Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era

Scarcity or Abundance? Preserving the Past in a Digital Era Get access Roy Rosenzweig Roy Rosenzweig Roy Rosenzweig is College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History and director of the Center for History and New Media (http:// chnm.gmu.edu) at George Mason University. His books include The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life (1998), co-authored with David Thelen; The Park and the People: A History of Central Park (1992), co-authored with Elizabeth Blackmar; and Eight Hours for What We Will: Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870–1920 (1983). He is working on a book examining how new media and technology has changed—and might change—historical research and scholarship, teaching, museums, and archives, as well as popular historymaking. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 108, Issue 3, June 2003, Pages 735–762, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/108.3.735 Published: 01 June 2003