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Rosenzweig, Roy Alan was born on August 6, 1950 in New York City. Son of Maxwell and Mae (Blatt) Rosenzweig.
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In the first comprehensive study of American working-class recreation, Professor Rosenzweig takes us to the saloons, the ethnic and church picnics, the parks and playgrounds, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where industrial workers spent their leisure hours. Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, he describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent. Explaining what these pastimes and amusements tell us about the nature of working-class culture and class relations in this era, he demonstrates that in order fully to understand the working class experience it is necessary to explore the realm of leisure. For what workers did in the corner saloon, the neighbourhood park, the fraternal lodge hall, the amusement park, and the nickelodeon had a good deal of bearing on what happened inside the factories, the union halls, and the voting booths of America's industrial communities.
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This "exemplary social history" (Kirkus Reviews) is the first full-scale account of Central Park ever published. Elizabeth Blackmar and Roy Rosenzweig tell the story of Central Park's people―the merchants and landowners who launched the project; the immigrant and African-American residents who were displaced by the park; the politicians, gentlemen, and artists who disputed its design and operation; the German gardeners, Irish laborers, and Yankee engineers who built it; and the generations of New Yorkers for whom Central Park was their only backyard. In tracing the park's history, Blackmar and Rosenzweig give us the history of New York, and bring to life larger issues about the meaning of the word "public" in a democratic society.
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web provides for the first time a plainspoken and thorough introduction to the web for historians—teachers and students, archivists and museum curators, professors as well as amateur enthusiasts—who wish to produce online historical work or to build upon and improve the projects they have already started in this important new medium. The book takes the reader step by step through planning a project, understanding the technologies involved and how to choose the appropriate ones, designing a site that is both easy to use and scholarly, digitizing materials in a way that makes them web-friendly while preserving their historical integrity, and reaching and responding to an intended audience effectively. It also explores the repercussions of copyright law and fair use for scholars in a digital age and examines more cutting-edge web techniques involving interactivity, such as sites that use the medium to solicit and collect historical artifacts. Finally, the book provides basic guidance for ensuring that the digital history the reader creates will not disappear in a few years. Throughout, Digital History maintains a realistic sense of the advantages and disadvantages of putting historical documents, interpretations, and discussions online. The authors write in a tone that makes Digital History accessible to those with little knowledge of computers, while including a host of details that more technically savvy readers will find helpful. And although the book focuses particularly on historians, those working in related fields in the humanities and social sciences will also find this to be a useful introduction. Digital History builds upon more than a decade of experience and expertise in creating pioneering and award-winning work by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
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Rosenzweig, Roy Alan was born on August 6, 1950 in New York City. Son of Maxwell and Mae (Blatt) Rosenzweig.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1971; postgraduate, Cambridge (England) University, 1971-1973; Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1978.
Assistant professor of history, Worcester (Massachusetts) Polytechnic Institute, 1978-1980; Mellon fellow, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1980-1981; assistant professor, George Mason U., Fairfax, Virginia, 1981-1985; associate professor of history, director oral history program, George Mason U., Fairfax, Virginia, 1985-1992; professor of history, George Mason U., Fairfax, Virginia, since 1992; director Center for History and New Media, George Mason U., Fairfax, since 1995. Board directors American Social History project, New York City, since 1984. Member editorial board Radical History Review, New York City, since 1973.
( Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic ...)
(In the first comprehensive study of American working-clas...)
( This "exemplary social history" (Kirkus Reviews) is the...)
(Noticeable wear to cover and pages. May have some marking...)
Member Organization American Historians, American History Association, Oral History Association.
Married Deborah E. Kaplan, August 9, 1981.