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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Jane Addams Digital Edition
The Jane Addams Papers is a scholarly editing project publishing the correspondence and writings of social worker, settlement founder, peace activist, and Progressive icon Jane Addams. The freely accessible digital edition covers the years 1901-1935…Subjects
American History, Social Work, World War I, European History, Peace, Child Labor, Settlement Movement, Woman Suffrage, Women's Rights, Philosophy, Public Health, Education,
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Oak Lawn Public Library Local History Collection
The Oak Lawn Public Library Local History Collection is a long-term digital project created to preserve and highlight the community's past. It features thousands of images, documents and artifacts covering numerous aspects of Oak Lawn's…Subjects
Oak Lawn, Illinois, People, Businesses, Churches, Schools, Streets, Homes, Government, Everyday Life, Police, Fire, World War I, World War II, Women, Modern History, African American, Veterans, Celebrations, Organizations, Parks, Agriculture, Transportation, Nature, Suburbs, Libraries, Natural Disasters
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Emancipation, Education, and the Black Freedom Struggle
Explore emancipation, education, and the black freedom movement though the records and photographs of Christiansburg Institute.Subjects
African American, Education, Segregation, Slavery, Booker T. Washington, Appalachia, Virginia
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Footnoting History
Footnoting History is a bi-weekly podcast series dedicated to overlooked, popularly unknown, and exciting stories plucked from the footnotes of history. The brainchild of Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge, Footnoting History began airing in February 2013 and has…Subjects
European History, American History, African American, Indigenous, Women, Modern History
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Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project
A multimodal public history project about the Berkeley Folk Music Festival (1958-1970) & folk music revival on the West Coast of the United States. The project consists of an open-source, digital repository of over 35,000…Subjects
US History, Music History, Cultural History, Folklore, Folk Music, Cultural Heritage, California History, Southern Studies, American Studies, Popular Music Studies, African American History, Post-World War II History
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Writing Westward
Writing Westward is a monthly podcast featuring conversations with writers of the North American West. The series samples from a variety of disciplines and subfields with the goal of connecting regional general and academic audiences…Subjects
American West
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Intermountain Histories
Intermountain Histories is a free mobile app and website that provides scholarly information and interpretive stories of historic sites and events around the Intermountain West regions of Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and…Subjects
American West
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Brazil Culture Connections
Brazil Culture Connections features interviews with Brazilian artists and cultural leaders, connecting through the pandemic. The bilingual podcast offers content not represented in the English language mainstream media and education to engage with the Brazilian…Subjects
African Diaspora, Brazil, Cultural Studies, Art
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A Shaky Truce : Starkville Civil Rights, 1960-1980
Through the use of digitized archival documents and oral history interviews, “A Shaky Truce” tells the history of the civil rights movement in Starkville, Mississippi (home to Mississippi State University) with particular emphasis on the…Subjects
African Americans; civil rights; school desegregation; Mississippi; Mississippi State University; Starkville, Mississippi
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Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project
The Scottish Court of Session Digital Archive Project is an initiative to explore everyday life in early America and the British Atlantic world of eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through Session Papers. These printed materials…Subjects
British Atlantic World, American Revolution, Scotland, Legal History, Social History, Economic History, Imperial History
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