This directory is a free guide to history-focused digital projects for students, faculty, public history professionals, and anyone interested in learning about history through digital media.
It is designed to help connect researchers and learners with resources that can help them explore their interests, and to promote and share the wide range of digital projects in existence. This directory does not include all digital projects, but is vetted by the Digital Media Group for projects that are focused on the study or interpretation of historical subject matter, are open access, and are built with the intention of engaging a wide audience.
NCPH also intends for this to be a resource for those interested in developing their own digital projects by including information on costs, funding, labor, software, etc. for each entry.
The directory includes various filters to help you navigate to projects of interest and is keyword searchable.
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The Capra Bailey Project
The Capra Bailey Project introduces you to "Its a Wonderful Life" as historical immersion experience in both the American past and present. For the historically interested person, this website treats both the film and its…Subjects
United States, Popular Culture. 1917---
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Better Craftsmen, Not Gods: An Online Exhibit on the Editing of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
"Better Craftsmen, Not Gods" is a critical examination of the development of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." Written in dialogue between them, scholar Tyler Malone and digital archive editor Robert Eric Shoemaker track the development…Subjects
Literature, Modernism, Art, Editing
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Arthur P. Schmidt & Company: A Walking Tour of Old Boston
This virtual walking tour of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, leads visitors down the streets on which nineteenth-century music publisher Arthur P. Schmidt published the first repertory of serious art music in the United States. Schmidt was…Subjects
Music, History, Musicology, Publishing, Music Publishing
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Klezmer Archive Project
The Klezmer Archive (KA) project is creating a universally accessible digital archival tool for interaction, discovery, and research on available information about klezmer music and its network of contemporary and historical people. Taking individual melodies…Subjects
European History, Jewish History, Modern History
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“Through the Wisdom and Knowledge of Dr. Gross”: Stories from Black Life in Rhode Island
Embark on a digital history tour inspired by the Papers of Dr. Carl Russell Gross (1888-1971). Throughout his life, Providence-based physician Dr. Carl Russell Gross collected materials in service of a book that he was…Subjects
African American History, Twentieth Century History
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Waco History
Waco History is a joint venture by two programs at Baylor University, the Institute for Oral History and The Texas Collection , in Waco, Texas. The Institute for Oral History houses the work of Waco…Software Used
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Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWGK) animates the lives of Kentuckians between Lincoln's election in November of 1860 to the destruction of slavery in December 1865. Using the office of Kentucky's…Subjects
Civil War History; Kentucky History; African American History; Military history; Political History; Social history
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Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum Virtual Tour
The Schroeder Saddletree Factory Museum Virtual Tour highlights the last saddletree factory in America that dates back to the 19th century. Because it is the last of its kind, Historic Madison, Inc. has made it…Subjects
Industrial Heritage, Industry, American History, Indiana History
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Pathways Through American History
Pathways Through American History is a series of inquiry-driven, thematic guides to some of the diverse history and heritage on NPS.gov. Each Pathway highlights digital resources about historic people and places that are associated with…Subjects
Cultural Heritage, Public History, American History, Place-based Learning, American Democracy, Voting Rights, Civil Rights, Civics, Labor History, economic History, Cultural History, Art, Entertainment, National Parks, Historic Preservation, Cultural Resources, Historic Sites, Memorials, Monuments, Social History, Archaeology, Storytelling, Race and Ethnicity, LGBTQ+ History, Women’s History
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Mapping the Deerskin Trade in Colonial North Carolina, 1761-1771
In colonial North Carolina, the livelihood and survival of many people revolved around deer. As war concluded in 1761 with an uneasy peace, hunting and trade flourished, but competition over deer foreshadowed future conflict. Using…Subjects
Early America, Indigenous, Environmental
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