Project Reviews

This section provides reviews written by graduate students on a variety of digital historical projects. To have your project reviewed, or if you have any suggestions for projects to review, please contact William G. Thomas at wgt@unl.edu or Douglas Seefeldt at dseefeldt2@unl.edu.

Recent additions to the Project Reviews are indicated by a .

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Bethlehem Digital History Project by James Talarico and Julia Maserjian

Between The Tides by Matthew Booker

Blue Velvet: Re-Dressing New Orleans in Katrina's Wake by David Theo Goldberg

Bracero History Archive by Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University, the Institute of Oral History at the University of Texas at El Paso, and the National Museum of American History


Civil Rights Movement Veterans by Bruce Hartford

Colonial Latin America by Peter Bakewell

Critical Habitat by the Spatial History Project in conjunction with the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University


The Detroit Church Project by David Baily and Mark Kelly

Digital Harlem: Everyday Life 1915-1930 by Shane White, Stephen Garton, Graham White, and Stephen Robertson

Digital History: Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Research by Steven Mintz, Sara McNeil, and John Lienhard

DoHistory by Richard P. Rogers, Kristi Barlow, and Laurie Kahn-Leavitt


Early Americas Digital Archive by Ralph Bauer

The Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago by Janice L. Reiff, Ann Durkin Keating, and James R. Grossman


Famous Trials: The Salem Witchcraft Trials by Douglas O. Linder

Famous Trials: "The Scottsboro Boys" Trials by Douglas O. Linder

The Flint Sit-Down Strike by MATRIX at Michigan State University


Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives by Center for History and New Media, George Mason University


Henry III Fine Rolls Project: A window into English history, 1216-1272 by King's College, London's Department of History and Centre for Computing in the Humanities


Killer Entertainments by Jennifer Terry and Raegan Kelly


Lewis and Clark Across Missouri by by James D. Harlan

Lincoln/Net by Drew VandeCreek

The Lost Museum by American Social History Project, CUNY Graduate Center and Center for New Media, George Mason University


Making of America by University of Michigan

Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe by Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

Malcolm X: A Research Site by Abdul Alkalimat


"On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession" by Eric Gary Anderson in Southern Spaces


The Parallel History Project on Cooperative Securityby International Relations and Security Network at the Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

The Proceedings of the Old Bailey by Tim Hitchcock, Robert Shoemaker, Clive Emsley, and Sharon Howard

Prostitution in Philadelphia: Arrests 1912-1918 by the Spatial History Project at Stanford University


Redlining Richmond by the Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond


The Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project by James N. Gregory

Shaping the West by the Spatial History Project in conjunction with the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University


Television News of the Civil Rights Era, 1950-1970 by William G. Thomas

Terrain of History by Zephyr Frank, et al., the Spatial History Project at Stanford University

Territorial Kansas Online by Patricia Michaelis

Texas Slavery Project by Andrew J. Torget

"Trying the Dark: Mammoth Cave and the Racial Imagination, 1839-1869" by Peter West in Southern Spaces


Upset! Harry S Truman's Whistle Stop Campaign Remembered by Christyn Elley


Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870-1920 by Sara Toton

Virtual Jamestown by Crandall A. Shifflett

Virtual Jamestown by Crandall A. Shifflett

Virtual Jamestown by Crandall A. Shifflett

Voting America: United States Politics, 1840-2008 by Andrew J. Torget


The Walt Whitman Archive by Ed Folsom and Kenneth M. Price

Who Killed William Robinson? Race, Justice and Settling the Land by John Lutz and Ruth Sandwell

Who Killed William Robinson? Race, Justice and Settling the Land by John Lutz and Ruth Sandwell

The Willa Cather Archive by Andrew Jewell

The Works of Jonathan Edwards Online by Harry S. Stout, Kenneth P. Minkema, and Caleb J.D. Maskell