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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Investigating Indentured Servitude: Visualizing Experiences of Colonial America
One of many historical treasures of the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum is a book recording the details of over 5,000 indenture contracts registered between 1771 and 1773. These entries contain a lot of…Subjects
Early America, Apprentices -- Pennsylvania, Indentured servants -- Pennsylvania
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“Shoemaker Will”: William Lee, Mount Vernon Ledger 1794-1796
In the unpublished Mount Vernon financial ledger from 1794-1796, Washington's former valet, William Lee, appears unexpectedly as "Shoemaker Will." By analyzing his representation in financial data, I constructed a narrative of Lee’s life after his…Subjects
Slavery--America--History--18th Century.
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Global Boston
Global Boston is a digital project chronicling the history of immigration to greater Boston since the early nineteenth century. Examining different time periods and ethnic groups, the site features capsule histories, photographs, maps, documents, and…Subjects
immigrants, immigration, refugees, Boston (Mass.), Boston (Mass.) metropolitan area, history, ethnic relations
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