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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Environment and Race: Dry Cleaning and Environmental Justice in Indianapolis
This StoryMap traces the environmental and social implications of changing textile cleaning practices across home-based laundry, domestic help, laundresses, and commercial laundries in Indianapolis. It explores more particularly the history of dry cleaning, an industry…Subjects
Environmental justice, dry cleaning, pollution, toxic waste, heritage
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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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Mapping Decadence
Mapping Decadence is a digital project which shows that writers’ geographical location in the Parisian social space played an important and often overlooked role in determining their relationships with publishers at the end of the…Subjects
France, Decadence, Book History
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United States Foreign Policy History & Resource Guide
This open resource educational website provides a coherent overview of U.S. foreign policies and wars from a principled, "just war" perspective. Written for the general public and undergraduate students, each entry draws on the work…Subjects
U.S. foreign policy, War of 1812, US-Mexican War, War of 1898 and US-Filipino War, "Yankee Imperialism," World War I, World War II, Cold War interventionism, Korean War, Vietnam War, Central America wars 1980s, Post-Cold War Era, Africa and the War on Terror, and Afghanistan, Iraq, and the "war on terror"
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Curiosity Corner: Enhancing History Using Local Primary Sources
Curiosity Corner is a series of online publications, which features historical items or collections from the Fulton County Schools (GA) Teaching Museum and Archives. These interactive issues highlight the historical context of primary source-based content…Subjects
Education, Progressive Era, Reconstruction, African American history, Women, Native American history, Civil Rights, School integration
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CUNY Digital History Archive
The CUNY Digital History Archive (CDHA) is an open, participatory digital public archive and portal that provides public online access to a range of archival materials related to the history of the City University of…Subjects
African American, Latinx, education, students, New York City
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Digitizing Rochester’s Religions
Digitizing Rochester’s Religions (DRR) charts Rochester, N.Y.'s religious evolution from 1850 to 2020. We provide new historical essays, an archive of digitized sources from religious sites, and supplementary materials for researchers and teachers. As a…Subjects
Religion--19th century, Religion--20th century, Urban History, Modern History
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Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park Then & Now
A virtual interactive experience that shows rarely seen archival photos of Leo Carrillo Ranch Historic Park alongside modern photos. Leo Carrillo was a famous actor during the golden era of Hollywood. He starred in plays…Subjects
Latinx, California History, Rancho, 20th Century History
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Now Showing: Cinematic Trends in Little Rock Movies, 1933-1963
Now Showing explores the connection between film and culture by examining how major historical events impacted what types of movies were made. This exhibit highlights the Arkansas Amusement Corporation (AAC) and its movie theaters in…Subjects
Motion pictures, Motion picture theaters Arkansas--History, Great Depression, World War II, Cold War--21st century
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Water, CA
Water, CA is a series of exhibitions, a book and website reflecting a collaboration of 22 artists, writers, architects and scientists on the subject of California’s Water.Subjects
Ecology, US History, California Studies, Environmental History, U.S. Border
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