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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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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Hoosier State Chronicles
Launched in 2011, Hoosier State Chronicles is our statewide digitized historical newspaper collection. Comprising over 1.2 million pages from 1804-2018, it is a freely accessible, fully searchable web portal of Indiana's rich newspaper heritage. It…Subjects
African American, Indigenous, Early America, World War II, Women, Veterans, World War I, Civil War, Labor
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Indiana Memory
Launched in 2008, Indiana Memory is our statewide digital library for Indiana’s cultural heritage, with collections developed through collaboration with libraries and cultural heritage institutions across the state. Available freely online through a web portal,…Subjects
Indiana, LGBTQ+, African American, Latinx, Indigenous, Early America, World War II, World War I, Civil War, Women, Veterans, Labor
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Invisible Restraints: Life and Labor at Seabrook Farms
This exhibition explores the history of Seabrook Farms, a frozen foods agribusiness and company town in southern New Jersey that recruited incarcerated Japanese Americans, guestworkers from the British West Indies, and European Displaced Persons and…Subjects
African American, Japanese American, Japanese Peruvian, Estonian American, World War II, guestworkers, internment, incarceration, labor history, migration history, Displaced Persons, New Jersey, agricultural history
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Environment and Race: Dry Cleaning and Environmental Justice in Indianapolis
This StoryMap traces the environmental and social implications of changing textile cleaning practices across home-based laundry, domestic help, laundresses, and commercial laundries in Indianapolis. It explores more particularly the history of dry cleaning, an industry…Subjects
Environmental justice, dry cleaning, pollution, toxic waste, heritage
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Abbot Academy Collections
The site highlights unique parts of Abbot Academy history through manuscripts, archival records, photographs, and ephemera that document the girls' school from its founding in 1829 to its merger with Phillips Academy in 1973. It…Subjects
Women, Girls, Education--History
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Shansi: Oberlin and Asia
Shansi: Oberlin and Asia is a teaching and research digital publication that documents the activity of Oberlinians in Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s. It contains materials from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Records…Subjects
Chinese History and Society; Republic of China (1912-1949); Missionaries; Education; Agricultural Reform; Animal Husbandry; Boxer Rebellion, China, 1899-1901
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MosaicNC
MosaicNC, a state-managed digital publishing venture, is the home of special projects and two longstanding documentary projects--the Colonial Records of North Carolina and the North Carolina Governors' Papers Project.Subjects
Colonial records, governors' papers, special projects
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The Early Caribbean Digital Archive
The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) is a publicly available archive platform for accessing, researching, and contributing pre-twentieth-century Caribbean textual materials. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been…Subjects
Early Caribbean Society
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