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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Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective connects history with today, providing historical insights on current events. Each month Origins produces a free, open-access main article that features an expert who analyzes a pressing issue in…Full Details
Picturing Black History
An ongoing collaborative effort between Ohio State’s Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective and Getty Images, Picturing Black History seeks to uncover untold stories and rarely seen images of the Black experience, providing new context around culturally-significant…Subjects
African American, Modern American History
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Chinese Students at Andover, 1878-2000
This website chronicles the history of Chinese students who attended Phillips Academy, an independent high school established in 1778 and located in Massachusetts. This site (in English and Chinese) includes historical context, profiles of individual…Subjects
Chinese students, International relations, Phillips Academy, United States. Chinese Exclusion Act
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Cartoon Asheville
From 1907 to 1928, Willis “Billy” Borne worked as the cartoonist for the Asheville Citizen newspaper, and “Cartoon Asheville” catalogs the full corpus of his comic art. Averaging over 280 cartoons a year, Borne composed…Subjects
World War I, African American, Women's Suffrage, Prohibition
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The Capra Bailey Project
The Capra Bailey Project introduces you to "Its a Wonderful Life" as historical immersion experience in both the American past and present. For the historically interested person, this website treats both the film and its…Subjects
United States, Popular Culture. 1917---
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Better Craftsmen, Not Gods: An Online Exhibit on the Editing of T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
"Better Craftsmen, Not Gods" is a critical examination of the development of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land." Written in dialogue between them, scholar Tyler Malone and digital archive editor Robert Eric Shoemaker track the development…Subjects
Literature, Modernism, Art, Editing
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Arthur P. Schmidt & Company: A Walking Tour of Old Boston
This virtual walking tour of downtown Boston, Massachusetts, leads visitors down the streets on which nineteenth-century music publisher Arthur P. Schmidt published the first repertory of serious art music in the United States. Schmidt was…Subjects
Music, History, Musicology, Publishing, Music Publishing
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Klezmer Archive Project
The Klezmer Archive (KA) project is creating a universally accessible digital archival tool for interaction, discovery, and research on available information about klezmer music and its network of contemporary and historical people. Taking individual melodies…Subjects
European History, Jewish History, Modern History
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“Through the Wisdom and Knowledge of Dr. Gross”: Stories from Black Life in Rhode Island
Embark on a digital history tour inspired by the Papers of Dr. Carl Russell Gross (1888-1971). Throughout his life, Providence-based physician Dr. Carl Russell Gross collected materials in service of a book that he was…Subjects
African American History, Twentieth Century History
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Waco History
Waco History is a joint venture by two programs at Baylor University, the Institute for Oral History and The Texas Collection , in Waco, Texas. The Institute for Oral History houses the work of Waco…Software Used
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