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’s History Illuminated
Women's History Illuminated is an interactive, multi-media exhibit that shares women’s history (as told through National Historic Landmarks) through three distinct pathways tailored for different age ranges. The program explains the NHL Program's mechanics and…Subjects
Women, American 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database and accompanying data-rich digital map allows researchers and educators to search thousands of digitized historical documents…Subjects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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Alpha Phi Alpha at Penn: Digitizing Early Black Student Experiences, 1914 -1930
Alpha Phi Alpha at Penn: Digitizing Early Black Student Experiences, 1914–1930 is a digital history project dedicated to recovering and amplifying the lives of early Black students at the University of Pennsylvania. Centered on the…Subjects
African American, education, Greek letter fraternities, University of Pennsylvania
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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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Retracing the Bell Route: An Archive of Cherokee Removal
A database for the study of the Bell Route of the Trail of Tears and Bell Detachment or emigration group of the "Treaty Party (so-called)". The Bell Route of the Trail of Tears passed through…Subjects
Indigenous
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Haitians Abroad Digital Archive
The Haitians Abroad Digital Archive documents the historical actors that made up the Haitian migration experience during the “long” nineteenth century (1791-1880). Founded in 2022, the site is a young and “living archive” that contains…Subjects
Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Migration, Latin American and the Caribbean, African Diaspora, Atlantic World, Early America, European History
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Arthur P. Schmidt & Company: A Walking Tour of Old Boston
This virtual walking tour of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, leads visitors down the streets on which nineteenth-century music publisher Arthur P. Schmidt published the first repertory of serious art music in the United States. Schmidt was…Subjects
Music, History, Musicology, Publishing, Music Publishing
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History’s Hidden Landscapes: Gilbert Town Historic District
History's Hidden Landscapes is an applied research project highlighting the Gilbert Town Historic District, a site in the National Register of Historic Places in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Informed by an interdisciplinary approach, this project draws…Subjects
Cultural Landscapes, Cultural Heritage, Public Memory, American Revolution, Historic Preservation, Archaeology, Early American, Public History, Material Culture
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Slavery in Chester County (Pennsylvania)
“Slavery in Chester County” is a portal to resources on slavery in Chester County, a southeastern Pennsylvania county that borders Maryland and Delaware. The portal includes: a video and map detailing the case of Jacob…Subjects
Pennsylvania – History, Local; Chester County (Pa.)—Maps; Slavery--America—History; Slavery--Pennsylvania--History--18th century; Slavery-Pennsylvania-Chester County; Slavery-Pennsylvania-Delaware County
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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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