The projects on this page are the outcome of our mission to build digital content and systems in order to generate and advance humanistic knowledge. They represent the ongoing, interdisciplinary digital humanities scholarship of CDRH staff, fellows, and affiliates.
Featured Projects The projects featured below were recently published or have had significant new updates.
African Poetry Digital Portal
The African Poetry Digital Portal is a resource for the study of African Poetry providing access to biographical information, news, images and documents.
Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive
Writing in the years after Reconstruction as white supremacy took new virulent forms, Charles W. Chesnutt addressed issues including race, identity, violence, and class.
COVE
COVE is a scholar-driven open-access platform that publishes both peer-reviewed material and "flipped classroom" student projects built with our online tools.
Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project
This project is a space for telling the stories of the American Indian children who attended Genoa, their communities, and their descendants.
Nebraska Newspapers
Nebraska Newspapers expands upon work in Chronicling America by presenting other historically significant newspapers from Nebraska.
Nebraska Stories of Humanity
This project aims to centralize access to the history of Nebraska Holocaust survivors and WWII liberators of Nazi camps in a collection of searchable stories in aggregate.
Open ONI
Open ONI is a community-maintained project to make historic American newspapers browsable and searchable on the web.
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom
This peer-reviewed digital humanities project reimagines how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive, race-conscious lens.
All Projects The projects below are organized alphabetically.
Across the Spectrum
Across the Spectrum provides an extensive searchable digital archive of John G. Neihardt's collected letters along with previously uncollected essays and reviews.
African Poetry Digital Portal
This portal is a resource for the study of African Poetry providing access to biographical information, news, images and documents.
Aida
The Aida research team explores applications of image analysis and machine learning in digital libraries of historic materials.
American Indian Treaties Portal
The American Indian Treaties Portal provides project-overlay-texts of American Indian treaties, peer-reviewed articles, and an original biography of Charles J. Kappler.
Animating History
Animating History is a project between historians, writers, and artists telling the stories of American history through animated films. Our mission is to connect the past with the present, fostering a deeper understanding of our nation's heritage.
Ardhi Initiative
The purview of this project is to investigate the 1850-1960 history of African land acquisitions, increasing the chances of re-discovering home-grown solutions
Army Officers' Wives
Army Officers' Wives narratives, photographs, commentary, and documents tell the significance of the experience of Army officers' wives on the Great Plains.
Austen Said
Austen Said: Patterns of Diction in Jane Austen's Major Novels explores individual speech and patterns of speech in Austen's six completed major novels.
Birds of Nebraska
Birds of Nebraska is an archive of history for birdlife in the state, with access to a great variety of newspaper articles and other sources from 1854 to 1923.
Broken Bow Land Office Homestead Records
This project seeks to preserve and provide wider access to the information stored in microfilm from the Broken Bow Land Office.
Cartas a la Familia
Cartas a la Familia / The Family Letters preserves, digitizes, and analyzes the correspondence of a Mexican American family that migrated from Zacatecas, Mexico.
Casting Digital Nets
Casting Digital Nets explores the long, strange journey of Lake Andes.
Charles Chesnutt Digital Archive
Writing in the years after Reconstruction as white supremacy took new virulent forms, Charles W. Chesnutt addressed issues including race, identity, violence, and class.
Civil War Washington
Civil War Washington is a digital humanities project that allows users to study, visualize, and theorize the complex changes in the city of Washington.
Cornhusker Marching Band History
Since its formation in 1879, through multiple names and uniforms and purposes, the marching band's history has been intertwined with a larger community.
COVE
COVE is a scholar-driven open-access platform that publishes both peer-reviewed material and "flipped classroom" student projects built with our online tools.
Cuban Battlefields
Cuban Battlefields provides a rich record of the Spanish-Cuban-American War, created to support the archeological investigation of the 1898 conflict.
Digging In
A prototype web site for research on Nebraska's immigrant trails, Digging In features the site report from a 2005 dig at the Beaver Creek Trail Crossing Site.
Digital Archaic Heraion Project
This project presents an early Greek temple excavated at Corfu, including more than 500 architectural fragments scanned in 3D.
Digital History Project
The purpose of the Digital History Project is to educate scholars and the public about the state of digital history as a discipline.
Elia Peattie
A digital archive based on the life and writings of Elia Peattie, an early Nebraska journalist, novelist, and playwright.
Envisaging the West
Envisaging the West is an electronic archive that reveals the evolution of Thomas Jefferson's thoughts on the West while planning the Lewis and Clark expedition.
Every Week Magazine
Every Week Magazine, published from 1915-1918, was a significant magazine phenomenon of its day, with a weekly circulation of 600,000 copies.
Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger
Fanny Fern in The New York Ledger explores one of the most successful periods in the career of newspaper columnist Fanny Fern.
14th-Century Oxford Theology
This projects seeks to make more of the works of English philosopher and theologian John Wyclif available online.
French 17
French 17 provides an annual survey of the work done each year in the general area of 17th-century French studies.
Genoa Indian School Digital Reconciliation Project
This project is a space for telling the stories of the American Indian children who attended Genoa, their communities, and their descendants.
Gilded Age Plains City
Gilded Age Plains City is a walk through the complex political, social, and cultural terrain of Lincoln, Nebraska.
The Good Person
The Good Person contains a representative collection of Yoruba proverbs compiled and translated by the late Oyekan Owomoyela.
