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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Maryland Loyalism Project
The Maryland Loyalism Project presents the stories of the women and men of Maryland who remained loyal to the Crown during the American Revolution. It makes publicly available for the first time digitized and transcribed…Subjects
Loyalism; American Revolution; African American
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The Broadway Journal: A Digital Edition
A digital edition including author personography of this 19C literary magazine.Subjects
Nineteenth Century America, Perodicals, Authorship
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Colonial Virginia Portraits
Colonial Virginia Portraits is an interactive database of oil portraits with a documented history in Virginia or featuring colonial Virginia subjects painted before ca. 1776. This includes portraits painted in both the colonies and abroad.…Subjects
early American history
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Global Boston
Global Boston is a digital project chronicling the history of immigration to greater Boston since the early nineteenth century. Examining different time periods and ethnic groups, the site features capsule histories, photographs, maps, documents, and…Subjects
immigrants, immigration, refugees, Boston (Mass.), Boston (Mass.) metropolitan area, history, ethnic relations
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Fortepan Iowa
Photo archive of Iowa family snapshots, all licensed to the Creative Commons.Subjects
Vernacular Photography, Amateur Photography, Family Snapshots, Iowa History, Rural History, Midwest HIstory
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Proud & Torn: A Visual Memoir of Hungarian History
Proud & Torn: A Visual Memoir of Hungarian History tells the multi-generational story of of an everyday peasant family from the Hungarian countryside. Beginning in 1848, when we first meet the Fábos family, and ending…Subjects
European History, Modern History, Totalitarianism, Holocaust, Fascism, Hungary, Central Europe, Immigration, World War I, World War II, Communism, 1956 Hungarian Revolution
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Encyclopedia of Milwaukee
The Encyclopedia of Milwaukee is a digital urban history encyclopedia offering researchers, students, and the general public a first stop for their inquiries into the history of the Greater Milwaukee area, as well as the…Subjects
Urban History
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Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History
Ben Franklin's World is a show for people who love history and for those who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our present-day world. It's a…Subjects
Early America
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Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection
The Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection, housed in the Ida Pearle and Joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta, Georgia, consists of more than…Subjects
Jewish history, Holocaust history, Jews -- Georgia, Jews -- Alabama, Judaism
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More Than A Kitchen-Aid: The Elizabeth Capell Cookbook
Early modern cookbooks are a treasure trove of information for those interested in the history of food, women's intellectual history, the growth of empiricism and science in the early modern world, and networks of intellectual…Subjects
Food History, Women's History, 17th Century, History of Science, Intellectual History, Gender History, Culinary History
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