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 NCPH staff and Membership Committee 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.
SUBMISSION INFORMATION
If you would like to create an entry for your project, please complete the online form here. (It takes about 10-15 mins. to complete the online form. We recommend that you first consult some of the existing entries so that you know what information is expected about your project.)
If you wish to update an existing entry, reach out to [email protected]
The HBCU Radio Preservation Project
The HBCU Radio Preservation Project acts with urgency to preserve non-commercial FM HBCU radio history through community outreach, field archiving, digitization, and audio-based storytelling. It aims to foster an ethos of care among HBCU libraries…Subjects
Black History, HBCUs, Radio, Preservation, Oral History, Mentorship
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Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project
Chesapeake Heartland is an African American humanities project dedicated to preserving, digitizing, interpreting, and making accessible thousands of materials related to African American history and culture on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Delmarva Peninsula and beyond.…Subjects
African Diaspora
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Coding The Past
This blog provides concise lessons on utilizing data science for historical and humanities research. It's tailored for researchers, students, and enthusiasts with a basic understanding of R and Python. The content aims to equip these…Subjects
Modern History, European History
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Circulating Now—From the Historical Collections of the National Library of Medicine
Circulating Now explores the rich collections of the National Library of Medicine, highlighting new acquisitions and curatorial projects of the Library and interviews and guest posts from researchers working in the collections. The National Library…Subjects
History of Medicine
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Urban Roots Podcast
Urban Roots is a podcast that tells little known stories of urban history, highlighting the stories of women, people of color, and other marginalized groups in an effort to preserve, remember, and hear their important…Subjects
African American, Modern History, African Americans and the Black Diaspora, African American Culture, etc.
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Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland
Welcome to my African American Mapping Project! Here you will find information on formerly enslaved African Americans who made radical and politicized journeys to the British Isles during the c19th to educate British audiences about…Subjects
African American, Modern History, European History, British History
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ArchivalGossip
ArchivalGossip is the digital outlet of the ongoing American Studies research project “Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in Nineteenth-Century US American Culture” (2019-2022). The project explores the role of gossip’s tacit or collective knowledge in…Subjects
LGBTQ+, Women, History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Feminist studies, Gender and women studies, Sexuality studies, Epistemology, Queer studies, Archival sources, Database management--History, Archival materials--Digitization, Manuscripts, Metadata, OCR (Optical character recognition), Computer-aided transcription systems--Software, Privacy
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Asheville Junction: A Blog By David E. Whisnant
David E. Whisnant is an Asheville (NC) outmigrant writing at the intersection of regional, community, family and personal history. Juxtaposes insufficiently explored aspects of Asheville (NC) and regional history with the working class histories of…Software Used
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Enviro-History
Enviro-History is a public, educational project that explores the environment and history through maps, visualizations, essays, music, art and other media. A cornerstone of the site is a series of essays on the relationship between…Subjects
Environment, music, race, class, gender
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Beehive Archive
This Utah radio show highlights pivotal, but sometimes little-known, details about people, places, and events that continue to shape the so-called Beehive State. Tune in for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal…Subjects
Utah - History
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