It can be overwhelming for US-based digital humanities scholars to navigate through the National Endowment for the Humanities’s(NEH) extensive list of funding opportunities to find the right program to fund their digital projects. Since the Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) began in 2008, complementary grant programs have expanded while others e…[Read more]

We all agree that the material culture evidence held by museums and historical societies is critical in
understanding our pasts. Objects speak for individuals whose lives were not documented in other
ways, and can speak emotions unavailable in the written record. The volume of material culture
produced today is more sizable than ever. Which…[Read more]

This guide details each phase of creating Histories of the NationalMall, mallhistory.org, including planning, interpretative approach, user experience and design, testing, and outreach efforts of the project team. Histories of the National Mall is a digital public history project developed by the RoyRosenzweig Center for History and New Media at…[Read more]

History museums are publishing collections online, often, without offering better ways to connect these collections to the many stories they can tell. Descriptions and online narratives still carry authoritative voices. This article explore some ways that history museums can use online digital spaces more intentionally to highlight multiple…[Read more]