In 2009, George Mason University and the American Historical Association will offer the first Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History. This award was developed by friends and colleagues of Roy Rosenzweig (1950–2007), Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University, to honor his life and work as…
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eBooks Again
It’s hard to believe, but Tom, Dan, and I have revisited the world of eBooks on Digital Campus. The biggest part of our discussion was on the merits or lack thereof of the new Kindle reader about to debut from Amazon. Of course, we have to speak speculatively, because none of the three of us…
Pirates on YouTube
In what I hope will be my last post on my hoax course (because the criticisms from certain quarters have become repetitive), I want to pass along a link to a YouTube video about our course produced by Jerry Griffith, a local videographer and spouse of one of our grad students here at Mason. The…
I Hate It When This Happens
Okay, so maybe I was wrong about the good folks at Texas A&M. Maybe I can convince the powers that be here at Mason that we need to implement the A&M reward system retroactive to last semester. If so, the result of my student evaluations for Lying About the Past would almost certainly pay for…