The latest edition of Digital Campus (#16) is up and available for your listening pleasure. In this edition, Dan, Tom, and I discuss the merits of and opportunities posed by the new “digital book readers” like Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader. We also take on the issue of Facebook’s latest entry into the world of…
Tag: Academic Commons
Jobs in Digital History
During this year’s job search season it has been gratifying to see some advertisements specifying digital history experience. There were tenure-track jobs at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (public history), the University of South Carolina (public history), California State-San Marcos (digital humanities) and at the University of Western Ontario (Canadian/US history) that explicitly stated a…
Remembering Roy
George Mason University and the Center for History and New Media will host a celebration of Roy Rosenzweig’s life on December 9 at the GMU Law School in Arlington, Virginia. If you are able to attend, please do. If not, please go to the website we’ve created and leave your own memories of Roy.
Spend Two Weeks With Us Next Summer
I’m pleased to announce that my former colleague Matt Romaniello and I will be co-hosting an NEH Summer Seminar for high school teachers here at George Mason University during the last two weeks of July 2008. The seminar–Making Sense of 1989–is designed for high school teachers who want to deepen their understanding of the momentous…