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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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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The Story of the Stuff
An investigation into America’s obsession with temporary memorials, THE STORY OF THE STUFF mixes documentary video and a personal essay as it tracks what happens to more than half a million letters, 65,000 teddy bears,…Subjects
Material Culture, Public History, Archival Studies, Grief Studies, Museum Studies, Mass Shootings, Information Sciences, Gun Violence
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Green Book Cleveland
Green Book Cleveland is a web-based project that maps and documents Northeast Ohio sites of Black entertainment, leisure, and recreation listed in Victor H. Green’s Green Book directories of the 1930s-60s, as well as additional…Subjects
African American history, African American–Social conditions, Racial discrimination, Civil Rights–History, Leisure–Social aspects, Recreation, Suburbs–Environmental aspects, Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) metropolitan area
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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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A People’s EPA
A People’s EPA (APE) is a website for everyone — the public, students, activists, journalists — to understand the federal agency’s importance within the United States, and for the whole planet. Since its creation in…Subjects
Environment, policy, federal, EPA, pollution, climate change, energy, justice, data, science
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Paisajes coloniales. Redibujando los territorios andinos en el siglo XVII
Paisajes coloniales explora los cambios que trajo la conquista española en los paisajes andinos y sociedades indígenas a través del análisis de una pintura de la Sabana de Bogotá de 1614. ¿Por qué existen pueblos…Subjects
Indigenous history, Latin America, Early America, Spanish Empire, Early Modern History, Muisca
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United States Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide
This open resource educational website provides a coherent overview of U.S. foreign policies and wars from a principled, "just war" perspective. Written for the general public and undergraduate students, each entry draws on the work…Subjects
U.S. foreign policy, War of 1812, US-Mexican War, War of 1898 and US-Filipino War, "Yankee Imperialism," World War I, World War II, Cold War interventionism, Korean War, Vietnam War, Central America wars 1980s, Post-Cold War Era, Africa and the War on Terror, and Afghanistan, Iraq, and the "war on terror"
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WILMINGTON MASSACRE AND COUP D’ÉTAT OF 1898 – A TIMELINE OF EVENTS
This Story Map uses maps, photographs, and newspapers and a narrative to explore the contexts and history of the 1898 massacre and coup in Wilmington, North Carolina. This digital asset was designed as part of…Subjects
African American, Wilmington Massacre, Wilmington NC, 1898, White supremacy movements--North Carolina--Wilmington--History--19th century.
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Uncovering Their History: African, African-American and Native-American Burials in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground, 1640-1815
The Ancient Burying Ground is Hartford’s oldest historic site and the only one remaining from the seventeenth century. From 1640 until the early 1800s, it served as Hartford’s primary graveyard. Our "Uncovering Their History" website…Subjects
African American, Indigenous, Early America
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Monroe & Florence Work Today
This fully-bilingual (English-Spanish) exhibit specifically focuses on people of color murdered by lynching under a pretext of white supremacy. The website contains a historical narrative overview, an interactive timeline, and a map linked to a…Subjects
Lynching--United States
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