Digital History @ Ball State University

Faculty Digital Scholarship

The following is a list of digital scholarly works undertaken by Department of History faculty at Ball State University. These born-digital projects employ a number of tools and take a variety of materials to address significant historical questions and communicate their interpretations in several new forms including digital audio, video, and text archives, and interactive apps and maps (alphabetical by scholar's last name):

James Connolly

2016-2017. The Wild West in the Heartland, Phase 1. Textual analysis/mapping project

2016-2017. Muncie Churches and Civic Life Oral History Project

2015-16. Virtual Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Simulation/Thematic research collection

2014-15. Muncie High School Consolidation Oral History Project

2012. Muncie Public Library Historic Documents Collection. Thematic research collection

2011. Virtual Middletown. Simulation/Game; Thematic research collection

2011. What Middletown Read. Database

2010. Changing Gears: The End of an Era. Digital narrative

2009. Middletown Women’s History Collection. Thematic research collection

2008. Muncie Post-Democrat Collection. Thematic research collection

2008. Muncie Economic Development Oral History Project. Thematic research collection

2006. Muncie Organized Labor Oral History Project. Thematic research collection

Jennifer DeSilva

2017-18. Early Modern Social Mobility: Mapping and Networking the De' Grassi Family of Bologna, 1400-1750 CE. Textual analysis/network visualization/mapping project

Michael Wm. Doyle

2015-2017. Ball State African-American Alumni Oral History Project, Phases I and II

2011-2013. Cantigny First Division Oral History Project, phase III. Thematic research collection

2009. Vietnam War Era Veterans Oral History Project. Thematic research collection

2008-2009. Cantigny First Division Oral History Project, phase II. Thematic research collection

2007-2008. Cantigny First Division Oral History Project, phase I. Thematic research collection

Ronald V. Morris

2014. Battle of Perryville Battlefield Tour Phone App. play.google Thematic research collection.

2013. Crossroads Connect: Digital 4th Grade Indiana History Textbook. Ebook.

2013. Indiana State Park App, play.google | Apple iTunes Thematic research collection.

2013. Children of the Sun. IOS tablet game for Indiana State Museum.

2013. A History Dear to Our Hearts. The Emily Kimbrough Historical District. Documentary film.

2012. The Underground Railroad in the Ohio River Valley. Simulation/Game

2012. Old Stories Made New: The World of George Rogers Clark. Documentary film.

2011. Morgan’s Raid. Simulation/Game
[Winner of the 2011 Indiana Historical Society Outstanding Project Award]

2011. Digital Archaeology. Simulation/Game

Douglas Seefeldt

2018. Buffalo Bill's Great Plains. Mapping project/thematic research collection

2015-17. Buffalo Bill's Rocky Mountain Empire. Mapping project/thematic research collection

2015-17. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West in England. Interactive scholarly work.

2015-16. Virtual Buffalo Bill’s Wild West. Simulation/Thematic research collection

2013. Cody Studies Digital Research Platform. Digital project

2012. “Horrible Massacre of Emigrants!!”: The Mountain Meadows Massacre in Public Discourse. Thematic research collection

2011. The William F. Cody Archive. Thematic research collection

2009. Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark. Interactive scholarly work

2007. Digital History Project. Digital project

2004. Biddle Edition Archive. Thematic research collection

2003. Lewis & Clark’s Charlottesville & Albemarle County, Virginia. Digital narrative

Kevin Smith

2007. Echoes of War: Stories from the Big Red One. Thematic Research Collection; Digital narrative
[Received two 2008 "Silver Telly" awards (highest level) in the "Education" and "Live Events" categories]

Faculty Digital Scholarship Grants and Awards

A chronological listing of grants awarded to Department of History faculty for the development of digital scholarship activities:

External Sources

Internal Programs