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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Ratification of the 19th Amendment: Timeline Map
This digital story map is a timeline of the ratification process for the 19th Amendment. The United States Congress passed the 19th Amendment, or "Susan B. Anthony Amendment" on June 4, 1919 and sent it…Subjects
Women's History, Women's Suffrage
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Battle of Salem Church Digital Battlefield Tour
A digital battlefield map and tour for the Battle of Salem Church, May 3-4, 1863 featuring images, battle maps, and primary sources. Only about one acre of the battlefield is preserved and Salem Church is…Subjects
Civil War
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Hidden History Tour of the University of Maine
This collaboration between public historian Karen Sieber and students from the University of Maine highlights key people, moments, and places in campus history that often go overlooked. This student-led tour was built using Clio, and…Subjects
LGBTQ+, African American, Indigenous, World War II, Women, Veterans, Great Depression, Red Summer, World War I, Morrill Act, Campus History
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Circulating Now—From the Historical Collections of the National Library of Medicine
Circulating Now explores the rich collections of the National Library of Medicine, highlighting new acquisitions and curatorial projects of the Library and interviews and guest posts from researchers working in the collections. The National Library…Subjects
History of Medicine
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National Park Service website on Island of the Blue Dolphins and the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island
This website uses a children’s book to stimulate interest in the deep history of California’s Channel Islands. It provides manuscripts, periodical accounts, photographs, sound recordings, maps, engravings, and the voices of expert researchers to help…Subjects
Native American history, Russian colonization of North America, North American fur trade, California history, maritime history, natural history, national parks
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Urban Roots Podcast
Urban Roots is a podcast that tells little known stories of urban history, highlighting the stories of women, people of color, and other marginalized groups in an effort to preserve, remember, and hear their important…Subjects
African American, Modern History, African Americans and the Black Diaspora, African American Culture, etc.
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Hoosier State Chronicles
Launched in 2011, Hoosier State Chronicles is our statewide digitized historical newspaper collection. Comprising over 1.2 million pages from 1804-2018, it is a freely accessible, fully searchable web portal of Indiana's rich newspaper heritage. It…Subjects
African American, Indigenous, Early America, World War II, Women, Veterans, World War I, Civil War, Labor
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Indiana Memory
Launched in 2008, Indiana Memory is our statewide digital library for Indiana’s cultural heritage, with collections developed through collaboration with libraries and cultural heritage institutions across the state. Available freely online through a web portal,…Subjects
Indiana, LGBTQ+, African American, Latinx, Indigenous, Early America, World War II, World War I, Civil War, Women, Veterans, Labor
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DocsTeach
DocsTeach is the online tool for teaching with documents from the National Archives. Access thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American…Subjects
US History, Primary sources & original works, Teaching, Government, Civics, Social studies
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PhiloBiblon
PhiloBiblon is the corpus of the romance vernacular sources of medieval and early modern Iberian culture, both manuscript and printed, the texts they contain, the individuals involved with the production and transmission of those sources…Subjects
Medieval Iberian Peninsula. Texts and studies
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