Roy Rosenzweig
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Notable works | Eight Hours for What We Will (1983) |
Roy Alan Rosenzweig (August 6, 1950 – October 11, 2007) was an American historian. He was the founder and director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University from 1994 until his death in October 2007 from lung cancer, aged 57.[1] After his death, the center was renamed the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media in his honor.
Early life and education
Roy Alan Rosenzweig was born on August 6, 1950, in
Career
Rosenzweig was 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 won prizes from the University of Mary Washington Center for Historic Preservation and the American Association for State and Local History. He was co-author, with Steve Brier and Joshua Brown, of the American Social History Project's 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.”
Rosenzweig's other books include Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1920 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). His most recent book (co-authored with Daniel Cohen) is Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web, He has been the recipient of a
As founder and director of the
In June 2006 he published an article about
Selected bibliography
- Rosenzweig, Roy (1983). Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1921. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
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- Leon, Warren, and Roy Rosenzweig (eds.) (1989). History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-06064-4.)
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- Brier, Stephen; American Social History Project; Voyager Company; et al. (1994). Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914 (Macintosh version ed.). New York: Voyager. ISBN 1-55940-295-4.
- Rosenzweig, Roy, and David Thelen (1998). The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-11148-7.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Agnew, Jean-Christophe, and Roy Rosenzweig (eds.) (2002). A Companion to Post-1945 America. Blackwell Companions to American History. Malden, MA: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-22325-8.)
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has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Cohen, Daniel J., and Roy Rosenzweig (2006). Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1923-4.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - Rosenzweig, Roy. (2006) “Can History Be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past.” Journal of American History 117–146
- Rosenzweig, Roy (2011). Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-15085-9.
References
- ^ Bernstein, Adam (13 October 2007). "Digital Historian Roy A. Rosenzweig". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
- ^ "Obituaries". Columbia College Today. February 2008. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
External links
- Coalition for Networked Information: Spring 2006 task force meeting.
- Washington Post obituary
- thanksroy.org Memorial website
- Many of Roy Rosenzweig's essays Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
- Roy Rosenzweig at the Worcester Writers' Project Archived 2018-05-01 at the Wayback Machine
- The Roy Rosenzweig Archives Collection at George Mason University
- Appearances on C-SPAN