
A directory of selected digital history projects, especially focused on early modern history, with special sections devoted to toolkits for digital historians and the Enlightenment.
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Digital history projects
- Benjamin Colbert, Women’s Travel Writing, 1780-1840, www.wlv.ac.uk/btw
- Center of Digital Humanities Research (CoDHR) at Texas A&M University, directed at Auburn University, https://18thconnect.org/
- Cultures of Knowledge, Early Modern Letters Online, http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
- John Delaney, Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of a Northwest Passage, website at Princeton University Library, 2004, https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/northwest-passage/titlepage.htm and Strait Through: Magellan to Cook & the Pacific, https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/maps/websites/pacific/contents.html
- European History Online – EGO, published by the Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz, http://ieg-ego.eu/
- Emory University, created by David Eltis, Martin Halbert, Slave voyages, https://www.slavevoyages.org/
- Alexander Huber, ed., Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive, http://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/about/index.shtml
- Institute of Historical Research, Layers of London, https://www.layersoflondon.org/
- MIT, Visualizing Cultures, image-driven scholarship, https://visualizingcultures.mit.edu/home/index.html
- Joseph A. Mussulman, created by, Discovering Lewis & Clark, https://www.lewis-clark.org, managed by Lewis & Clark Fort Mandan Foundation
- University of Amesterda, Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism – ERNiE, https://ernie.uva.nl/
- University of Chicago, The ARTFL Project, L’Histoire des deux Indes, https://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/raynal-search, and Visualizing Raynal, http://cdhr-projects.anu.edu.au/raynal/ (the latter designed and developed by Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe of ANU Design)
- University of Groningen, dir. Sabrina Corbellini, Angelo Cattaneo, The Global Eye: Dutch, Spanish, and Portuguese Maps in the Collections of the Grand Duke Cosimo III de’ Medici, https://theglobaleye.org/
- University of Nebraska Press and Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, https://lewisandclarkjournals.unl.edu/
- University of Trieste, dir. Guido Abbattista, GlobalSeaRoutes: A Historical Geodatabase, https://www.openstarts.units.it/retrieve/142171
Enlightenment special section
- Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, Electronic Enlightenment Project, http://www.e-enlightenment.com
- Simon Burrows, Mark Curran, Vincent Hiribarren, Sarah Kattau and Henry Merivale, The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe Project, 1769-1794 – FBTEE Project (statistical data partly from Robert Darnton, Corpus of Clandestine Literature in France, 1769-1789 (New York: Norton, 1995), http://fbtee.uws.edu.au/stn/
- Robert Morrissey, general ed., Glenn Roe, assoc. ed., ARTFL Encyclopédie, https://encyclopedie.uchicago.edu
- Stuart Nicol and Karen Howie, eds, Circulating Enlightenment – the open-access site for The Andrew Millar Project, http://www.millar-project.ed.ac.uk/
- Luisa Simonutti, Alessia Castagnino, Rolando Minuti, Ann Thomson, 18th Century Translators database, https://www.eutec-project.it
- Stanford University, Mapping the Republic of Letters, republicofletters.stanford.edu
Toolkits
- The programming historian, lessons in English, https://programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/
- Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig, Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2006) http://chnm.gmu.edu/digitalhistory/index.php
- Jack Dougherty and Kristen Nawrotzki, eds, Writing History In the Digital Age (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013), https://doi.org/10.3998/dh.12230987.0001.001, free online edition https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/nz806057k
- Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, eds, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019 (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019), https://dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu/projects/debates-in-the-digital-humanities-2019
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