National
Park Service: http://www.nps.gov/history/
ClioMedia:
http://www.albany.edu/history/histmedia/index.html
For close to a decade, ClioMedia
has worked to broaden the margins of academic
discourse -- to make historical thinking and
historical reasoning a larger part of American
life by bringing history to the airwaves,
to television, and to the Internet.
We have pursued projects that integrate substantive
scholarship with various media forms meant
to stimulate, entertain, and enlighten -- to
catalyze research in areas of scholarship
hitherto underrepresented in our profession:
scholarship sensitive to the ear and eye,
to the aural and visual dimensions of our
past. Our endeavors have brought together
an intellectually rigorous group of historians
interested in various media techniques with
specialized media experts—both working to
develop a comprehensive multimedia program
closely linked to the University at Albany's
Department of History and its thematic and
geographic academic concentrations.
Our work is oganized around six program areas
which encompass our current and new nitiatives.
1] On-line Publications
and Journals. We were pioneers in multimedia
on-line publishing, initiating The Journal
for MultiMedia History (http://www.albany.edu/jmmh)
back in 1998. the JMMH will soon be moving
to Michigan State University and come under
the management of MATRIX; we will maintain
editorial links to the reinvigorated journal.
2] Aural History. This project
area includes broadcast, Internet, and CD/DVD
aural history projects. Talking History: Aural
History Productions (http://www.talkinghistory.org),
created in 1996, is our flagship. It is both
a weekly broadcast/internet radio program
and an online archive of aural histories available
via Real Audio as streaming audio files.
3] Research, Documentation,
and Preservation Projects: This encompasses
community and regional history projects, digital
media preservation and conversion projects,
and on-line virtual museums and WWW installations
(we've completed one: "Writing History/Writing
Fiction" and we're currently working
on three: "The Glovers of Fulton County,
New York, "The General Electric Corporation:
A Digital History," and "Life and
Labor in a Corporate Community: The History
of the Endicott Johnson Corporation").
4] Community Outreach and
Public Programs. These activities include
community workshops, public presentations,
and multimedia historical performances. Many
of our projects have laid the foundation for
long-term partnerships with community groups
to promote the study and dissemination of
community and local history—utilizing visual
and audio media as well as the World Wide
Web. In addition, we have worked with local
historical societies, museums, and archives,
assisting them in digitizing and preserving
archival media resources.
5] Pedagogy and Course Development.
This program area encompasses: the development
of extensive WWW, video, audio, and CD-ROM
resources for teaching (such as a CD-ROM on
the construction of the Erie Canal); designing
innovative model courses in history and media
for both higher education and secondary schools;
developing teaching guides to our on-line
resources; and sponsoring teacher workshops,
forums, and conferences on the effective utilization
of media in history teaching.
6] Video History. These activities
encompass production of on-line digital video
history projects and video documentary progams
for local cable access and public television
stations.
