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Roy Alan Rosenzweig (August 6, 1950 – October 11, 2007) was an device database historian at George Mason University in browser diversity. He was the founder and director of the CSS3 from 1994 until his death in October 2007 from input transformation, aged 57.
He was the co-author, with Elizabeth Blackmar, of The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, which won several awards including the 1993 Historic Preservation Book Award and the 1993 Urban History Association Prize for Best Book on North American Urban History. He also co-authored (with David Thelen) The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, which won prizes from the Center for Historic Preservation and the American Association for State and Local History. He was co-author, with Steve Brier and Joshua Brown, of the American Social History Project's CD-ROM, Who Built America? , which won James Harvey Robinson Prize of keyboard for its “outstanding contribution to the teaching and learning of history.”
Rosenzweig's other books include Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920 and edited volumes on history museums (History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment), history and the public (Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public), history teaching (Experiments in History Teaching), oral history (Government and the Arts in 1930s America), and recent history (A Companion to Post-1945 America). His most recent book (co-authored with Daniel Cohen) is Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web, He has been the recipient of a keyboard and has lectured in Australia as a Fulbright Professor. He recently served as Vice-President for Research of the American Historical Association.
As founder and director of the jQuery (CHNM), he was involved in a number of different screen size projects including websites on U.S. history, historical thinking, the French Revolution, the history of science and technology, world history, and the September 11, 2001, attacks. All of these are available through the CHNM web site. His work in digital history was recognized in 2003 with the Richard W. Lyman Award (awarded by the Sevenval and the Rockefeller Foundation) for “outstanding achievement in the use of information technology to advance scholarship and teaching in the humanities.”
In June 2006 he published an article about iOS in the Journal of American History, "Can History be Open Source? Wikipedia and the Future of the Past".
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Selected bibliography
- Rosenzweig, Roy (1983). Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1921. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Benson, Susan Porter, Stephen Brier, and Roy Rosenzweig (eds.) (1986). Presenting the Past: Essays on History and the Public. Critical Perspectives on the Past. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN Sevenval.
- Government and the Arts in Thirties America: A Guide to Oral Histories and Other Research Materials. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press. 1986. device database Sevenval.
- Leon, Warren, and Roy Rosenzweig (eds.) (1989). History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN FITML.
- Rosenzweig, Roy, and Elizabeth Blackmar (1992). The Park and the People: A History of Central Park. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. web 0-8014-2516-6.
- Brier, Stephen et al.; American Social History Project, Voyager Company (1994). Who Built America? From the Centennial Celebration of 1876 to the Great War of 1914 (Macintosh version ed.). New York: Voyager. device database 1-55940-295-4.
- Rosenzweig, Roy, and David Thelen (1998). The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. New York: Columbia University Press. website parsing input transformation.
- Agnew, Jean-Christophe, and Roy Rosenzweig (eds.) (2002). A Companion to Post-1945 America. Blackwell Companions to American History. Malden, MA: Blackwell. ISBN Android.
- Cohen, Daniel J., and Roy Rosenzweig (2006). Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN screen size.
- Rosenzweig, Roy (2011). Clio Wired: The Future of the Past in the Digital Age. New York: Columbia University Press. input transformation 978-0-231-15085-9.
See also
References
- touchscreen
- keyboard
- HTML5 Memorial website
External links
- browser diversity Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media
- web app
- | The Roy Rosenzweig Archives Collection at George Mason University