Shae Corey made a zine about the American Religious Ecologies project, focusing on the congregations of Washington, DC.

A Religious Ecologies zine | Lincoln Mullen

Shae Corey, a graduate student on the American Religious Ecologies project, created a zine introducing the project's work on identifying congregations in Washington, DC, along with a guide to making an...

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My colleague Sam Lebovic writes about Socialist leader Eugene Debs' arrest and sentencing to prison for criticizing WWI to introduce his new four-part teaching guide on free speech in America, offering close readings of primary sources, contextual essays, and classroom exercises.

Debs Invites Arrest

The 1918 prosecution of Eugene Debs under the Espionage Act—and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's later change of mind—is the first moment explored in a new, four-module teaching guide on the contested ...

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📣 New historical data visualization! "How Fast Was the Mail?" is an interactive map showing how long information took to travel across the US between 1882-1908: cblevins.github.io/mail-time/ +

How Fast Was the Mail?

Explore mail transit times via railway between major U.S. cities, 1882–1908.

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Applications are open for the 2026 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History, the signal prize in the field. Due May 15. www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History – AHA

This prize is awarded annually to honor and support work on a creative and freely available new media project, and in particular for work that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with...

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Paul Ford and Rich Ziade on why good software needs design and product thinking, not just functionality. Applies to DH projects too—we need to think beyond CRUD apps around a database.

Product Is More Than Prompts

The industry is focused on how AI is transforming engineers’ work. Where does that leave the product manager?

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I've benefitted a great deal over the years from Kieran Healy's guides to doing scholarship in plain text, so it's fun to see his discussion of laying out his Data Visualization book (a book I've taught before and will teach again.)

Using Quarto to Write a Book

I’ve spent the last couple of months revising my Data Visualization book for a second edition that, ideally, will appear some time in the next twelve months. As with the first edition, I’ve posted...

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Congratulations to my colleague Jessica Otis and her project team for winning the Renaissance Society of America's Digital Innovation Award for Death by Numbers, one of the data-driven social history projects at RRCHNM.

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Catch up on all the latest from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media! Covering project updates, graduate student success, and more, read and subscribe to RRCHNM News to stay up to date...

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In the most recent issue of the "Working on It" newsletter, I wrote about realizing I was behind on agentic coding, my rethought Data Analysis for History syllabus, and John Turner's Joseph Smith biography. Read and subscribe:

Behind, ahead | Lincoln Mullen

Issue 18 of the "Working on It" newsletter, about catching up on agentic AI tools, a rethought syllabus for Data Analysis for History, and John Turner's biography of Joseph Smith.

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Tom Schmidt isn’t on socials, and I rarely post—not great for coining a term, but we hope you’ll give the Equity Docket a try anyway! A historical way of evaluating what the Supreme Court does with most of its time now: More equity, less shadow, not so interim. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

A few months ago I realized my rare and valuable skill—writing code as a historian—was still valuable but no longer rare. Now I'm thinking about what it means when the technical barriers to digital history drop away.

Behind, ahead | Lincoln Mullen

A historian reflects on how agentic AI coding tools have changed the possibilities for digital history, making once-rare programming skills widely accessible, and argues that digital history should be...

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Another brilliant design, well executed, from Robin Rendle. My own tastes tend to the straightforward, not to say boring. But I love the whimsy of this one.

I absolutely adore the design of V. H. Belvadi's scholarly website. It's not a design I'd adopt for myself, but it's a wonderful idea, flawlessly executed.

Home • V.H. Belvadi

V.H. Belvadi’s personal website and blog

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This essay asks why RSS readers look like email clients, and argues that the borrowed interface creates a phantom sense of obligation.

The AHA/Roy Rosenzweig Prize went to Envisioning Seneca Village this year. RRCHNM's founder also wrote about Seneca Village, and Alexandra Miller dug into the Rosenzweig papers to trace the connections.

Lost in the Park: Roy Rosenzweig’s Public History Legacy – Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media

I first learned of Seneca Village in 2020. That summer, people tired of having to explain why Black Lives Matter and with an online audience freshly enraged at racism turned to history to popularize further...

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My colleague John Turner's biography of Joseph Smith is a riveting portrait of America's most successful religious entrepreneur—and he's paired it with thirty detailed podcast episodes. lincolnmullen.com/blog/john-tu...

