Clio Wired (eBook)

Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007) was professor of history and founder of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Author of several books, including The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (with David Thelen), and director of digital history projects, such as History Matters: The U.S. Survey Course on the Web and the September 11th Digital Archive, he received the Richard W. Lyman Award (presented 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."

Introduction: Roy Rosenzweig: Scholarship as Community, by Anthony GraftonNote to Readers, by Deborah KaplanRethinking History in New Media1. Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past2. Web of Lies? Historical Knowledge on the Internet, with Daniel J. Cohen3. Wikipedia: Can History Be Open Source?Practicing History in New Media: Teaching, Researching, Presenting, Collecting4. Historians and Hypertext: Is It More Than Hype?, with Steve Brier5. Rewiring the History and Social Studies Classroom: Needs, Frameworks, Dangers, Proposals, with Randy Bass6. The Riches of Hypertext for Scholarly Journals7. Should Historical Scholarship Be Free?8. Collecting History OnlineSurveying History in New Media9. Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web, with Michael O'Malley10. Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet11. The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History WebAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex