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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BlackPast.org
BlackPast is dedicated to providing reliable information on the history of Black people across the globe, and especially in North America. Our goal is to promote greater understanding of our common human experience through knowledge…Subjects
African American and Global African History
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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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Black Lives Matter Oral History Database
The Black Lives Matter Oral History Project was created to help students develop a place-based narrative project that assists them in understanding how the Black Lives Matter Movement impacted those within their home communities. Students…Subjects
Black Lives Matter, African American History, Socal Movements, Oral History
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Armenians of Whitinsville
The Armenians of Whitinsville project celebrates what was once a refugee community in Massachusetts, and looks at how identity has changed over a hundred plus years. It is a web based project that provides a…Subjects
Armenian Immigrant 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
“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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