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 People’s History of Fallujah Digital Archive
The People's History of Fallujah Digital Archive is grassroots effort to create a people's history of Fallujah as an act of reparations. We conceive of grassroots reparations as a broad process of social repair, in…Subjects
Iraq War 2003 - 2011, Fallujah (Iraq)--History, Veterans, War, Refugees, Propaganda, Military History,
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Architecture of Oberlin College
Architecture of Oberlin College provides historical and current information on the College's structures and monuments from its founding in 1833 to the present day. Images of structures in photographs, drawings and engravings that illustrate the…Subjects
American Architecture, Campus Planning, Monuments and Memorials, Oberlin College
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Shansi: Oberlin and Asia
Shansi: Oberlin and Asia is a teaching and research digital publication that documents the activity of Oberlinians in Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s. It contains materials from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Records…Subjects
Chinese History and Society; Republic of China (1912-1949); Missionaries; Education; Agricultural Reform; Animal Husbandry; Boxer Rebellion, China, 1899-1901
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RE:source
RE:source is a digital platform, with stories and photo galleries that explore the history of philanthropic practice. It includes profiles of notable individuals, episodes in fields touched by philanthropic giving, and discussions of issues particular…Software Used
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A History of Colby College’s Buildings
In a project for Professor Jim Fleming's Digital Projects in History class, my goal was to make the history of each individual building on Colby's campus available to all online, which was previously not available.…Subjects
Digital Map
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Slave Societies Digital Archive
The Slave Societies Digital Archive (formerly Ecclesiastical and Secular Sources for Slave Societies), directed by Jane Landers and hosted at Vanderbilt University, preserves endangered ecclesiastical and secular documents related to Africans and African-descended peoples in…Subjects
African American
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Killed at Gettysburg: The Final Footsteps of Gettysburg’s Fallen
This ongoing project features a cross-section of soldiers killed at the battle of Gettysburg whose lives-and deaths-provide a lens into key themes & questions about the larger Civil War era. Researched & written by Gettysburg…Subjects
Civil War and Reconstruction, Antebellum America, Military History, Social History, Cultural History, Memory
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The Digital Public Library of America
Digital Public Library of America is a free, national digital library that provides a single point of access to cultural heritage materials from more than 4,000 libraries, archives, and museums across the United States. Go…Software Used
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Nevada Test Site Oral History Project
The Nevada Test Site Oral History Project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a comprehensive program dedicated to documenting, preserving and disseminating the remembered past of persons affiliated with and affected by the…Subjects
Indigenous, World War II, Women, Veterans, Nuclear Testing
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The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection
The Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection is a collaborative project to provide digital access to materials documenting the roles and experiences of Black Women in the Women’s Suffrage Movement and, more broadly, women’s rights, voting…Subjects
Suffrage, Black Women, Activism, Civil Rights, Voting Rights, African American, Women's History
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