Table of Contents

Introduction: Roy Rosenzweig: Scholarship as Community, by Anthony Grafton Note to Readers, by Deborah Kaplan Rethinking History in New Media 1. Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past 2. Web of Lies? Historical Knowledge on the Internet, with Daniel J. Cohen 3. Wikipedia: Can History Be Open Source? Practicing History in New Media: Teaching, Researching, Presenting, Collecting 4. Historians and Hypertext: Is It More Than Hype?, with Steve Brier 5. Rewiring the History and Social Studies Classroom: Needs, Frameworks, Dangers, Proposals, with Randy Bass 6. The Riches of Hypertext for Scholarly Journals 7. Should Historical Scholarship Be Free? 8. Collecting History Online Surveying History in New Media 9. Brave New World or Blind Alley? American History on the World Wide Web, with Michael O'Malley 10. Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers: Writing the History of the Internet 11. The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web Acknowledgments Notes Index

About the Author

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."

Reviews

For the archivist, these essays ask provocative questions and point to some interesting opportunities, both for repositories and users. -- Christine D'Arpa Archival Issues teachers esepcially should welcome this collection Journal of American History