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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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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Connecting Threads
Connecting Threads is a public-first, collaborative digital history project dedicated to amplifying the contributions of Indian weavers and African Caribbean consumers to global histories of dress. The project showcases the history of production of checked…Subjects
Fashion & Dress, Material Culture, Caribbean History, South Asian History, African American, African Caribbean, Indian Artisans
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The Atlas of Drowned Towns
The Atlas of Drowned Towns explores the histories of the communities that were displaced or disappeared to make way for the reservoirs for what are called “river development projects” -- aka large dams. Beneath the…Subjects
Dams, Displacement, Community Archiving
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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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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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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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Cleveland Historical
Cleveland Historical is a mobile app and website that explores the Cleveland, Ohio, metropolitan area’s history through location-based storytelling. Informed by hundreds of oral histories, the project melds interpretive text with curated images, audio, video,…Subjects
Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) metropolitan area
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National Park Service website on Island of the Blue Dolphins and the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island
This website uses a children’s book to stimulate interest in the deep history of California’s Channel Islands. It provides manuscripts, periodical accounts, photographs, sound recordings, maps, engravings, and the voices of expert researchers to help…Subjects
Native American history, Russian colonization of North America, North American fur trade, California history, maritime history, natural history, national parks
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DocsTeach
DocsTeach is the online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives. Access thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American…Subjects
US History, Primary sources & original works, Teaching, Government, Civics, Social studies
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