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HAPP Digital Archive Wins the 2013 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History

A project of the Woodrow Wilson Center’s History and Public Policy Program, “Digital Archive: International History Declassified,” has been selected as the winner of the 2013 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History. The Rosenzweig Prize is awarded annually in honor and support of work on an innovative and freely available new media project that reflects thoughtful, critical, and rigorous engagement with technology and the practice of history. The prize is jointly sponsored by the American Historical Association and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and will be presented during a ceremony at the Association’s 128th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, January 2-5, 2014.

The winner was selected by a prize review committee of AHA members including Daniel J. Cohen, Chair (Digital Public Library of America), Stephen M. Robertson (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media), Stephen Brier (Graduate Center, CUNY), Miriam Forman-Brunell (Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City), Kelly A. McCullough (German Historical Institute) and Michael H. O’Malley (George Mason Univ.)....

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