Lincoln Mullen's blog

Over at his newsletter, Dan Cohen has a brief history of how Zotero came into existence.

Shadows and Solid Things: A History of Religion and Archaeology in the Modern World by Kris Zimmitti will be published this November.

Part of the fun of collaborating with other people—and perhaps especially with graduate students—is that they think of things you never would have.

The American Historical Association and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media jointly award the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History.

Paul Ford and Rich Ziade at the Aboard podcast have a good reminder that good software requires design—and thinking about it as a product—and not just functionality.

I’ve benefitted a great deal over the years from Kieran Healy’s guides to doing scholarship in plain text, so it’s fun to see his discussion of laying out his Data Visualization book (a book I’ve taught before and will teach again.)

Congratulations to my colleague Jessica Otis and her project team for winning the Renaissance Society of America’s Digital Innovation Award for Death by Numbers.

Welcome back to the (very) occasional newsletter.

Two months ago it dawned on me that I was behind.

Another brilliant design, well executed, from Robin Rendle.

I absolutely adore the design of V.

This essay on RSS readers asks “why do RSS readers look like email clients?”

One of the more enjoyable parts of leading RRCHNM is getting to chair the committee that selects the winner of the Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History.

You taught me language; and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse.

My friend and colleague John Turner published his biography, Joseph Smith: The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet, this past summer with Yale University Press.

My colleague Stephen Robertson’s incredibly detailed and thoughtful digital monograph, Harlem in Disorder, has won the 2025 Ángel David Nieves Book Award for Best Monograph from American Studies Association, as well as honorable mentions for prizes from t…

After more than a decade at Reclaim Hosting, I’ve moved this site to Cloudflare.

Always a pleasure to take a group of GMU PhD alumni out at the American Historical Association annual meeting.

I’ve posted my syllabus for this semester’s iteration of Data Analysis for History.

Computational Humanities Research is a new journal, edited by Lauren Tilton and Kristoffer Nielbo.

Welcome back to the (very) occasional newsletter Working on It.

My student Kris Stinson will be defending his dissertation at the end of the semester.

The first time that I came across the name Roy Rosenzweig was in the textbook for a class titled simply, “Historiography.”

I am grateful to have worked for Mills Kelly for the past four years as he has served as the executive director at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media.

According to the whiteboard outside our kitchen, there are fourteen days left of summer.

Greta Swain—a PhD student in history at George Mason and a key contributor to many projects at RRCHNM—has successfully defended her dissertation.

A new podcast—or rather, a longstanding podcast—has joined R2 Studios at RRCHNM.

News about four students from GMU’s PhD program in history: one off to be a postdoc, one off to work at the Center for Military History, two off to positions as assistant professors.

The May newsletter from RRCHNM contains news of a visualization about Victor Recording’s expeditions in Latin America, two graduate student successes, and a grant for American religious history.

We are grateful to acknowledge a second NEH grant in support of our American Religious Ecologies project.

If you care about the open web, you probably use RSS feeds.

The American Historical Association is accepting entries for the 2023 Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Creativity in Digital History.

The Congregational Library and Archives has kindly invited me to talk about America’s Public Bible: A Commentary with them on April 19.

The Guardian has a three-part series combining visualizations and prose to explain about Manchester’s rise as an industrial textile city and its connection to the slave trade: How Slavery Made Manchester the World’s First Industrial City Accounting for the

My colleagues Jason Heppler and Mills Kelly in the Washington Post today about their collaboration with two local public history sites in Northern Virginia.

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is launching a newsletter.

Greetings.

My colleague Jason Heppler writes about “Building A Data API For Historical Research.”

Ted Gioia has a good issue of his newsletter on academic publishing’s “death instinct”: In this case, the wounds are truly self-inflicted.

As Americans go to the polls to vote in today’s midterm Congressional elections, they will be able to watch results flow practically in real time.

A very helpful list of best practices for shell scripting.

Hi folks.

Sometime ago Kellen Funk and I used computational analysis to study how the Field Code created the category of civil procedure in American law, and how that New York code spread across jurisdictions in the nineteenth-century United States.

The most recent issue of the American Religion @ RRCHNM newsletter features an announcement of our Luce Foundation grant for a podcast on the history of American antisemitism, a new map of male and female preachers in the National Spiritual Alliance, and a

Caroline Greer writes about a National Spiritual Alliance church named after its pastor, Dorcas Brown, and maybe the biblical Dorcas too.

I often have small snippets of Markdown that I want to copy to the clipboard and then paste as HTML.

If you are a GMU student, faculty, or staff member, you can access library resources from off campus using a library proxy.

The start of the academic year at RRCHNM also means the return of many of our graduate students.

This weekend I am giving a presentation about the future of digital scholarship in the field of American religion at the Biennial Conference on Religion and American Culture.