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database and accompanying data-rich digital map allows researchers and educators to search thousands of digitized historical documents…Subjects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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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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Ore on the Range: The Impact of Iron Mining on Minnesota
This online exhibit highlights the rich history of Minnesota’s Iron Range and features primary sources preserved and available in the digital collections of the Minnesota Digital Library (MDL). It also includes interactive storymaps showing the…Subjects
Industry, Mining, Iron Ores, Labor, Environment, Railroads, Shipping
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Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project
Chesapeake Heartland is an African American humanities project dedicated to preserving, digitizing, interpreting, and making accessible thousands of materials related to African American history and culture on Maryland's Eastern Shore, the Delmarva Peninsula and beyond.…Subjects
African Diaspora
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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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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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Yesterqueers
Yesterqueers is a public history project that explores and celebrates the broad expanse of queer history. Creator and Host Amanda W. Timpson creates narratively compelling and academically rigorous videos that help queer people see themselves…Subjects
LGBTQ+, Queer Culture, Queer People, Queer Studies, Transgender Archives, Two-Spirit People
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IFPH Explorers
The Explorers project of the International Federation for Public History, is a space devoted to informing and promoting activities and international debates between historians and other professionals researching or interested in public history. Our main…Subjects
Global Public 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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