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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Women of the South Carolina State Park Service, 1922-1998
The institutional history of the South Carolina State Park Service has often left out the stories of women employees. Its telling focused primarily on the all-male Civilian Conservation Corps program of the 1930s, the park…Subjects
Women--20th century; state parks
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Yesterqueers
Yesterqueers is a public history project that explores and celebrates the broad expanse of queer history. Creator and Host Amanda W. Timpson creates narratively compelling and academically rigorous videos that help queer people see themselves…Subjects
LGBTQ+, Queer Culture, Queer People, Queer Studies, Transgender Archives, Two-Spirit People
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Better Craftsmen, Not Gods: An Online Exhibit on the Editing of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
"Better Craftsmen, Not Gods" is a critical examination of the development of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." Written in dialogue between them, scholar Tyler Malone and digital archive editor Robert Eric Shoemaker track the development…Subjects
Literature, Modernism, Art, Editing
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Voices of Charity Oral History Project
The Voices of Charity Oral History Project was initiated in honor of the Centennials of Marillac Social Center (in 2014) and the St. Vincent de Paul Center (in 2015) social service centers in Chicago, founded…Subjects
Social Services, African American, Daughters of Charity, Illinois, Chicago
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Gals Against Smog and Pollution: Montana Women Take on Polluters
This exhibit reveals the surprising story and influence of a group of environmental activists that went by the name GASP: Gals Against Smog and Pollution. Women organized GASP in Missoula, Montana in the late 1960s…Subjects
Environmentalism, Gender, Women, Class, American West, Pollution, Mills
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The Civil Rights Movement and South Carolina State Parks
This project consists of two story maps that remember and acknowledge the history of segregation in South Carolina State Parks. From its founding in the 1930s until its full integration in 1966, the South Carolina…Subjects
African American; Segregation--1930-1970; Parks--South Carolina--History.
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Animating Queer History
Only five US states require LGBTQ+ history as part of K-12 social studies curriculums. But according to research from GLSEN, queer students who learn about LGBTQ+ topics feel safer at school, report lower rates of…Subjects
LGBTQ+, United States, Modern History
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1777 Chester County Property Atlas (Pennsylvania)
This interactive atlas documents Chester County’s 1777 property owners, public roads, points of interest, and reported British plundering during the Philadelphia Campaign of the American Revolution. The original intent of the project was to contribute…Subjects
Pennsylvania – History – Revolution, 1775-1783; Pennsylvania – History, Local; Chester County (Pa.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783; Chester County (Pa.)--Maps
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Mapping Decadence
Mapping Decadence is a digital project which shows that writers’ geographical location in the Parisian social space played an important and often overlooked role in determining their relationships with publishers at the end of the…Subjects
France, Decadence, Book History
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South Carolina’s Equalization Schools Program, 1951-1959
South Carolina passed its first permanent sales tax in 1951 to build new African American high schools. The state wanted to preserve racial segregation, so it made an effort to provide "separate but equal" schools.…Subjects
African American, Civil Rights, Modern History, South Carolina--History, United States--History
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