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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Web Exhibits in the History of the Physical Sciences
The Center for History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics has created and maintains several web exhibits on the history of the physical sciences. The topics covered range from an in-depth look at…Subjects
Science, Modern History
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Mapping Prejudice
Mapping Prejudice is a co-creative digital mapping project that aims to expose the legacies of racially restrictive housing covenants. Racial covenants were written into property deeds to bar anyone who was non-white from buying or…Subjects
United States, Race and Discrimination
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Invisible Restraints: Life and Labor at Seabrook Farms
This exhibition explores the history of Seabrook Farms, a frozen foods agribusiness and company town in southern New Jersey that recruited incarcerated Japanese Americans, guestworkers from the British West Indies, and European Displaced Persons and…Subjects
African American, Japanese American, Japanese Peruvian, Estonian American, World War II, guestworkers, internment, incarceration, labor history, migration history, Displaced Persons, New Jersey, agricultural history
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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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The Jefferson Weather & Climate Records
This digital documentary edition encompasses transcribed texts and data from records of weather and climate in Thomas Jefferson’s papers. Included are Jefferson’s daily meteorological observations from July 1776 to June 1826, plus summary tables, descriptive…Subjects
History of Science and Technology, Meteorology, Phenology, Weather and Climate
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Papers of Martin Van Buren
The Papers of Martin Van Buren is a joint digital/print project that is making accessible approximately 13,000 documents belonging to the eighth president. By transcribing Van Buren’s papers, including his letters, speeches, notes, and miscellaneous…Subjects
Presidents
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Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the…Subjects
Indigenous, World War II, Women, Veterans, Nuclear Testing
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MosaicNC
MosaicNC, a state-managed digital publishing venture, is the home of special projects and two longstanding documentary projects--the Colonial Records of North Carolina and the North Carolina Governors' Papers Project.Subjects
Colonial records, governors' papers, special projects
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Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project
The Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project is an initiative to explore everyday life in early America and the British Atlantic world of eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through Session Papers. These printed materials…Subjects
British Atlantic World, American Revolution, Scotland, Legal History, Social History, Economic History, Imperial History
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Uncovering Their History: African, African-American and Native-American Burials in Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground, 1640-1815
The Ancient Burying Ground is Hartford’s oldest historic site and the only one remaining from the seventeenth century. From 1640 until the early 1800s, it served as Hartford’s primary graveyard. Our "Uncovering Their History" website…Subjects
African American, Indigenous, Early America
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