LibGuides: Digital Humanities: History & Economics

World History & Economics

docubase Collection of digital humanities projects in all areas.
Open Heritage Discover multimedia tours and panoramic images of cultural monuments and spaces.
The Stockton Postcolonial Studies Project The Stockton Postcolonial Studies Project is an ongoing digital research project that explores different theoretical arenas within postcolonial studies.

1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War The online encyclopedia is a multi-perspective, public-access knowledge base on the First World War.
Contested Memories: The Battle of Mount Street Bridge This project employs spatial and temporal methods to create a virtual world visualization of the events of The Battle of Mount Street Bridge during the Easter Rising.
French Revolution Digital Archive This resource provides digital versions of the key research sources of the French Revolution.
The Garibaldi & the Risorgimento Archive The Garibaldi & the Risorgimento digital archive seeks to provide a comprehensive resource for the interdisciplinary study and teaching of the life and deeds of one of the protagonists of the Italian unification process, Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882).
In Search of the Drowned: Testimonies and Testimonial Fragments of the Holocaust This project was built in collaboration with the Yale DH Laboratory and the Yale Fortunoff Archive. It uses state-of-art digital technology (data mining, corpus and computational linguistics and visualisation) to build a digital archive that documents the Holocaust from the victims’ perspective.
Kindred Britain Kindred Britain is a network of nearly 30,000 individuals — many of them iconic figures in British culture — connected through family relationships of blood, marriage, or affiliation.
Paris: Capital of the 19th Century Online access to pictorial works and texts selected from the collections of three Brown University libraries, which illuminate the political, cultural and social movements of this time period.
Sound Toll Registers The Sound Toll Registers (STR) are the accounts of the toll which the king of Denmark levied on the shipping through the Sound, the strait between Sweden and Denmark.
Virtual St. Paul’s Cathedral Project The Virtual St. Paul’s Cathedral Project enables visitors to experience worship and preaching at St. Paul’s Cathedral and in Paul’s Churchyard as events that unfold over time and on particular occasions in London in the early seventeenth century.
Éischte Weltkrich: Remembering the Great War in Luxembourg

Hiroshima Archive Provides a panoramic view over Hiroshima to browse survivors’ accounts, photos, maps, and other materials as of 1945, together with aerial photos, 3D topographical data, and building models as of 2010.
Re-Envisioning Japan Online critical archive of tourism, travel, and educational ephemera that documents changing images of Japan and its place in the world in the early-to-mid-20th century.
The Rise of the Chinese Meritocracy: A Digital Approach to the Study of Cultural Change in Tenth-Century China Explores the sudden appearance in the 10th c. of a meritocratic culture that transformed Chinese elite society and constituted the ideological foundation of China's famous civil service exams.
Native-Land.ca See where Indigenous communities once lived in the Western hemisphere

Digital Augustan Rome The Digital Augustan Rome website is a long-term mapping project that is designed as a digital successor to the published book and maps of Mapping Augustan Rome.
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World ORBIS gives visitors a sense of the shape of the Roman world, and serves as a tool for the understanding of premodern history.
Papyri.info The Papyrological Navigator (PN) supports searching, browsing, and aggregation of ancient papyrological documents and related materials; the Papyrological Editor (PE) enables multi-author, version controlled, peer reviewed scholarly curation of papyrological texts, translations, commentary, scholarly metadata, institutional catalog records, bibliography, and images.
Perpetuity - Palmyra View 3D reconstructions of monuments in Palmyra, in modern-day Syria.
Perseus Digital Library Digitized texts, artifacts, and more that cover the history, literature, and culture of the Greco-Roman world.
Pleiades Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places.
ToposText ToposText is an indexed collection of ancient texts and mapped places relevant to the history and mythology of the ancient Greeks from the Neolithic period up through the 2nd century CE.
UCLA Encylopedia of Egyptology The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology is an international cooperative project to provide high-quality, peer-reviewed information on ancient Egypt.
Vindolanda Tablets Online This site is an online edition of the Vindolanda writing tablets, excavated from the Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England.
Digital Prosopography of the Roman Republic This project will help you do prosopographical research into the elite of the Roman Republic, its structure, scale and changes in composition over time

Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States This digital edition of Charles O. Paullin and John K. Wright's Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States reproduces all of the atlas's nearly 700 maps.
A Land Beyond the Stars A digital version of Amerigo Vespucci and Martin Waldseemüller’s 1507 Map of the World.
Old Maps Online OldMapsOnline.org indexes over 400,000 historical maps.

Hiroshima Archive

Image of the Hiroshima Archive, which allows visitors to explore a web of images, people and sites relating to the US's bombing of Hiroshima during WWII.

BlackPast

Blackpast.org is a reference center and collection of primary documents on the history of Africans and African Americans.

