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.
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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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The Florida Heritage Project and Making Florida Home Podcast Series
The Florida Heritage Project is a collaborative, educational, and public resource meant to enrich our understanding of the immigrant contributions to the state alongside that of generations of Native American and African American populations. Through…Subjects
Florida History
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IFPH Explorers
The Explorers project of the International Federation for Public History, is a space devoted to informing and promoting activities and international debates between historians and other professionals researching or interested in public history. Our main…Subjects
Global Public History
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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective connects history with today, providing historical insights on current events. Each month Origins produces a free, open-access main article that features an expert who analyzes a pressing issue in…Full Details
Picturing Black History
An ongoing collaborative effort between Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Getty Images, Picturing Black History seeks to uncover untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally-significant…Subjects
African American, Modern American History
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Visions of Democracy
Visions of Democracy is a podcast for those interested in learning about the history of participatory democracy and grassroots activism in America. Most episodes feature an oral history interview between host Kimberly Stahler and activists…Subjects
American democracy, grassroots activism
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Intertwined: The Enslaved Community at George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Intertwined tells the story of the more than 577 people enslaved by George and Martha Washington at Mount Vernon. Told through the biographies of Sambo Anderson, Davy Gray, William Lee, Kate, Ona Judge, Nancy Carter…Subjects
African American, American History, Slavery, Historic Preservation, Early America, Transatlantic Slave Trade, American Revolution, Presidency
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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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Death in the West: The Murder of Frank Little
This podcast uses the brutal, unsolved murder of a union organizer as a window into the broader history of the American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Frank Little was a member…Subjects
Labor, Class, Corporations, Mining, American West, Montana, Capitalism, Civil Rights, Unions, Radical Politics
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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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