As Steve Brier, Josh Brown, and Mike O’Malley pointed out in Episode 2 of History Conversations, CHNM’s late founder, Roy Rosenzweig firmly believed that it wasn’t enough for the historian interested in popular memory simply to be an analyst of popular historymaking. He or she also had to be an active practitioner of public […]
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Omeka for All
February 20th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: Digital Humanities · Museums · Omeka · Public History · Roy
Celebration of Roy
November 8th, 2007 · No Comments
Readers of Found History and friends of CHNM will want to know that a celebration of Roy Rosenzweig’s life will be held at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia on December 9, 2007. Please see the attached invitation for details. Directions to Mason’s Arlington campus can be found online. Additional information, along […]
Tags: Food & Drink · Friends · Memory · Roy
A Matter of Trust
October 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I originally posted this at thanksroy.org, the digital memory bank we set up in Roy’s honor. I’m cross posting it here because I think it speaks to what makes a good public historian and what made Roy the very best.
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Of all the amazing qualities Roy possessed — intelligence, generosity, creativity, industry, wit, and so many […]
Tags: Collecting · Memory · Public History · Roy
Roy
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
My good friend and colleague, Roy Rosenzweig, passed away last week of cancer. Roy was the most generous, most creative, hardest working person I have ever known. He was the inspiration for this website and most everything else I have done over the past five years. I am so grateful to have […]
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