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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BlackPast.org
BlackPast is dedicated to providing reliable information on the history of Black people across the globe, and especially in North America. Our goal is to promote greater understanding of our common human experience through knowledge…Subjects
African American and Global African History
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New Jersey Slavery Records
New Jersey Slavery Records makes archival sources and data about slavery widely available to the public. This open-access database and accompanying data-rich digital map allows researchers and educators to search thousands of digitized historical documents…Subjects
African American; Slavery
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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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Ore on the Range: The Impact of Iron Mining on Minnesota
This online exhibit highlights the rich history of Minnesota’s Iron Range and features primary sources preserved and available in the digital collections of the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL). It also includes interactive storymaps showing the…Subjects
Industry, Mining, Iron Ores, Labor, Environment, Railroads, Shipping
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Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project
Chesapeake Heartland is an African American humanities project dedicated to preserving, digitizing, interpreting, and making accessible thousands of materials related to African American history and culture on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Delmarva Peninsula and beyond.…Subjects
African Diaspora
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Connecting Threads
Connecting Threads is a public-first, collaborative digital history project dedicated to amplifying the contributions of Indian weavers and African Caribbean consumers to global histories of dress. The project showcases the history of production of checked…Subjects
Fashion & Dress, Material Culture, Caribbean History, South Asian History, African American, African Caribbean, Indian Artisans
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The Atlas of Drowned Towns
The Atlas of Drowned Towns explores the histories of the communities that were displaced or disappeared to make way for the reservoirs for what are called “river development projects” -- aka large dams. Beneath the…Subjects
Dams, Displacement, Community Archiving
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Citizenship in Indian Country: 1924 and the Origins of Indigenous Civil Rights
One hundred years ago, the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 promised American citizenship to Indigenous people across the United States. While this is often described as the origin or major turning point of Indigenous rights…Subjects
Indigenous
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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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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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