10 10 162 Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. I knew Roy was sick, and I suppose there’s a certain appropriateness—given how much of his life he lived on the Web--that I learned about his death from a friend’s email, but the news was still shocking, and brought me to a stop like no other I could have imagined. I would never claim to have been close to Roy, in the sense that I may not even have been one of those 1,542 electronic business cards Deborah mentioned in her remarks at Roy’s memorial celebration. But like many of you on this site, you never had a conversation with Roy without feeling close to him, and I think I can say this too: since I first met him while working on the Radical History Review more than 30 years ago, I never had a conversation with him when I didn’t feel better afterwards than I did before. It’s not only that he was the funniest academic I’ve ever known, or that he communicated such warmth so effortlessly. It’s that he, personally and professionally, embodied the idea that we historians, and particularly radical historians, had the right and obligation to hope: for a more just and decent profession, country, and world. Without Roy, many of us would have been far more tempted to make our careers into efforts to document just how bad things have been in the past, and how, very likely, they could even get worse. Roy’s book “Eight Hours for What We Will,” even though it charts a kind of declension in working-class leisure, opened a different kind of door for many of us: the idea that we could look at leisure and play as serious, even respectable areas of research. In my own case, I think I can say that without Roy, I could not even have considered, much less written, my first book, about the history of early baseball. When it was just a completed dissertation (and I was out of academia), and one of my advisors thought it might make a useful article someplace, and a couple of series editors had dismissed it—Roy ended up an anonymous reader for Cornell Press. Here’s what I wrote 20 years ago in the preface. Roy Rosenzweig's thorough Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 144 Title A name given to the resource A Tribute to Roy Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. Your submission of material constitutes your permission for, and consent to, its dissemination and use in connection with Thanks, Roy in all media in perpetuity. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Warren Goldstein Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Warren Goldstein Type The nature or genre of the resource detailed appreciatively critical reading of my manuscript remains the finest piece of criticism I have ever received on any written work. I still don't quite know how he does it. I hope that the final product meets the expectations of his comments." Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. I’ve learned so much from reading all the entries here, but it’s also reinforced what we all already knew—Roy was a unique, wonderful person who enriched the lives of many hundreds of people through friendship and personal contact, as well as hundreds of thousands of people through his work. I want to add in four ideas: 1. ROY WAS A LIFELONG FRIEND. Because so many of his friendships started with collaborative work projects, it would be easy to assume that his friendships required work relationships. But instead, Roy maintained close friendships with individuals he first met in elementary school, junior high, high school, college, his time in England, and elsewhere. I don’t know anyone else who remained connected to so many earlier parts of his or her life. When you became a friend with Roy, he became your friend for life. He was able to do this because of his tremendous energy, his generosity, and his sincere interest in other people, their experiences, and their ideas. 2. ROY KNEW HOW TO HAVE FUN. Yes, he worked long hours and may not have relaxed as much as most people, but he also knew how to have fun away from work. He loved movies and he was always interested in trying new experiences. During graduate school, when he was writing about working class leisure, a group of us decided to expand our leisure-time horizons and try out various modern recreational pursuits we hadn’t previously tried, or hadn’t done since childhood. We rode the largest wooden roller coaster in Massachusetts, played skee ball, went candlepin bowling, watched harness racing, attended professional wrestling matches, bet on jai alai, and more. Roy was open to a wide range of experience and got enjoyment from all of it, never looking down on any of it. 3. ROY TRIED TO SQUEEZE THE MOST OUT OF A DAY. As many people have written, Roy was well known for multi-tasking in order to accomplish more than the rest of us could in a given hour or day. When he was in graduate school, he tried a unique strategy in order to get more done. For a time when he was working on his dissertation, he had no teaching or other tasks that had to be done at a set time, so either consciously or unconsciously he began living on a 26-hour-a-day schedule. Every day he would work a couple of hours later and stay up a couple of hours later. On Monday, he might go to sleep at 1 and get up at 8. Then on Tuesday, he would go to sleep at 3 and get up at 10, and so on. Those of us in the apartment got used to seeing Roy eat breakfast at all hours of the day and night. 4. ROY WAS PART OF A STRONG PARTNERSHIP. Roy and Deborah made a great team. They complemented each other so well and brought out the best in each other. It was nice to watch them interact with each other. To those of us on the outside, they had a strong identity as a couple while giving each other room to have their individual interests and express their individual unique personalities. When visiting them, one would have three good experiences—one with Roy, one with Deborah, and one with the two of them together. Roy was a great person and a great friend. As so many other people have observed, he made a significant difference in my life. He taught me important skills and lessons, he helped me succeed professionally, he brought me joy, and he was always there to help when I needed him. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 85 Title A name given to the resource Four Thoughts about Roy Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Warren Leon Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Warren Leon Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Deborah friends graduate school Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Formal Notices Description An account of the resource Obituaries and paid death notices. Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. Digital Historian Roy A. Rosenzweig By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, October 13, 2007; Page B06 Roy A. Rosenzweig, 57, a social and cultural historian at George Mason University who became a prominent advocate for digital history, a field combining historical scholarship with digital media's broad reach and interactive possibilities, died Oct. 11 at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington County. He had lung cancer. Dr. Rosenzweig, who taught history at GMU for the past 26 years, founded the university's Center for History and New Media in 1994. As its director, he oversaw the creation of online history projects aimed mostly at high school and college students, including Web sites about U.S. history, the French Revolution and the history of science and technology. At GMU's Center for History and New Media, Roy A. Rosenzweig oversaw the creation of online history projects. At GMU's Center for History and New Media, Roy A. Rosenzweig oversaw the creation of online history projects. Perhaps its most visible project was the September 11 Digital Archive, a collection of 150,000 items -- including e-mails, digital