Examples of Digital History

Algorithms/Digitizing

Doctored Lee Harvey Oswald photo
The original photograph depicting the shooting of JFK's assasin doctored in Photoshop.

The magic lens
Reading handwritten sources online. From a website based on a diary of 18th-century New England midwife. Based on the book The Midwife's Tale.


Databases

They Rule
Links between corporations--example of making an argument in a database form.

Without Sanctuary
A database of photographs and postcards of lynching in America.

Cultivating Pasadena
An online article that uses a "database narrative" to tell a story of Pasadena, California.

Face to Face
Exhibit of oral histories connecting Japanese Internment and September 11.


"Procedural" Website

Devices of Wonder
Explore objects from the Getty museum.


"Participatory" Websites

9/11 Digital Archive
An online archive that lets visitors submit their own stories of September 11 attacks.

Business Plan Archive
Archive of failed dot-com business projects and stories.

The Video Store Project
Survey of video store owners created for Ph.D. dissertation research.