This site was conceived as a project for a course entitled History and New Media at George Mason University. Doctoral students are required to take two sections of this course which focuses on the practices, techniques, and production of digital historical content. The classes prepare students not only to employ new technologies in the classroom, but also to generate their own new media projects that might be utilized in educational, public history, or less formal settings.
This project allowed me to combine several of my research interests in nineteenth century American cultural history. The interplay between race and technology in the latter half of the 1800s is an important but understudied topic in historical analyses. In using visual materials, I hope to uncover how certain racist ideologies were developed and enforced in a rapidly changing United States.
For further information about this project, please contact me at or visit and comment on my blog which you can find at historiarum.org.
I also spend time working as a research assistant at the Center for History and New Media on a number of projects, including the Mozilla Digital Memory Bank, the September 11 Digital Archive, and Digital Campus. For more about me, see here.
All of the images found on this site come from the Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.