from the New Deal Era,Ó Journal of American History (Sept. 1990), 596-608, co-author with B. Melosh.
ÒRadical
History Review und linke amerikanische Historiker,Ó Gesichtswerkstatt (Aug. 1989), 15-24.
ÒAmerican
Labor History: A Conspiracy of Silence?Ó Monthly Labor Review, 110 (Aug. 1987), 51-53.
ÒThe
Battle of the Parks,Ó Seaport: New YorkÕs History Magazine, 21 (Summer 1987), 36-43, co-author with E.
Blackmar.
ÒFrom
Rum Shop to Rialto: Workers and Movies,Ó in The Private Side of American
History, ed. by Thomas B. Frazier
(Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987), 107-136.
ÒMarketing
the Past: American Heritage and Popular History in the United States,
1954-1984,Ó in Presenting the Past (Philadelphia:
1986). A condensed version of this essay is in Radical History Review, 32 (1985), 7-29. A translated version appears in movimento
operaio e socialista, 9 (May-Sept.
1986), 213-34.
ÒÔPeopleÕs
HistoryÕ in den Vereinigten Staaten,Ó in Geschicte entdecken [History Discovered], ed. by Hans Heer and Volker
Ullrich (Rowohlt, 1985), 46-57.
ÒUna
Cultura Alternativa: Il Saloon Della Classe Operaia in America Alla Fine Del
XIX SecoloÓ Movimento operaio e socialista 7 (April 1985), 127-142.
ÒAutomating
Your Oral History Program: A Guide to Data Base Management on a Microcomputer,Ó
International Journal of Oral History, 5 (Nov. 1984).
ÒUnited
Action Means Victory: Militant Americanism on Film,Ó Labor History, 24 (Spring 1983), 274-288.
ÒWorking-Class
Struggles in the Great Depression: The Film Record,Ó Film Library Quarterly, 13, no. 1 (1980), 5-14.
ÒMiddle-Class
Parks and Working-Class Play: The Struggle over Recreational Space in Worcester,
Massachusetts, 1870-1910,Ó Radical History Review, no. 21 (Fall 1979), 31-46. Other versions of this
essay appear in The New England Working Class, ed. by H. Gutman and D. Bell (Univ. of Illinois
Press, 1987) and Life and Labor: Dimensions of American Working-Class
History, ed. by R. Asher and C.
Stephenson (State Univ. of New York Press, 1986).
ÒÔSocialism
in Our TimeÕ: The Socialist Party and the Unemployed, 1929-1935,Ó Labor
History, 20 (Fall 1979), 485-509.
ÒThe
Lower Middle Class in a Divided Society: Boston Masons, 1900-1935,Ó Journal
of Voluntary Action Research, 6
(July-Oct. 1977), 119-26.
ÒOrganizing
the Unemployed: The Early Years of the Great Depression, 1929-1933,Ó Radical
America, 10 (July-Aug. 1976),
37-60. Reprinted in WorkersÕ Struggles, Past and Present, ed. by J. Green (Temple Univ. Press, 1983),
168-89.
ÒRadicals
and the Jobless: The Musteites and the Unemployed Leagues, 1929-1936,Ó Labor
History, 16 (Winter 1975), 52-77.
Editorial
Co-Editor,
ÒCritical Perspectives on the Past,Ó a book series at Temple Univ. Press, 1985
to present (more than 30 volumes published).
Editorial
Advisory Board, American Quarterly,
2000 to 2003.
Managing Editorial Board, American Quarterly, 1987 to 1990.
Co-Editor,
ÒTeaching and TextsÓ section of Journal of American History, 1990-95.
Advisory
Board, America: History and Life,
1996 to present.
Editor,
ÒNewsnotes,Ó Labor History,
1979 to 1987.
Co-Editor,
Federal One, a newsletter on
1930s America, 1981 to 1990.
Editorial
Board, Radical History Review,
1977 to 2000.
Editorial
Board, American Communist History,
2002 to present.
Editorial
Board, George Mason Univ. Press, 1985 to 1990.
Public
History and New Media
Member, ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for
the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2004-2005.
Steering
Committee, Coalition for Networked Information, 2004-2006.
Selection Committee, Richard W. Lyman Award for
Humanities and Technology, 2004-6.
Co-organizer and Executive Producer of September
11th Digital Archive (http://911digitalarchive.org), funded
by the Sloan Foundation.
Executive Producer, Hurricane Digital Memory
Bank, funded by Sloan Foundation.
Executive
Producer, Women in World History,
funded by NEH.
Co-organizer and Executive Producer of World
History Matters—website for
teachers of World History (http://chnm.gmu.edu/whm).
