This course will explore the history of American music and music technology, focusing especially on digital technology as it developed after WWII. The course will alternate between the history of digital media and the history of American music, looking at where they merge. We will be considering the ...
Students in the MA in history program select an area of specialization in American history, European history, or world history. They choose from one of four concentrations.
Larrie D. Ferreiro FRHistS received his PhD in the History of Science and Technology from Imperial College London. He teaches history and engineering at George Mason University in Virginia, Georgetown University in Washington DC and the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He has served for...
This section of HIST 390: The Digital Past, is themed "Tech and the Tudors." If you only know one thing about Tudor England's King Henry VIII, it's probably that he went through six wives (and made England Protestant) in his quest for a son. Or, as the rhyme goes, "Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced....
This course, which satisfies the university’s IT requirement, prepares students to use and understand a wide variety of current and emerging digital technologies. The course teaches the fundamentals of information technology within the context of a history course rather than as a set of abstract prin...
This course, which satisfies the Mason Core IT requirement, prepares students to use and understand a wide variety of current and emerging digital technologies—everything from basic office software to more complex services such as databases and digital maps. It explores how technologies can augment t...
Dr. Jeremy R. Kinney is the Chair of the Aeronautics Department of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. His research and curatorial focus is aeronautics in the first half of the twentieth century, with a specific emphasis on interwar and World War II military aviation, air rac...
