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In 1964 the Mississippi Valley Historical Review, published by the Organization of American Historians, became The Journal of American History.

In 1979, the National Council on Public History was formed; its website is a great resource for information about doing and enjoying public history.

For Roy, they go back to his earliest work in new media done in collaboration with the American Social History Project (ASHP) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (and especially Steve Brier and Josh Brown) and the Voyager Company starting in 1990.

The birth of the Web and the first modern browser, Mosaic, in 1993, opened new means for sharing, networking, and collaborating in ways not previously possible.

2 Birkerts in “The Electronic Hive: Two Views,” Harper's Magazine, May 1994, 17Ð21, 24Ð25.

17 George P. Landow, Hypertext 2.0 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), 89, 2.

22 Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies; Roy Rosenzweig, “Crashing the System: Hypertext and American Studies Scholarship,” American Quarterly 51 (June 1999): 237Ð46.

18 Himmelfarb, “A Neo-Luddite Reflects on the Internet”; James William Brodman, “E-Publishing: Prospects, Promises, and Pitfalls,” Perspectives (February 2000), ↪link 0.18.

27 Roy Rosenzweig, “The Road to Xanadu: Public and Private Pathways on the History Web,” Journal of American History 88, September (2001): 548Ð79, ↪link 0.27a.

See also Barbara Quint, “Gale Group to Digitize Most 18th-Century English-Language Books, Doubles Info Trac Holdings,” Information Today (17 June 2002), ↪link 0.27c.

See also Roy Rosenzweig, “Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era,” American Historical Review 108 (June 2003): 735Ð62, ↪link 0.6b.

A 2004 study found that almost half of the Internet users in the United States have created online content by building websites, creating blogs, and posting and sharing files.

Not until January 2005 did the National Archives finally issue guidelines on the archiving of the millions of government web pages. “NARA Guidance on Managing Web Records, January 2005,” NARA, United States National Archives and Records Administration, ↪link 0.21b.

Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/.

The museum launched an online Memory Book in 2007 that asked visitors to share their stories, family photos, or traditions.

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White, Richard. “What Is Spatial History?” The Spatial History Project, February 1, 2010. http://web.stanford.edu/group/spatialhistory/cgi-bin/site/pub.php?id=29.

[x] Dan Cohen, “A Million Syllabi,” DanCohen.org, blog, March 31, 2011, https://dancohen.org/2011/03/30/a-million-syllabi/; Chad Williams, et al, #Charleston Syllabus: https://www.aaihs.org/resources/charlestonsyllabus/.

And in 2013, The Digital Public Library of America was launched online as a national digital library.

Featured image adapted from Steven Lubar, “Teaching Digital Public History,” January 2, 2014.

Denise Meringolo created Preserve the Baltimore Uprising to document the events of protest by those living and experiencing it in Baltimore following the death of Freddie Gray in 2015.

Gibbs, Frederick W. “New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations.” The American Historian, February 2016. http://tah.oah.org/february-2016/new-forms-of-history-critiquing-data-and-its-representations/.

Black Perspectives won the American Historical Association’s Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History in 2017.

She has directed dozens of digital projects and published an open access digital monograph, Stamping American Memory: Collectors, Citizens, and the Post (University of Michigan Press, 2018).