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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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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Frederick Douglass in Britain and Ireland
Welcome to my African American Mapping Project! Here you will find information on formerly enslaved African Americans who made radical and politicized journeys to the British Isles during the c19th to educate British audiences about…Subjects
African American, Modern History, European History, British History
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ArchivalGossip
ArchivalGossip is the digital outlet of the ongoing American Studies research project “Economy and Epistemology of Gossip in Nineteenth-Century US American Culture” (2019-2022). The project explores the role of gossip’s tacit or collective knowledge in…Subjects
LGBTQ+, Women, History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Feminist studies, Gender and women studies, Sexuality studies, Epistemology, Queer studies, Archival sources, Database management--History, Archival materials--Digitization, Manuscripts, Metadata, OCR (Optical character recognition), Computer-aided transcription systems--Software, Privacy
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A People’s EPA
A People’s EPA (APE) is a website for everyone — the public, students, activists, journalists — to understand the federal agency’s importance within the United States, and for the whole planet. Since its creation in…Subjects
Environment, policy, federal, EPA, pollution, climate change, energy, justice, data, science
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Asheville Junction: A Blog By David E. Whisnant
David E. Whisnant is an Asheville (NC) outmigrant writing at the intersection of regional, community, family and personal history. Juxtaposes insufficiently explored aspects of Asheville (NC) and regional history with the working class histories of…Software Used
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Enviro-History
Enviro-History is a public, educational project that explores the environment and history through maps, visualizations, essays, music, art and other media. A cornerstone of the site is a series of essays on the relationship between…Subjects
Environment, music, race, class, gender
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Gals Against Smog and Pollution: Montana Women Take on Polluters
This exhibit reveals the surprising story and influence of a group of environmental activists that went by the name GASP: Gals Against Smog and Pollution. Women organized GASP in Missoula, Montana in the late 1960s…Subjects
Environmentalism, Gender, Women, Class, American West, Pollution, Mills
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Death in the West: The Murder of Frank Little
This podcast uses the brutal, unsolved murder of a union organizer as a window into the broader history of the American West in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Frank Little was a member…Subjects
Labor, Class, Corporations, Mining, American West, Montana, Capitalism, Civil Rights, Unions, Radical Politics
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Beehive Archive
This Utah radio show highlights pivotal, but sometimes little-known, details about people, places, and events that continue to shape the so-called Beehive State. Tune in for a two-minute look at some of the most pivotal…Subjects
Utah - History
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