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]
Black Lives Matter Oral History Database
The Black Lives Matter Oral History Project was created to help students develop a place-based narrative project that assists them in understanding how the Black Lives Matter Movement impacted those within their home communities. Students…Subjects
Black Lives Matter, African American History, Socal Movements, Oral History
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Death in the West: The Murder of Frank Little
This podcast uses the brutal, unsolved murder of a union organizer as a window into the broader history of the American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Frank Little was a member…Subjects
Labor, Class, Corporations, Mining, American West, Montana, Capitalism, Civil Rights, Unions, Radical Politics
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Beyond the Black Panther: Visions of Afrofuturism in American Comics
Beyond the Black Panther: Visions of Afrofuturism in American Comics is an exhibition presented in three digital formats. Most people are familiar with Marvel's Black Panther, and some are aware of its connections to Afrofuturism,…Subjects
African American, Comics and Graphic Novels, Afrofuturism
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Q&Abe: A Podcast by President Lincoln’s Cottage
Come on down the rabbit hole with us as we answer real questions from visitors to President Lincoln's Cottage that we wish we could spend a half hour answering. We always start with Lincoln and…Subjects
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865, Slavery, Human Trafficking, American Civil War, Race, Leadership, Historic House Museums
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Fugitive Federals: A Digital Humanities Investigation of Escaped Union Prisoners
Fugitive Federals visualizes the escape of 3,000 Federal prisoners of war. The location and timing of these escapes reveals the intertwined collapse of the Confederacy’s prison system, military defense, and society. The routes of travel…Subjects
Civil War, African American, Prisoners of War, Women, ArcGIS, Pedagogy
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Here I Am: Making Photographs with Malcolm Wilson
Behringer-Crawford Museum in partnership with FotoFocus proudly brings you "Here I Am: Making Photographs with Malcolm Wilson," a documentary that explores the drive, vision, and passion of one mountaineer photographer who strives to give back…Subjects
Appalachian Region--Pictorial Works
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Somos de Wichita
A study of how successive generations of Latino families in Wichita navigated issues of identity during the twentieth century.Subjects
Latinx
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A Sense of Place: Stories of Stewardship from the National Park Service
The podcast “A Sense of Place: Stories of Stewardship from the National Park Service” introduces the people who take care of America’s parks. You’ll meet search and rescue rangers. A wilderness manager who called Yosemite…Subjects
National parks, National Park Service, cultural resources, natural resources, Yosemite National Park, race, gender, African American, cartography
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Pioneer Monuments in the American West
Pioneer Monuments in the American West explores the more than 200 public statues commemorating early white settlers in the western United States. An interactive timeline and map enables users to watch the monuments appear--and disappear--over…Subjects
West (U.S.); Monuments; Collective memory; Women
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Confluence: The History of North American Rivers
Confluence is an environmental humanities project that bridges activism and academic methods of knowledge in order to explore the importance of rivers throughout North America. This platform provides an opportunity for people to learn about…Subjects
North American History, Environmental History
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