United States History & Economics

American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History Created by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond, American Panorama is an historical atlas of the United States for the twenty-first century. It combines research with interactive mapping techniques.
Chronicling America From the Library of Congress, Chronicling America is a Website providing access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages from 1789-1963
Digital Chicago A digital exhibition of Chicago's history, including images, documents, and archaeological finds.
Digital History This project was designed and developed to support the teaching of American History in K-12 schools and colleges and includes a U.S. history textbook, over 400 annotated documents from the Gilder Lehrman Collection, supplemented by primary sources on slavery, Mexican American, Asian American, and Native American history, and U.S. political, social, and legal history.
DIY History DIY history allows visitors to annotate and transcribe letters, ephemera, photographs, and other historical objects.
The History Engine Participants who work with the History Engine project learn the craft of an historian: they examine primary documents, place these documents in a larger historical context using secondary sources, and prepare cogent analysis of their sources for the public eye.
Invasion of America Interactive map that shows the way in which colonizers systematically invaded Native American territory.
Library of Congress Digital Collections Find digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congress’s vast holdings.
The Living New Deal The Living New Deal is a research project and online public archive documenting the scope and impact of the New Deal on Americans’ lives and landscape.
Mississippi Digital Library Search digital archives from institutions all over MS.
Our Marathon: The Boston Bombing Digital Archive Our Marathon is a crowd-sourced archive of pictures, videos, stories, and even social media related to the Boston Marathon; the bombing on April 15, 2013; the subsequent search, capture, and trial of the individuals who planted the bombs; and the city’s healing process.
Photogrammar Photogrammar is a web-based platform for organizing, searching, and visualizing the 170,000 photographs from 1935 to 1945 created by the United States Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information (FSA-OWI).
The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project The Salem Witch Trials Documentary Archive and Transcription Project consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records. .

BlackPast.org Online reference center showcasing materials on African American history.
Bracero Archive The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
Digital Schomberg Information and digital objects on global black experience, including exhibitions, books, articles, print, audio, and more.
Documenting the American South A digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.
Gullah Digital Archive The Kenyon Gullah Digital Archive collects the oral histories of Gullah people who live and work on St. Helena.
Umbra Search of African American History Find almost a million items from digital collections across the country relating to African American History.

Slavery and Abolition Portal This site is designed to help researchers and students find primary sources related to slavery, abolition, and resistance within Yale University's libraries and galleries.
Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice The report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice draws on a wide array of historical documents, from the records of slaving voyages to personal correspondence to student commencement orations.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database From Emory University, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database has information on almost 36,000 slaving voyages that forcibly embarked over 10 million Africans for transport to the Americas between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Black Abolitionist Archive Collection of over 800 speeches by black abolitionists from the Antebellum era, plus 1000 editorials from the same period.
Colored Conventions Documents from 1830-1890's from state and national meetings called "Colored Conventions," in which black men, mostly, met to discuss issues of justice. Includes information about their networks, including the black women who did similar work, but remained on the sidelines of these meetings.

Civil War Letters From Hamilton College, this is a collection of 456 letters written during the American Civil war and related to regiments mustered out counties in the Central New York region.
Cornell University Library Making of America Collection The Cornell University Library Making of America Collection is a digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology.
The Dartmouth Vietnam Project The Dartmouth Vietnam Project (DVP) brings together members of the Dartmouth community to conduct, record, and preserve oral histories about the Vietnam War era (1950–1975).
Decoding the Civil War Decoding the Civil War's goal is to use the transcription and decoding of Civil War telegrams from The Thomas T. Eckert Papers.
From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents of American History This site is dedicated to the pre-World War I history of the United States of America and includes original documents, timelines, and more.
Papers of the War Department: 1740-1800 A project of the Center for History & New Media at George Mason University, Papers of the War Department 1784-1800 makes 42,000 documents of the early War Department accessible.

Benjamin Franklin Papers This Library of Congress collection contains 8,000 items spanning the years 1726 to 1907, with most dating from the 1770s and 1780s.
Burton Holmes Digital Archive Burton Holmes was the first person to combine travel stories, slide shows and motion pictures into documentary travel lectures, for which he coined the word “travelogue.” The collection includes more than 16,000 hand-painted 3×4” glass lantern slides made between 1887 and 1937.
Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia This website allows visitors to inspect, compare, and analyze two different eighteenth-century printings of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, and study a third modern annotated reading text.
The Occom Circle The Occom Circle is a scholarly digital edition of handwritten documents by and about Samson Occom (1727-1792), housed in Dartmouth College.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Digital Gateway SNCC focused on voter registration and on mounting a systemic challenge to the white supremacy that governed the country’s entrenched political, economic and social structures.
The Green Book View Green Books, travel guides for African Americans during the Civil Rights era.