Co-organizer
and Executive Producer of History Matters— website (http://historymatters.gmu.edu) on teaching U.S.
History survey on Web, funded by Kellogg Foundation.
Executive
producer and project director of ECHO: Exploring and Collecting History
Online—Science, Technology, and
Industry website,
http://chnm.gmu.edu/echo.
Co-executive
producer, The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum Life and Culture (http://www.ashp.cuny.edu/LM/).
Co-organizer and leader, ÒNew Media ClassroomÓ
seminar for high school and college teachers, Summers 1996, 1997.
Web Review Editor, Journal of American History, 2000 to present.
Editorial
Board, History Computer Review,
1996 to 2003.
Editorial
Board, Journal of Multimedia History, 1997 to 2003.
Guest Editor, Special Section on Hypertext and
American Studies, American Quarterly, 1998-99.
Contributing Editor, CD-ROMs, Journal of
American History, 1996 to 2000.
Advisory
Board, Crossroads: American Studies On-Line Project, 1995 to 2002.
Co-founder
and Member of Steering Committee, Committee on Historymaking in America
Member,
Interdisciplinary Taskforce, Common Agenda for Museums project, sponsored by
AASLH, NEH, and the Smithsonian Institution.
Consultant
for the following documentary films and radio series: History of the Deaf
Community; Savage Acts, Up South, Heaven Protect the Working Girl, The Grand Starvation Army ; Paul Cadmus: Enfant Terrible at 80; Down the Project; ÒSteinway Piano Workers Film; Radio Series on
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Consultant
for the following museums and exhibits: New Introductory Exhibit and ÒOn TimeÓ
at National Museum of American History; ÒBefore Central Park: The Life and
Death of Seneca VillageÓ at NYHS; ÒHistory Through Deaf Eyes;Ó National Museum
of American Art (Ashcan School); National Museum of American Jewish History,
Chinatown History Museum, Worcester Historical Museum, National Museum of
American History (Smithsonian Institution), Long Island Historical Society,
American Museum of the Moving Image, Rhode Island Historical Society, Uncle
SamÕs Company Town.
Consultant,
Community History Projects: Queens (New York) Community History Project,
LaGuardia Community College, 1980 to 1983; Waterbury (Connecticut) History
Project, 1983 to 1986; FreedmanÕs Legacy Project, Arlington, Virginia, 1984 to
1985.
Board
of Directors, American Social History Productions, 1984 to present.
Board
of Directors, Cine Research Associates, 1978 to 1990.
Organizer
and Coordinator, Northern Virginia Oral History Project, 1982-95.
Co-Director,
Oral History of New Deal Arts Projects, funded by NEH, 1983-86
Academic
Advisory Board, Teacher Training Institute, sponsored by Old Sturbridge Village
and NEH, 1984 to 1987.
Other
Professional Activity
Organization
of American Historians (Executive
Board; Ad-hoc Committee on the Annual Meeting; Nominating Committee; Program
Committee; Program Committee Co-Chair; Chair, Technology Committee); American
Studies Association (National Council, Nominating Committee, Chair, Rourke
Prize Committee, Electronic Projects Committee). American Historical
Association (Vice-President for
Research; Membership Committee); Oral History Assoc. (Membership Committee,
Technology Committee); OHMAR (Executive Board; Program Committee Co-chair);
National Capital Labor History Society (Academic Advisory Board)
Steering
Committee, National History Center
National Advisory Board for the Society for History
Education
NEH:
Panelist, Archives and Libraries, Museum, Media, Special Projects, and Travel
to Collections programs; Reviewer: interpretive research, libraries, media,
museum, and research materials programs.
Library
of Congress: Panelist, Ameritech Grants Program.
National
Science Foundation: Panelist, Science and Technology Studies, Information
Technology Research.
Tenure and Promotion Review for numerous
universities, including Columbia, Stanford, Yale, Univ. of Texas, Univ. of
Michigan, New York Univ., Univ. of Mass., Univ. of Delaware, Catholic Univ.,
Colgate, American Univ., Univ. of Maryland, Cornell Univ., Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), Hunter
College (CUNY), Graduate Center
(CUNY), John Jay (CUNY), City College (CUNY) Tulane Univ., Univ. of
Chicago, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz; Brown Univ., SUNY at Old Westbury;
Univ., of Sydney, Johns Hopkins Univ., Indiana Univ., Univ. of Rochester,
Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Rutgers Univ., Swarthmore College, Univ. of
California, San Diego, Amherst College, Harvard Univ., Trinity College, Univ.
of Hartford, Ohio State, George Washington Univ., Univ. of Southern California,
Univ. of Miami, University of Canterbury, University of Michigan, Michigan
State University, Catholic University, University of Virginia.