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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The Story of the Stuff
An investigation into America’s obsession with temporary memorials, THE STORY OF THE STUFF mixes documentary video and a personal essay as it tracks what happens to more than half a million letters, 65,000 teddy bears,…Subjects
Material Culture, Public History, Archival Studies, Grief Studies, Museum Studies, Mass Shootings, Information Sciences, Gun Violence
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Walnut Ridge and Hoxie Online Archive (WHOA)
A virtual collection of pre-WWII historical sources of these two towns in eastern Lawrence County, Arkansas, and their outlying areas; searchable by topic, timeline, town, and type of source. Contains over 1,000 sources, with the…Subjects
Walnut Ridge (Ark.), Hoxie (Ark.), Rural History, 1870-1940
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Shansi: Oberlin and Asia
Shansi: Oberlin and Asia is a teaching and research digital publication that documents the activity of Oberlinians in Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s. It contains materials from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Records…Subjects
Chinese History and Society; Republic of China (1912-1949); Missionaries; Education; Agricultural Reform; Animal Husbandry; Boxer Rebellion, China, 1899-1901
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Maryland Loyalism Project
The Maryland Loyalism Project presents the stories of the women and men of Maryland who remained loyal to the Crown during the American Revolution. It makes publicly available for the first time digitized and transcribed…Subjects
Loyalism; American Revolution; African American
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