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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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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Faith, Flight, and Freedom: The Story of the Do-Nguyen Family and Vietnamese-American Catholicism
This public history website traces the story of the Vietnamese-Catholic Do-Nguyen family on their migration journey to the United States; it also explores the wider history and impact of the Catholic community on Vietnamese-Americans. Through…Subjects
Religion, Migration, Vietnamese-American, Modern History
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The Florida Heritage Project and Making Florida Home Podcast Series
The Florida Heritage Project is a collaborative, educational, and public resource meant to enrich our understanding of the immigrant contributions to the state alongside that of generations of Native American and African American populations. Through…Subjects
Florida History
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Women of the South Carolina State Park Service, 1922-1998
The institutional history of the South Carolina State Park Service has often left out the stories of women employees. Its telling focused primarily on the all-male Civilian Conservation Corps program of the 1930s, the park…Subjects
Women--20th century; state parks
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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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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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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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