U.S. History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online

Kelly Schrum is Director of Educational Projects at the Center for History and New Media and Associate Research Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Schrum is co-director of the websites World History Sources, Women in World History, Making the History of 1989, and Children and Youth in World History, and is the author of Some Wore Bobby Sox: The Emergence of Teenage Girls’ Culture, 1920-1950. Other publications include History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online.

Alan Gevinson is the editor of Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 (University of California Press, 1997), associate editor of The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films, 1931-1940 (University of California Press, 1993), and author of Library of Congress Motion Pictures, Broadcasting, Recorded Sound: An Illustrated Guide (Library of Congress, 2002). He received a PhD in history from Johns Hopkins University and teaches history at George Mason University.

Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), founder of the Center for History and New Media, was the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History at George Mason University. He authored, co-authored, and edited numerous articles and books, including Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web, The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life, The Park and the People: A History of Central Park, and Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920. Rosenzweig served as Vice-President for Research of the American Historical Association and was awarded the Richard W. Lyman Award for "outstanding achievement in the use of information technology to advance scholarship and teaching in the humanities."