Roy Rosenzweig

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Roy Alan Rosenzweig (born August 6, 1950 in New York ; † October 11, 2007 in Arlington County ) was an American historian and is considered one of the pioneers of "digital history". From 1994 until his death he directed the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, which he founded .

Life

Rosenzweig studied history at Columbia University in New York and completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1971 with the grade " magna cum laude ". He then received a scholarship and went to England to Cambridge University , where he studied at St John's College from 1971 to 1973 . He then returned to the United States and received his doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1978 . From 1978 he taught as Assistant Professor of History and Humanities at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute and from 1980 to 1981 he was a Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow at Wesleyan University . From 1981 he taught at George Mason University in Washington , since 1992 as a full professor.

In 1994 Rosenzweig founded the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University . As its director, he initiated a number of online history projects, primarily aimed at high school and college students, and websites on US history, the French Revolution, and the history of science and technology. His most important project was a digital archive on the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 . The collection contains 150,000 files, e-mails, digital voice mails, Blackberry communications and video clips. In an essay on Scarcity or Abundance , he advocated archiving digital data as a source of future historical research.

Rosenzweig's books, including a treatise on New York's Central Park and the labor movement's struggle for shorter working hours, underscore his interest in the "perspectives of ordinary men and women."

In June 2006, he published an article on Wikipedia in the Journal of American History entitled “ Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past ". This text can be considered to be the most important scientific statement on the project to date.

Rosenzweig was considered to be one of the most important proponents of Open Access in historical studies. He died of lung cancer at the age of 57.

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  1. ↑ Scarcity or Abundance , online at chnm.gmu.edu, viewed June 26, 2009, (English)
  2. ↑ Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past , online at chnm.gmu.edu, last accessed April 6, 2014.
  3. ^ So Peter Suber http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2007/10/roy-rosenzweig-1950-2007.html

Selected Works

  • Eight hours for what we will: workers and leisure in an industrial city, 1870–1920 , Cambridge [u. a.] 1983, ISBN 0-521-23916-8 (reprinted Cambridge [et al.] 1994, ISBN 0-521-31397-X , table of contents via the Library of Congress ).
  • (with Elizabeth Blackmar): The Park and the People: A History of Central Park , Ithaca, NY 1992, ISBN 0-8014-2516-6 .
  • (with Steve Brier and Josh Brown): Who built America: from the centennial celebration of 1876 to the great war 1914 , St. Monica 1993, ISBN 1-559-40295-4 .
  • (together with David Thelen): The presence of the past: popular uses of history in American life , New York 1998, ISBN 0-231-11148-7 .
  • (together with Daniel J. Cohen): Digital history: a guide to gathering, preserving, and presenting the past on the Web , Philadelphia, Pa. 2006, ISBN 0-8122-1923-6 ( H-Net Review by Brad Eden, online edition from the Center for History and New Media server ).

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SURNAME Rosenzweig, Roy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rosenzweig, Roy Alan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 2007
Place of death Arlington County