Recent Projects

History Engine

The History Engine is a project that gives students the opportunity to practice the craft of history by researching, writing, and publishing what we call “episodes”-concise micro-histories about small moments in American history. Collected together on the History Engine site, the result is an ever-growing history archive that paints a wide-ranging portrait of life in the United States throughout its history. The History Engine is currently being used in classrooms a number of universities and colleges throughout the country.

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Voting America

Voting America examines the evolution of presidential politics in the United States across the span of American history. The project offers a wide spectrum of cinematic and interactive visualizations of how Americans voted at the county level in presidential elections from the beginning of the modern party system through the modern day. Here you can see historical developments in American voting patterns as they moved across the landscape of the United States during the past 164 years from a variety of perspectives, such as presidential election voting by county, counties won in popular vote, third-party voting, margins of victory etc.

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