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 HBCU Radio Preservation Project
The HBCU Radio Preservation Project acts with urgency to preserve non-commercial FM HBCU radio history through community outreach, field archiving, digitization, and audio-based storytelling. It aims to foster an ethos of care among HBCU libraries…Subjects
Black History, HBCUs, Radio, Preservation, Oral History, Mentorship
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Chicken Wings in Buffalo: A Timeline
This project collects and lays out documentary evidence in chronological order, tracing the evolution of chicken wings, popularly called Buffalo wings, from a local curiosity to a national culinary favorite. It features both chicken wing…Subjects
Food - History; Food - New York (State) - Buffalo; Cooking - New York (State) - Buffalo.
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The Atlas of Drowned Towns
The Atlas of Drowned Towns explores the histories of the communities that were displaced or disappeared to make way for the reservoirs for what are called “river development projects” -- aka large dams. Beneath the…Subjects
Dams, Displacement, Community Archiving
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Picturing Black History
An ongoing collaborative effort between Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Getty Images, Picturing Black History seeks to uncover untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally-significant…Subjects
African American, Modern American History
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The Capra Bailey Project
The Capra Bailey Project introduces you to "Its a Wonderful Life" as historical immersion experience in both the American past and present. For the historically interested person, this website treats both the film and its…Subjects
United States, Popular Culture. 1917---
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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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South Carolina Digital Library
The South Carolina Digital Library provides free access to historic materials from over 60 cultural heritage institutions across the state. Over 200,000 items have been added so far, including maps, books, manuscripts, film, photographs, and…Software Used
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Green Book Cleveland
Green Book Cleveland is a web-based project that maps and documents Northeast Ohio sites of Black entertainment, leisure, and recreation listed in Victor H. Green’s Green Book directories of the 1930s-60s, as well as additional…Subjects
African American history, African American–Social conditions, Racial discrimination, Civil Rights–History, Leisure–Social aspects, Recreation, Suburbs–Environmental aspects, Cleveland (Ohio), Cleveland (Ohio) metropolitan area
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MaCleKi
MaCleKi is a website that explores the history of Kisumu, Kenya, through location-based storytelling. The project is a product of two National Endowment for the Humanities grants that supported an investigation of how to optimize…Subjects
Kisumu (Kenya), Kenya, agriculture, colonialism, education, environment, gender, health and safety, labor, politics, race, religion, trade
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The Kitchen in the Cabinet: Histories of Food and Science
"The Kitchen in the Cabinet" is a digital exhibition that explores the historical intersections of food and natural science. It tells the stories of centuries-old food artifacts that have survived to the present day, despite…Subjects
History of Science, Food History, Natural History, Culinary History, Early America, African American, European History, Enlightenment, 17th Century, 18th Century
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