Digital History Tools and Resources: An Initial List

I am working on a list of digital resources for historians. At this point both the list and the categories are fluid, but I wanted something up to date that would also include AT tools. If you can think of others, let me know. It goes without saying that listing things does not constitute endorsing…

MSU Vietnam Group Archive

MSU Vietnam Group Archive (http://vietnamproject .archives.msu.edu/): roughly 80,000 pages of digitized documents, maps, and images, dating from 1955-1962, when Michigan State University led a range of US-funded technical assistance programs in South Vietnam for the purpose of producing a stable non-Communist ally in Southeast Asia (2015-). The project was funded by a grant from the…

Building a new website

I have been doing online projects for more than 25 years, but have always failed to do my own website.  It was difficult to find time to build something for myself when there was always other projects to tend to as well as servers and new networks to build. Back in 1994, I set p…

What America Ate

What America Ate is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant based project that allowed us to bring together the WPA materials collected during the Great Depression in the United States as well as Community Cook Books of the period.  See the project description site for details <https://matrix.msu.edu/what-america-ate> and the Project site <https://whatamericaate.org>.  For…

Enslaved.org

Our project Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade has been funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Foundation for the Humanities (NEH) as well as generous donors.  To see more about the project go to http://enslaved.org Description Enslaved.org is a major initiative to focus on and recover those involved in the historical…