The Digital History Research Portal, a product of the Fenwick Library Reference Department, University Libraries, George Mason University, is designed to support advanced students of history in researching digital history and in completing digital history projects.

  • Resources: Discover research about digital history and digital humanities.
  • Tools: Find tools to assist in completing digital history projects.
  • Digital Humanities Centers: Connect with other digital historians around the world.
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Explore travel times and costs in the Roman World using ORBIS

Explore travel times and costs in the Roman World using ORBIS

A team of historians and information technology specialists at Stanford University have created ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman World, which reconstructs the time cost and financial expense of travel in the ancient world.  The model accounts for different modes of travel and seasonal variations for 751 sites in the Roman Empire.  [...]

Hidden Images Provide Clues to the "Lost Colony"

Hidden Images Provide Clues to the “Lost Colony”

Using infrared light, X-ray spectroscopy, and other imaging techniques, historians have revealed markings on an Elizabethan map that may provide clues to the fate of the “Lost Colony” in North Carolina’s Outer Banks.  The 100 or so English settlers disappeared from the Tidewater coast of North Carolina in the late 1500s. According to the New [...]