Week-long Workshops in Digital History
In the summers of 2005-2007 the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University held week-long workshops on the theory and practice of digital history. Participants explored how digital technologies facilitate the research, teaching, writing and presentation of history. Topics included defining genres of online history, designing a website, creating a site infrastructure, digitizing documents, identifying and building audiences for online history, and addressing issues of copyright and preservation. Participants left with a deeper understanding of both the technical and methodological issues raised by the practice of digital history. The workshops were co-sponsored by the American Historical Association and the National History Center, based in Washington, DC.
The workshops were held at George Mason University's Fairfax campus, conveniently located in metropolitan Washington, DC. With support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, there was no registration fee, and a limited number of scholarships were available to defray the costs of travel and lodging for graduate students and young scholars.
Our first three workshops, Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Historians of Science, Technology, and Industry, were held in June 2005, June 2006, and October 2006. The final workshop was held 12-15 July 2007 in Washington, DC.
Workshops for Public Historians
Echo offered three short workshops in Washington, DC; New York, New York; and Chicago, Illinois. The workshops, tailored to the needs of public historians, covered digital history. Our first two workshops, Doing Digital History: An Introduction for Public Historians, were held 26-28 October 2005 in Washington and 20-22 October 2006 in Chicago. The final workshop was held on 17 January 2008 at the Humanities and Social Sciences Branch of the New York Public Library.