THE MANHATTAN PROJECT: AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY

(The Department of Energy is presently in the process of editing and reviewing this web site.  It will be published incrementally throughout 2003 and 2004.  Click here to view it in its present form.) 

During the academic year 2001-2002, as a Glenn T. Seaborg Fellow in Nuclear Energy, I created a web-based public history exhibit for the Department of Energy entitled The Manhattan Project: An Interactive History.  At the heart of this web site are 187 individual web pages describing specific "Events," "People," "Places," and aspects of "Science and Technology" relating to the early history of nuclear weapons.  Each of these web pages is accompanied by at least one, and usually several, illustrations; there are over 500 photographs, maps, and diagrams on the web site.  I do not believe there has ever been a historical web site of comparable magnitude, and the future possibilities for such projects are enormous, not only for public history, but for publishing in general.