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…

I’m Tony Rosenzweig, Roy’s first cousin and I’m here representing family and on behalf of family I’d like to thank all the colleagues and friends who came to share their thoughts and memories. It’s wonderful –…

I first met Roy Rosenzweig at a 1999 conference sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation at Stanford University organized by David Kirsch and Timothy Lenoir about use of websites to capture recent history of science and technology. I believe the…

What follows is a speech I wrote for the special AHA session in Roy’s memory on January 5, abridged to avoid duplicating my other post on this site.

I worked with Roy at the Center for History and New Media for ten years, from 1995 to 2005,…

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…

For a Historian, Dying Young

in memory of Roy Rosenzweig, 1950-2007

By a pond, by a hospital, a bird,
feathers as starched and white
as nurses' uniforms used to be,

stalks a muddy bank in red high… 								

My name is Jean-Christophe Agnew, and I knew Roy for some thirty five years. If that sounds a bit like the introduction for someone in recovery from something, that’s pretty much how I feel at the moment. And you too, I’m sure. All of…

For many years Roy and I used to entertain each other with ideas for get-rich-quick books. We were sure that the popularity of When Bad things Happen to Good People would be easily topped by our sequel, “When Good Things Happen to Bad…

Welcome friends, family, colleagues. Thanks to all of you for being here today, and a very special thanks to the many people who worked so hard to put this event together, especially Amy Noecker of the College of Humanities and Social Science…