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 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]
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective connects history with today, providing historical insights on current events. Each month Origins produces a free, open-access main article that features an expert who analyzes a pressing issue in…Full Details
Picturing Black History
An ongoing collaborative effort between Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Getty Images, Picturing Black History seeks to uncover untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally-significant…Subjects
African American, Modern American History
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Chinese Students at Andover, 1878-2000
This website chronicles the history of Chinese students who attended Phillips Academy, an independent high school established in 1778 and located in Massachusetts. This site (in English and Chinese) includes historical context, profiles of individual…Subjects
Chinese students, International relations, Phillips Academy, United States. Chinese Exclusion Act
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Cleveland Voices
Cleveland Voices is an oral history discovery site for the Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection, an ongoing project of the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University. The project also includes…Subjects
Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) metropolitan area, agriculture, architecture, art, environment, industry, landscape, migration, music, neighborhoods, parks, race and ethnicity, suburbs, women
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MaCleKi
MaCleKi is a website that explores the history of Kisumu, Kenya, through location-based storytelling. The project is a product of two National Endowment for the Humanities grants that supported an investigation of how to optimize…Subjects
Kisumu (Kenya), Kenya, agriculture, colonialism, education, environment, gender, health and safety, labor, politics, race, religion, trade
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Beehive Archive
This Utah radio show highlights pivotal, but sometimes little-known, details about people, places, and events that continue to shape the so-called Beehive State. Tune in for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal…Subjects
Utah - History
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Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection
The Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection, housed in the Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, consists of more than…Subjects
Jewish history, Holocaust history, Jews -- Georgia, Jews -- Alabama, Judaism
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