American history and culture
About
Collaboration
About
Collaboration

Immigrants in the Coal Fields
The exhibit used multimedia elements from Appalachian collections, including audiovisual resources, maps, manuscripts and oral histories, plus some newer, dynamic elements, courtesy of the journalism longreads app Creatavist to explore the history of immigrants in Appalachia, particularly those who worked in the coalmines.

Adams Timeline
Spanning the years 1735 to 1889, the Adams Timeline is a searchable collection of key events and happenings in the lives of 2nd U.S. President John, First Lady Abigail Adams and three succeeding generations of their immediate family. Members of the Adams family were deeply involved a

Martha Berry Digital Archive and Crowd-Ed
The Martha Berry Digital Archive (MBDA) project is publishing the writings of early 20th-century educator and philanthropist Martha Berry. To achieve project goals, MBDA has developed and is currently testing a participatory metadata editing tool which enables Dublin Core metadata editing in the Omeka platform.

History Engine
The History Engine (http://historyengine.richmond.edu) is a pedagogically oriented project that captures and organizes “episodes”—concise narratives about often local events (e.g. the burning of abolitionist literature in Charleston in 1836 or the reaction of Chinese immigrants in New Orleans in 1911 to an imperial decree instructing them to cut off their queues)—about the past written by undergraduate students. Instructors at any university are welcome and encouraged to use the site in their courses.