History—Digital Resources & Tools

A guide from the American Historical Association with links to a video of the Getting Started in Digital History workshop, other sessions and presentations, readings such as "What is Digital History?" and resources.

Using this UA Library guide, find more information about text mining, including library resources and other corpora that can be mined and tools to use.

Introduces various aspects of digital history, from examples of projects, information about technologies, exploration of copyright issues, and long-term access to digital history projects. Also available online.

Describes and demonstrates the ways Big Data can be explored to construct cultural heritage knowledge, for research and in teaching and learning. The companion website includes the full text of the final draft of the book, a discussion forum, and data files. See More Info.

Learn about digital history scholarship, from documenting to teaching to doing. Site also includes Project Reviews of digital history projects and examples of Student Projects.

Learn how to use digital tools and techniques from these lessons and tutorials.

Find teaching resources including sample assignments for Digital History from the American Historical Association's AHA Today.

Links to text collections that can be downloaded and used in text analysis and text analysis and topic modeling tools.

Use this tool for text analysis.

Use this tool, which includes word frequencies, ngrams, topic modeling, and visualizations, to explore the scholarly journals in the JSTOR database. Datasets can be downloaded.

Use this open source to publish digital scholarship, bringing together text and media.

Tell stories online using this tool to create maps alongside text, images, video, and more.

Publish exhibits with this free, open-source web publishing tool.

Use this open source tool to create interactive timelines.

Create timelines and maps.

Create interactive timelines embedded with images, videos, and links to web pages.

For data visualization.

Interactive visualization of Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums.

From an animation of historical events to an interactive exhibit about Reno's divorce industry, this Slate articles presents an array of digital history projects. A separate Slate article highlights "Five More Digital History Projects we loved in 2015."

"A look at the language of presidential inaugural addresses. The most-used words in each address appear in the interactive chart below, sized by number of uses. Words highlighted in yellow were used significantly more in this inaugural address than average."