Memory

Privatizing Holocaust History?

For the past few years, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has undertaken a series of public-private digitization partnerships, especially with a company called Footnote.com. These partnerships provide NARA with free

Briefly Noted for February 25, 2009

Along with "the perfect is the enemy of the good," "release early and often" is something of a mantra around CHNM, especially when it comes to software and web

Briefly Noted for December 19, 2008

Ahoy, Mateys! Mills Kelly's fall semester course "Lying about the Past" was revealed today in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Read how Mills and his students perpetrated an internet

Honest Abe

Philadelphia's Rosenbach Museum & Library explores our ongoing fascination with Abraham Lincoln with 21st Century Abe. Launching officially on Lincoln's bicentennial on February 12, 2009, the site will present

Briefly Noted for March 27, 2008

The D&D crowd at MIT pays tribute to the late Gary Gygax with a large 20-sided die in Killian Court. Cartridge Save, a British ink and toner retailer posts a surprisingly