Page created by New Media Writing Studio Graduate Assistant Joe Schiller
Below you will find an array of Digital History projects. They are diverse in topic, geographic location, time period, method, and goals, but together they give one a good idea about the possibilities for Digital History. At the bottom of this page are links to academic programs in Digital History and new media, as well as relevant articles and blog posts about the field.
Digital History Projects
- Archive of Early American Images at John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, https://jcb.lunaimaging.com/luna/servlet/JCB~1~1
- American Indian Histories and Cultures from Adam Matthew and the Newberry Library (accessible through TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library page), http://www.aihc.amdigital.co.uk
- The Atlantic Slave Trade in Two Minutes, http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_history_of_american_slavery/2015/06/animated_interactive_of_the_history_of_the_atlantic_slave_trade.html
- Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South, at Duke University, https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/behindtheveil/
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown, Directed by TCU Assistant Professor of History, Max Krochmal, https://crbb.tcu.edu
- Cleveland Historical, https://clevelandhistorical.org/
- England’s Immigrants, https://www.englandsimmigrants.com
- Making the History of 1989, http://chnm.gmu.edu/1989/
- Mapping Decline, http://mappingdecline.lib.uiowa.edu/map/
- Memories/Motifs: Holocaust Survivor Narratives in Postwar America, http://www.memoriesmotifs.com
- Pacific Northwest Labor and Civil Rights Projects, https://depts.washington.edu/labhist/
- Photogrammar, http://photogrammar.yale.edu
- Republic of Letters, at Stanford University, http://republicofletters.stanford.edu
- The Strachwitz Frontera Collection of Mexican and Mexican American Recordings at UCLA http://frontera.library.ucla.edu
- Virginia Center for Digital History, http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/index.php?page=Projects#VALLEY
- Virtual Plasencia, 15th-century Spain
University Programs and Centers for Digital History
- Digital History at the University of Houston, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
- Digital History at the University of Nebraska, http://digitalhistory.unl.edu
- Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, https://rrchnm.org/
Other Resources
- Article about the production of Digital History at Stanford University, https://www.1843magazine.com/content/ideas/john-hooper/rewriting-history