John Turner's biography of Joseph Smith | Lincoln Mullen

My friend and colleague John Turner published his biography, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, this past summer with Yale University Press. (Why the delayed blog post? Because I…

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My colleague Stephen Robertson’s incredibly detailed and thoughtful digital monograph, Harlem in Disorder, has won the 2025 Ángel David Nieves Book Award for Best Monograph from American Studies Association. drstephenrobertson.com/news/awards-...

Awards for Harlem in Disorder

Grateful to the ASA, ASLH and CSKI for prizes awarded to Harlem in Disorder: 2025 Ángel David Nieves Book Award for Best Monograph, American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus (press rel…

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My colleague @jasonheppler.org talking with our partners at the Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library about the Denig illuminated manuscript project. www.youtube.com/watch?si=l3T...

From Pen to Pixels: Creating the Denig Manuscript Project

YouTube video by Omohundro Institute

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Some reflections on changing the approach on my syllabus for Data Analysis for History. lincolnmullen.com/blog/this-se...

Today #HistoryInFocus starts a bonus series we're calling "Historians On," hosted and produced by historian @davidtrowbridge.bsky.social. This first installment is "Historians on AI." @historians.org #historypodcast #ai

“Historians On”: AI in Teaching and Research – AHA

In This Episode Katharina Matro (Social Studies Teacher at Walter Johnson High School) Jeff McClurken (Professor of History and American Studies; Chief of Staff to the President, University of Mary Wa...

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At @rrchnm.bsky.social, we partnered with the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library to create a digital edition of a fascinating illuminated manuscript from eighteenth-century Pennsylvania. A beautiful website by @jasonheppler.org for a beautiful historical source. denigmanuscript.org

A graduate student at @rrchnm.bsky.social, Rachel Whyte, put together an introductory video about the Religious Bodies censuses conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and the work that we are doing to turn them into a dataset for scholarly and public use. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNgJ...

A Brief History of the Religious Bodies Census

YouTube video by Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM)

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Apparently there are people on Bluesky now?

Congratulations to Christopher Marsh, Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social, Andy Watts, and the team behind 100 Ballads (Digital Humanities Inst., 2023) for being awarded this year's Roy Rosenzweig Prize for creativity in digital history! Check out their work here: www.100ballads.org

100 Ballads

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American Historical Association@historians.org · 2y ago

The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2024 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2024 awardees! #AHAPerspectives 🗃️

We've got a great webinar coming up featuring a conversation among @xroadproj.bsky.social fellows about their projects.

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Registration is open for SPIRIT HOUSE sessions: Narrating African American Religion Monday, November 11, 2024 from 6:00-7:30pm ET Featuring: Matthew Cressler, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, and Chandra Plowden, and moderated by Mélena Laudig crossroads.princeton.edu/events/2024/...

The Connecting Threads team is launching their project website October 11 at the Victoria and Albert Museum! This event will explore the history and culture of Madras textiles in India and the Caribbean with a line up of speakers. Register to join in person or online: www.vam.ac.uk/event/YGVBDZ...

Connecting Threads: Fashioning Madras in India and the Caribbean - Conferences and study days at V&A South Kensington · V&A

Public symposium exploring Madras textile fashions in India and the Caribbean.

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Hosted by the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, there will be a "Religion and Antisemitism" online panel discussion on September 19 at 3pm ET, with Britt Tevis, Sarah Imhoff, John Turner and me. Please consider joining us! iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Religion & Antisemitism. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

“Religion &”: Center Conversations on the State of Religion and the Current Moment Religion & Antisemitism Panelists Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University, Bloomington Britt Tevis, University of Pen...

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I can't tell you how many digital documents I open on my phone which have a QR code and no URL and no hyperlink. How exactly am I supposed to scan the QR code when looking at it with my only device with a camera?

We had a full house for @rrchnm.bsky.social's first day of the academic year. Over fifty students, staff, and faculty are a part of RRCHNM.

2012 #THATCamp tote bag still going strong

It’s here! In paperback! Soon also online with other Debates in DH vols: dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/com... www.upress.umn.edu/978151791598... Can’t wait to revisit all the chapters from amazing colleagues. Thanks Lauren, David and Jessica for being wonderful editors during difficult times.