voice mails, BlackBerry communications and video clips -- made by average citizens at the time of the 2001 terrorist attacks. The center gave the materials to the Library of Congress in September 2003. The center, part of GMU's Department of History and Art History, has more than 40 full- and part-time staff members. Dr. Rosenzweig was an author, filmmaker and documenter of oral histories. His books, including a social history of New York's Central Park and the labor movement's struggle in the 19th century for a shorter workday, underscored his interest in presenting what he called perspectives of ordinary men and women over the wealthy and powerful. In the early 1990s, he helped create an award-winning U.S. history survey presented on CD-ROM. He then started the Center for History and New Media, which stemmed from his wish to democratize the study of the past -- both by incorporating forgotten voices and by presenting the fullest possible story of the past to diverse audiences. Edward L. Ayers, president of the University of Richmond, who conducted early digital history projects as a University of Virginia history professor, said Dr. Rosenzweig was the real pioneer in this. Ayers said that Dr. Rosenzweig's CD-ROM Who Built America? (1994), created with the help of two other historians, first showed the possibilities of digital history and that he remained important as an advocate by writing articles and reviews of Web sites for professional journals, through which he was a facilitator and translator of digital history. Roy Alan Rosenzweig was born Aug. 6, 1950, in New York and was raised in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens. He graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1971. He received a fellowship to study history at St. John's College at Cambridge University and received a doctorate in history from Harvard University in 1978. He joined GMU's history faculty in 1981 and became a full professor in 1992. His best-known early book, Eight Hours for What We Will (1983), was about the labor movement's demand for an eight-hour workday and the subsequent rise in more urban leisure spaces such as public parks and movie theaters. Dr. Rosenzweig wrote often in journals for historians about what he once called the fragility of evidence in the digital era because of e-mail documentation that is too easily deleted. He was a former vice president for research at the American Historical Association and formerly chaired the Organization of American Historians technology committee. Among his honors was the 2003 Lyman Award presented by the National Humanities Center for innovative use of information technology in the humanities. It carried a purse of $25,000. His marriage to Beth Bernick Rosenzweig ended in divorce. Survivors include his wife of 26 years, Deborah Kaplan of Arlington; his mother, Mae Rosenzweig of Coconut Creek, Fla.; and a sister. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 73 Title A name given to the resource Washington Post Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. Your submission of material constitutes your permission for, and consent to, its dissemination and use in connection with Thanks, Roy in all media in perpetuity. If you have so indicated on the form, your material will be published on Thanks, Roy (with or without your name, depending on what you have indicated). Otherwise, your response will only be available to approved researchers using Thanks, Roy. The material you submit must have been created by you, wholly original, and shall not be copied from or based, in whole or in part, upon any other photographic, literary, or other material, except to the extent that such material is in the public domain. Further, submitted material must not violate any confidentiality, privacy, security or other laws. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource washington post Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource mike o'malley Type The nature or genre of the resource Document formal notices obituary WashingtonPost Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. For almost thirty years, every December I would arrive in Washington and spend two nights with Deborah and Roy. My own Debora had been Deborah Kaplan’s office partner at George Mason in 1977. (Debora Greger once put up a sign that identified the occupants as Ms. Reading and Ms. Spelling, leading one student to knock and ask, “Is Professor Spelling here?”) Sometimes we’d go out to dinner; sometimes we’d sit for a couple of hours around their dinner table, catching up. Absences are what we feel, fractions of life what we remember. This is what I remember: Back in the darkness of the Reagan administration, Deborah saying, “Well, there’s this guy . . .” The old Jackson Street house, before the renovation. Down the hall narrowed by bookcases lay the entrance to Roy’s cave, pieces of computer equipment piled one on another in geological strata, most of them interconnected in mysterious fashion. He was the only person I knew who had two computer screens. Roy explaining the secrets of PINE, when hardly a year before I had declared I would never use email. The mustache, grayer over the years. And larger? His shrug. His quiet laugh. His Blackberry. Roy thinking. Things Roy never said: This time I’m going to vote straight Republican. I’m really looking forward to that new Jane Austen film. Why don’t you pick up the check? Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 152 Title A name given to the resource For Almost Thirty Years . . . Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource William Logan Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource William Logan Type The nature or genre of the resource Document friend mustache austen computer Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 57 Title A name given to the resource Mr. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource ABE Torkelton Type The nature or genre of the resource Document Document A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text. Text Any textual data included in the document. I first met Roy at the OAH in St Louis in 1989 when I was a grad student. He was staffing the Radical History Review card table outside the main exhibition area selling subscriptions. I introduced myself and told him I had read his article on, from memory, the Toledo Auto-Lite strike. As I recall he offered advice on sources for my then project. Over the years since I have exchanged an email or two with Roy. I never thought of myself as in Roy's circle of friends, large as that was, but he responded to my emails with help and friendship. I was shocked to hear of his death since I had emailed him two weeks before and received a prompt reply and like so many others had no idea he was ill. My thoughts are with those who knew Roy well and who must be having a terrible hole in their lives with his passing. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 93 Title A name given to the resource Staffing a Card Table Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource You must be 13 years of age or older to submit material to us. 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We cannot return any material you submit to us so be sure to keep a copy. Thanks, Roy will not share your email address or any other information with commercial vendors. Description An account of the resource The GMU History Department faculty, mid 1980s: front row: Roy Rosenzweig, Marion Deshmukh (chair), Jack Censer; back row (2): Josephine Pacheco, Peter Henriques, Mian Saeed, Randolph Lytton, Martin Cohen; back row (3): John D'Amico, Jeffrey Stewart, Don Holsinger, John Soder, Richard Gleissner, from: GMU Yearbook 1987, SC&A, GMU Libraries Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Katja Hering Type The nature or genre of the resource Still Image George Mason University History Department