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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Sites of Girlhood
Sites of Girlhood is a large scale global project to put girls “on the map.” Girls around the world have been part participants and, at times, victims to some of the greatest moments in history.…Subjects
Women, Girls
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Confluence: The History of North American Rivers
Confluence is an environmental humanities project that bridges activism and academic methods of knowledge in order to explore the importance of rivers throughout North America. This platform provides an opportunity for people to learn about…Subjects
North American History, Environmental History
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The Well Read President
The Well Read President is a visual timeline and virtual bookshelf of Theodore Roosevelt's reading habits during his first term as president, from 1901-1904. The timeline illuminates not only how books affected Roosevelt’s diplomacy and…Subjects
Presidents, African American History, Literature, Folklore, Politics, Natural History, World History, Naval History, American West, Women's History
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Riot Acts
Riot Acts is a digital history project that uses geospatial visualization, network analysis, and artificial intelligence to provide new insight into the complicated and important origins of extralegal violence in the United States. Spanning from…Subjects
Riots, Civil War, Lynching, Vigilantes, Extralegal executions,
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Mapping Historic Pittston
A time-warp map of Main Street Pittston, PA, a town known for its booming anthracite coal mines in the early twentieth and mid-twentieth century. This project uses StoryMap to illustrate how buildings and landmarks changed…Subjects
Pennsylvania—history, local.
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Monroe & Florence Work Today
This fully-bilingual (English-Spanish) exhibit specifically focuses on people of color murdered by lynching under a pretext of white supremacy. The website contains a historical narrative overview, an interactive timeline, and a map linked to a…Subjects
Lynching--United States
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Visualizing the Red Summer
Visualizing the Red Summer aims to connect the public with the data and geographically dispersed archival material needed to facilitate further research on the Red Summer race riots and lynchings of 1919. The site includes…Subjects
African American History, Violence, World War I, Labor History, Riots, Lynchings, Race
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Mapping Martha Washington’s Condolence Letters
This visualization illustrates the time in Martha Washington's life immediately following the death of George Washington. Using an ArcGIS StoryMap, it depicts information regarding the individuals sending her letters during her time of grief, focusing…Subjects
Early America, Women's History
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The Early Caribbean Digital Archive
The Early Caribbean Digital Archive (ECDA) is a publicly available archive platform for accessing, researching, and contributing pre-twentieth-century Caribbean textual materials. Texts include travel narratives, novels, poetry, natural histories, and diaries that have not been…Subjects
Early Caribbean Society
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“Shoemaker Will”: William Lee, Mount Vernon Ledger 1794-1796
In the unpublished Mount Vernon financial ledger from 1794-1796, Washington's former valet, William Lee, appears unexpectedly as "Shoemaker Will." By analyzing his representation in financial data, I constructed a narrative of Lee’s life after his…Subjects
Slavery--America--History--18th Century.
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