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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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database and accompanying data-rich digital map allows researchers and educators to search thousands of digitized historical documents…Subjects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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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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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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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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Armenians of Whitinsville
The Armenians of Whitinsville project celebrates what was once a refugee community in Massachusetts, and looks at how identity has changed over a hundred plus years. It is a web based project that provides a…Subjects
Armenian Immigrant 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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Cartoon Asheville
From 1907 to 1928, Willis “Billy” Borne worked as the cartoonist for the Asheville Citizen newspaper, and “Cartoon Asheville” catalogs the full corpus of his comic art. Averaging over 280 cartoons a year, Borne composed…Subjects
World War I, African American, Women's Suffrage, Prohibition
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“Through the Wisdom and Knowledge of Dr. Gross”: Stories from Black Life in Rhode Island
Embark on a digital history tour inspired by the Papers of Dr. Carl Russell Gross (1888-1971). Throughout his life, Providence-based physician Dr. Carl Russell Gross collected materials in service of a book that he was…Subjects
African American History, Twentieth Century History
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Waco History
Waco History is a joint venture by two programs at Baylor University, the Institute for Oral History and The Texas Collection , in Waco, Texas. The Institute for Oral History houses the work of Waco…Software Used
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Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition
The Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition (CWGK) animates the lives of Kentuckians between Lincoln's election in November of 1860 to the destruction of slavery in December 1865. Using the office of Kentucky's…Subjects
Civil War History; Kentucky History; African American History; Military history; Political History; Social history
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