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Curious about activating your historical research with digital humanities tools? Check out the Digital History resources and inspirational projects below.

Digital History Resources

Center for Digital Humanities (UCLA)
Digital Humanities courses and research at UCLA.

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
At UNL. Advances interdisciplinary, collaborative research, and offers forums, workshops and research fellowships for faculty and students in the area of digital scholarship.

Center for History and New Media at George Mason
CHNM uses digital media and technology to preserve and present history online, transform scholarship across the humanities, and advance historical education.

Digital History Project
Provides a directory of digital history scholars, syllabi, interviews, reviews of digital history projects, etc.

Global Perspectives on Digital History
This site aggregates and selects material from a range of sources (websites of scholars, institutional sites, blogs, Twitter, etc.) for stories about Digital History.

American Philosophical Association
Free and open historical datasets provided by the APA

The Programming Historian
From Harvard. Offers free online tutorials on digital methods, tools, and techniques geared towards historians.

Virginia Center for Digital History
The Virginia Center for Digital History (VCDH) advances historical scholarship and facilitates active dialog between scholars, researchers and educators in the digital age.

World Historical Gazetteer
A collection of content and services that permit world historians, their students, and the general public to do spatial and temporal reasoning and visualization in a data rich environment at global and trans-regional scales.

Digital Liberal Arts at Macalester

Interested in learning more about digital humanities initiatives at Macalester? Check out Digital Liberal Arts (DLA). Many of the projects take shape as works of art, language study, environmental activism, archival research, literary exploration, mapping, community engagement, and more. View past projects.