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 wish to update an existing entry, reach out to [email protected]
The American Presidency Project
The American Presidency Project core collection includes virtually all of the public papers, messages, speeches, and orders of American President. The collection is searchable and documents are categorized and tagged. The APP also includes related…Subjects
Presidents--American; Presidents & the Congress; Presidents and their first ladies
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A History of Central Florida: Podcast Project
A History of Central Florida Podcast is a 50-episode podcast that examines the history of central Florida through local area objects found in museums, historical organizations and other places.Subjects
Material Culture, history, anthropology
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Digitizing Rochester’s Religions
Digitizing Rochester’s Religions (DRR) charts Rochester, N.Y.'s religious evolution from 1850 to 2020. We provide new historical essays, an archive of digitized sources from religious sites, and supplementary materials for researchers and teachers. As a…Subjects
Religion--19th century, Religion--20th century, Urban History, Modern History
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Killed at Gettysburg: The Final Footsteps of Gettysburg’s Fallen
This ongoing project features a cross-section of soldiers killed at the battle of Gettysburg whose lives-and deaths-provide a lens into key themes & questions about the larger Civil War era. Researched & written by Gettysburg…Subjects
Civil War and Reconstruction, Antebellum America, Military History, Social History, Cultural History, Memory
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The Broadway Journal: A Digital Edition
A digital edition including author personography of this 19C literary magazine.Subjects
Nineteenth Century America, Perodicals, Authorship
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Fortepan Iowa
Photo archive of Iowa family snapshots, all licensed to the Creative Commons.Subjects
Vernacular Photography, Amateur Photography, Family Snapshots, Iowa History, Rural History, Midwest HIstory
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Proud & Torn: A Visual Memoir of Hungarian History
Proud & Torn: A Visual Memoir of Hungarian History tells the multi-generational story of of an everyday peasant family from the Hungarian countryside. Beginning in 1848, when we first meet the Fábos family, and ending…Subjects
European History, Modern History, Totalitarianism, Holocaust, Fascism, Hungary, Central Europe, Immigration, World War I, World War II, Communism, 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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