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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Mapping Prejudice
Mapping Prejudice is a co-creative digital mapping project that aims to expose the legacies of racially restrictive housing covenants. Racial covenants were written into property deeds to bar anyone who was non-white from buying or…Subjects
United States, Race and Discrimination
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Memorialization of World War I in New York City
Sites in New York City memorializing World War I or those involved in the war, including opposition to the war.Subjects
World War, 1914-1918--Military personnel--American--New York (State)--New York / World War, 1914-1918--Monuments--New York (State)--New York / World War, 1914-1918--Draft resisters--United States
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Commonplace: the journal of early American life
Commonplace is a destination for exploring and exchanging ideas about early American history and culture before 1900. Less formal than a scholarly journal, more scholarly than a popular magazine, it speaks and listens to scholars,…Subjects
African American, Latinx, Indigenous, Early America, Women, Politics & Government, Art History, Material Culture
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Early Encounters in Native New York: Did Native People Really Sell Manhattan?
This online lesson provides Native perspectives, images, documents, and other sources to help students and teachers understand how the 17th century fur trade brought together two cultures, one Native and the other Dutch, with different…Subjects
Native American/US History
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The Pawnee Treaties of 1833 and 1857
This online lesson provides Native perspectives, images, documents, and other sources to help students and teachers understand the difficult choices and consequences the Pawnee Nation faced when entering into treaty negotiations with the United States.…Subjects
Native American/US History
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The Civil Rights Movement and South Carolina State Parks
This project consists of two story maps that remember and acknowledge the history of segregation in South Carolina State Parks. From its founding in the 1930s until its full integration in 1966, the South Carolina…Subjects
African American; Segregation--1930-1970; Parks--South Carolina--History.
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Invisible Restraints: Life and Labor at Seabrook Farms
This exhibition explores the history of Seabrook Farms, a frozen foods agribusiness and company town in southern New Jersey that recruited incarcerated Japanese Americans, guestworkers from the British West Indies, and European Displaced Persons and…Subjects
African American, Japanese American, Japanese Peruvian, Estonian American, World War II, guestworkers, internment, incarceration, labor history, migration history, Displaced Persons, New Jersey, agricultural history
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THE NAVAJO TREATY OF 1868
This online lesson provides Native perspectives, images, documents, and other sources to help students and teachers understand the remarkable nature of the Navajo Treaty of 1868 and why the Navajo maintained an unflinching resolve to…Subjects
Native American/US History
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Pacific Northwest History and Cultures: Why Do the Foods We Eat Matter?
This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members, images, objects, and other sources to help students and teachers understand the important connections between foods and cultures for Native People of the Pacific Northwest.…Subjects
Native American/US History
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The St. John’s Community Project
The St. John's Community Project (SJCP) explores the history of African Americans in Denton County through the lens of a black community centered on the St. John’s church, school, and cemetery. In the aftermath of…Subjects
African American; Texas, North; History, Local
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