Since 1994, the Center for History and New Media has used digital media and computer technology to democratize history—to incorporate multiple voices, reach diverse audiences, and encourage popular participation in presenting and preserving the past. CHNM combines cutting edge digital media with the latest and best historical scholarship to promote an inclusive and democratic understanding of the past as well as a broad historical literacy. CHNM's work has been recognized with major awards and grants from the American Historical Association, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Department of Education, the Library of Congress, and the Sloan, Hewlett, Rockefeller, Gould, Delmas, and Kellogg foundations. In 2005, CHNM’s websites had close to 1 million unique visitors and 5 million page views per month—making it one of the busiest non-commercial history education site on the entire World Wide Web.

Projects:

Rachel Pooley worked with the Center for History and New Media's Women in World History project. She evaluated source material for lesson plans in world history and did research to replace sources (scanned original documents or retrieved online). Rachel also wrote and edited lesson plans.

What Students Had to Say:

“I most enjoyed getting to see how CHNM works, even if I didn't get the detail, I got a good feeling for the organization, the people, and the kind of work they do."

"I liked most having the freedom to use my brain and re-think what information was being
presented and how."

Original Projects:

1) Women in World History (http://chnm.gmu.edu/wwh/): Developing content on Latin America, curriculum design and review.

2) Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (http://www.hurricanearchive.org/)
Digital archiving.

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