I took part in a very interesting meeting here at Mason the other day. After many years of a pretty hands-off approach to distance or at least distributed education, it seems we have decided to move into this market in a more coordinated way. By “more coordinated” I mean that rather than reactively supporting to…
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What History Majors Can Do
Over the years lots of people–many of them my students–have asked me what one can do with a major in history. There are the obvious answers, of course, like teach in the schools, work in public history, go to law school, etc. Early this semester I had the good fortune to be interviewed by a…
My First Mentor
I am a Habsburg historian today because of something that happened on my first day as an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia back in the mid-1970s. Like many students brand new to higher education, I had no idea what courses I ought to choose for that first semester of college and UVa offered…
Roy Rosenzweig Award
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…