Roy Rosenzweig
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Roy Rosenzweig is an American historian (in boths senses) at George Mason University. He is founder and director of the Center on History & New Media (CHNM), which pursues digital history projects including the website, History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web, which won the American Historical Association’s Robinson Prize, as well as projects on the French Revolution, the history of science and technology, world history, historical thinking, digital tools, the September 11, 2001 attacks, and the 2005 hurricane season. He is also the co-author with Dan Cohen of History: A Guide to Gathering, Presenting, and Preserving the Past on the Web. His work in digital history was recognized in 2003 with the Richard W. Lyman Award (awarded by the National Humanities Center and the Rockefeller Foundation) for “outstanding achievement in the use of information technology to advance scholarship and teaching in the humanities.” More recently (June 2006) he wrote: Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past
Rosenzweig is also Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History & New Media at George Mason University. He is the co-author, with Elizabeth Blackmar, of The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, which won several awards including the 1993 Historic Preservation Book Award and the 1993 Urban History Association Prize for Best Book on North American Urban History. He also co-authored (with David Thelen) The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, which has won prizes from the Center for Historic Preservation and the American Association for State and Local History. He was co-author of the CD-ROM, Who Built America?, which won James Harvey Robinson Prize of American Historical Association for its “outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history.” His other books include Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 (Cambridge University Press) and edited volumes on history museums (History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment), history and the public (Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public), history teaching (Experiments in History Teaching), oral history (Government and the Arts in 1930s America), and recent history (A Companion to Post-1945 America). He has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and has lectured in Australia as a Fulbright Professor. Between 2003 and 2006, he was Vice-President for Research of the American Historical Association.
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[edit] Selected Bibliography
Rosenzweig, Roy (1983). Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920, Interdisciplinary perspectives on modern history. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 304. ISBN 0521239168.
Brier, Stephen (1986). Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public, Critical perspectives on the past. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 424. ISBN 0877224064.
(1986) Government and the Arts in Thirties America: A Guide to Oral Histories and Other Research Materials. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 329. ISBN 0802600026.
Rosenzweig, Roy (1989). History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 333. ISBN 0252060644.
Rosenzweig, Roy (1992). The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 623. ISBN 0801425166.
Brier, Steven; American Social History Project, Voyager Company (1994). Who Built America? from the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914, Macintosh version, New York, N.Y: Voyager, 1. ISBN 1559402954.
Rosenzweig, Roy (1998). The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. New York: Columbia University Press, 291. ISBN 0231111487.
Rosenzweig, Roy (2002). A Companion to Post-1945 America, Blackwell companions to American history. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 584. ISBN 0631223258.
Cohen, Daniel J (2006). Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 316. ISBN 9780812219234.