Great Plains During World War II
The Great Plains During World War II explores civilian and military life in the Great Plains from September 1939 to August 1945.
History Harvest
The History Harvest is an open, digital archive of historical artifacts gathered from communities across the United States.
Loren Eiseley's Nebraska
This project focuses on Loren Eiseley, a writer and anthropologist who spent his formative years in Nebraska.
Images of Power in the Time of Louis XIV
This project illustrates how Louis XIV made use of images to spread the idea of monarchical power in the Seventeenth Century.
Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
This website makes available the text of the celebrated Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals, edited by Gary E. Moulton.
Keeping Data Alive
Keeping Data Alive is building workflows and tools to help researchers track components in procedural models to support research on alternate trajectories to urbanization.
Latin Works of John Wyclif
The Latin Works of John Wyclif seeks to make freely and publicly available the text of the Latin philosophical and theological writings of John Wyclif.
Livingstone Online
Livingstone Online is a digital museum and library that allows users to encounter the written and visual legacy of the famous Victorian explorer David Livingstone.
Mari Sandoz Digital Archive
The Mari Sandoz Digital Archive will be a freely available web resource devoted to the work of one of Nebraska's most notable novelists and historians.
Mountain Meadows Massacre
This digital history project examines public discourse surrounding the mass murder of 120 Arkansas emigrants by Mormon settlers in southwest Utah.
Nebraska Authors
Nebraska Authors celebrates individual writers and the community of Nebraska authors.
Nebraska Newspapers
Nebraska Newspapers expands upon work in Chronicling America by presenting other historically significant newspapers from Nebraska.
Nebraska Public Documents
Nebraska Public Documents provides free public access to digitized historic annual reports of state agencies in Nebraska
Nebraska Stories of Humanity
This project aims to centralize access to the history of Nebraska Holocaust survivors and WWII liberators of Nazi camps in a collection of searchable stories in aggregate.
Nebraskaland Magazine Digital Archive
This digital archive allows you to browse the pages of Nebraska's favorite hunting, fishing, and conservation magazine.
O Say Can You See
O Say Can You See: Early Washington, D.C., Law & Family examines and visualizes the social world of the nation's capital by encoding and analyzing legal records.
Ohio Hopewell
Ohio Hopewell: Ancient Crossroads of the American Midwest is dedicated to preserving archaeological collections of the Hopewell Culture of the Ohio River Valley.
Omaha Indian Heritage
This project is an online catalogue of tribal resources drawn from international sources.
Omaha & Ponca Digital Dictionary
Omaha & Ponca Digital Dictionary is an important step toward preserving the endangered languages of the Omaha and Ponca tribes.
Omaha Language Learning
Omaha Language Learning website provides access to Omaha language materials, both old and new. It promotes the Omaha language, culture, and community.
One More Voice
One More Voice, a work of digital humanities scholarship, focuses on recovering non-European contributions from nineteenth-century British imperial and colonial archives.
Open ONI
Open ONI is a community-maintained project to make historic American newspapers browsable and searchable on the web.
Petitioning for Freedom
This project plans to document the use of habeas corpus by creating a relational database of writ of civil habeas corpus petitions in the American West from 1812 through 1924.
Plains Humanities Alliance
Plains Humanities Alliance is dedicated to preserving and promoting the cultural heritage of the Great Plains region.
Poetry from the Plains
Poetry from the Plains features poetry that explores topics central to Nebraskans and other residents of the Great Plains.
Prairie States Forestry Project Digital Archive
This digital archive documents the tree-planting efforts associated with the New Deal's massive Prairie States Forestry Project between 1935 and 1942.
Quills & Feathers
Quills & Feathers project is a documentation of the literary relationship between Great Plains humans and birds.
Radical Scatters
Radical Scatters presents documents carrying over one hundred fragmentary texts composed by Dickinson in the final decades of her life.
Railroads and the Making of Modern America
This project explores the dynamic social change that came between 1850 and 1900 with the growth of railroads.
Recovery Hub for Women Writers
The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers supports projects recovering the work of women writers by providing digital access or extending them with digital tools.
Revitalizing and Enhancing MayaArch3D
Revitalizing and Enhancing MayaArch3D is revitalizing and enhancing the 3D WebGIS component of the MayaArch3D Project.
Roz Payne Sixties Archive
The Roz Payne Sixties Archive is a free educational archive of political artifacts from the 1960s-era, collected and saved over the years by Roz Payne.
Salmon Pueblo Archaeological Research Collection
The goal of SPARC is to preserve, publish, and promote understanding of the ancient cultural center of Salmon Pueblo.
Scholarly Editing
Scholarly Editing is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal committed to the development and advancement of all aspects of textual and documentary editing
The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk
The Tar Baby and the Tomahawk looks at the intersection of race and childhood between 1880 and 1939 as viewed through children’s literature.
Trans-Mississippi
Trans-Mississippi & International Exposition Digital Archive captures the ambitions, controversies, criticisms, cultural attitudes, and technologies of the 1890s.
Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom
This peer-reviewed digital humanities project reimagines how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive, race-conscious lens.
The Walt Whitman Archive
The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman's vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible.
The Willa Cather Archive
The Willa Cather Archive is an ambitious endeavor to create a rich, useful, and widely accessible site for the study of Willa Cather's life and writings.
The William F. Cody Archive
The William F. Cody Archive provides an invaluable record of the late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century American national development.
Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
This project contains the letters and writings of Higginson from 1865-1910.