will be defending his dissertation at the end of the semester. Here is the formal announcement ..read more

The first time that I came across the name was in the textbook for a class titled simply, “Historiography.” The book discussed Rosenzweig’s 1983 book, Eight Hours for What We Will , as a key work in American labor history. Since is a history of workers in Worcester, Massachusetts, just thirty miles from where I grew up, I went to the library and checked out the book. As I read, I was captivated by how Rosenzweig had captured the lives and labors of working-class people. Sometime later I had my first encounter with the Center for History and New Media, which was not yet named after Roy Rosenzwe ..read more

—a PhD student in history at George Mason and a key contributor to many projects at RRCHNM—has successfully defended her dissertation. For a long time now I’ve been to use digital history methods to say something meaningful about the past, and not to stop with creating tools and databases. And that is just what Greta has done in a remarkable way. In her dissertation she has created a fantastic database tracking the social history of the family of George Mason IV and the people he enslaved. And she has created a compelling series of maps and network visualizations showing how both free and ensl ..read more

I am packing up all of the books in my office at to move to the other side of the wall. More on that next time. The Olive Branch and the Sword: The United States in the Mediterranean, 1800–1805 project. Our wonderful project team (a few of whom are pictured above) also projects at RRCHNM—successfully defended her dissertation on “Potomac Networks” last week. at the American Historical Association annual meeting. the dissertation is a masterclass in using digital methods for historical interpretation. Greta is off to Southern Methodist University as a postdoc ..read more

The Congregational Library and Archives has kindly invited me to talk about with them on April 19. The event is online and open to the public ..read more

from GMU’s PhD program in history: one off to be a postdoc, one off to work at the Center for Military History, two off to positions as assistant professors ..read more

The American Historical Association is for details about how to enter your work for consideration for the prize. The due date is May 15, 2023. RRCHNM will also that go towards funding the prize ..read more

This weekend I am giving a presentation about the future of digital scholarship in the field of American religion at the Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture . In the presentation I’ll be sharing a number of digital projects in American religion that I’ve learned a lot from. Since the proceedings of the conference will be published later, I won’t publish my remarks here now. But for the sake of conference participants who might want to follow along, here is a list of the projects I’ll mention without notes or comment. Singing Box 331: Re-sounding Eighteenth-Century Mohican Hymn ..read more

If you are a GMU student, faculty, or staff member, you can access library resources from off campus using a library proxy. Suppose you want to access this article: Rosenzweig, Roy. “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era.” 108, no. 3 (2003): 735–62. Following that DOI will take you to at the Oxford University Press website. This version is behind a paywall, however: we can’t see the full article. A paywalled version of the article ..read more

I often have small snippets of Markdown that I want to copy to the clipboard and then paste as HTML. I thought about writing an extension for Visual Studio Code, or a custom script for . But that seemed like a lot of work for a simple task. And then I remembered: Unix. pbpaste | pandoc | pbcopy There is a one-liner which will work on a Mac to paste Markdown into and then copy the resulting HTML back to the clipboard. Can’t get much simpler than that. If you want do go from HTML to Markdown, the one-liner is a little longer: pbpaste | pandoc -f html -t markdown | pbcopy ..read more